Love Medicine (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Erdrich
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: 1934-1984
- Setting: A North Dakota Indian reservation and surrounding towns
- Principal Characters: Marie Lazarre Kashpaw, Lulu Nanapush Lamartine, June Morrissey Kashpaw, Albertine Johnson, Nector Kashpaw, Gerry Nanapush, Gordie Kashpaw, Lipsha Morrissey, King Kashpaw
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism, Family literature, Adventure
- Subjects: Culture, Blizzards, Family or family life, Tradition, Prisons, Twentieth century, Nature, Prostitution or prostitutes, Dreams, Poverty or poor people, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Native Americans or American Indians, Storytelling, Adultery, Multiculturalism, Death or dying, Illegitimacy, Spiritualism, Lifestyles, Intermarriage, Convents or nunneries
- Locales: Chippewa Indian Reservation
Form and Content
The novel Love Medicine is told as a series of interrelated narratives, several of which appeared as short fiction in magazines such as Ms., Kenyon Review, Atlantic Monthly, and North American Review. Although many of the novel’s sections can stand alone as individual stories, it is the cumulative effect of these stories that gives the book its power and shape as a novel. Narrated by eleven different characters from two Indian families living in North Dakota, Love Medicine documents the encroachment of white civilization on...
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