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Methodology

Primary Text(s?)

Secondary Texts

The concern of gynocritics according to Abrams is,

"to identify what are taken to be the distinctively feminine subject matters in literature written by women...to uncover in literary history a female tradition...to show that there is a distinctive feminine mode of experience or 'subjectivity,' in thinking, feeling, valuing, in perceiving oneself and the outer world" (236).

Textual Analysis

"What you saying there, woman. Hey!" King shouted, filling the kitchen with the jagged tear of his voice. "When you talk to my relatives have a little respect." He put his arms up and shoved at her breasts," (Love Medicine, 33).

Primary

  • Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine (2009 edition)

Secondary

  • Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich by Beidler and Barton
  • A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams
  • Shannon Speed and Lynn Stephen's Indigenous Women and Violence
  • The Routeledge Introduction to Native American Literature by Drew Lopenzina

"I was rippling gold. My breasts were bare and my nipples flashed and winked. Diamonds tipped them. I could walk through windows. She was at my feet, swallowing the glass after each step I took. I broke through another and another, The glass she swallowed ground and cut until her starved insides were only a subtle dust. And then she was only a black rag that flapped off, snagged in a bobwire, hung there for an age, and finally rotted into the breeze," (54).

Conclusion/Questions?

Thesis

Old Thesis:

This objectification continues on today through various channels of oppression. From restrictive immigration policies which trap Indigenous women in cycles of imprisonment and poverty to the longstanding western tradition of downplaying acts of violence against Indigenous women, and even still the underrepresentation of Indigenous women in western literature, the structure of oppression against indigenous women is a monstrous continuing machine waiting to be deconstructed. Fortunately, there are voices ringing out from every corner of the continent retelling traditional Native American stories but also creating new narratives to share with the world and bring attention to the struggles, lives, and dreams of young and emerging Native American writers. More specifically, emerging female Native American Writers are creating a wide range of narrative works which adds to the growing voices fighting for representation.

Revised Thesis:

By applying the goals of Gynocritics to Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, I will seek to identify themes of femininity, identify female traditions present in the novel through Native American generations, and uncover the distinctive modes of feminine experience. Edrich's themes of feminity will be compared to the discourse between sovereignty and feminism in Native American activism to show that these two movements are inseparable.

Gynocriticism of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

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