1. Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine (1984, 1993)
Ramon Saldivar
Stanford University

2. Louise Erdrich (1954- ) Novels
Love Medicine. New York, Holt, 1984; expanded edition, Holt, National Book Critics Circle Award
The Beet Queen. New York, Holt, 1986.
Tracks. New York, Holt, and London, Hamish Hamilton, 1988.
The Crown of Columbus, with Michael Dorris. New York and London, HarperCollins, 1991.
Short Stories
The Bingo Palace. London, Flamingo, and New York, HarperCollins, 1994.
Tales of Burning Love. New York, HarperCollins, 1996.
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3. Tradition of American Indian Literature
Love Medicine and the traditions of Native American fiction
Concern with origins, marginality, Otherness
Historical relations between groups
Conflict with institutional authority
Return to the reservation
LM as a recasting of the tradition
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4. June Kashpaw as the absent center of LM
“The snow fell deeper that Easter than it had in forty years, but June walked over it like water and came home” LM 7
Who is June Kashpaw?
Who/What killed June Kashpaw?
Georg Lukács, Theory of the Novel
The novel as a form expresses:
“transcendental homelessness”
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5. Medicine, Love Medicine, and the Pharmakon
Jacques Derrida, Dissemination
Medicine: Pharmakos
Healing drug and philtre that is:
Remedy
Poison
LM 241,
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