Eco Feministic Connotation In Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

This paper will make an interpretation of the novel “Love Medicine” to expose its Eco feministic connotation through Eco critical perspective. Ecofeminism is articulating a complex ideology based on the connection between feminism and ecology, drawing parallels between the domination of nature and the domination of women and between degradation of the environment and injustice based on gender. It also promotes the establishment of a spiritual network founded on nature based religious (such as native religious, paganism and witchcraft) that focus on female power. As a Native American, Louise Erdrich, faced many reservation problem. They lived with nature and beyond nature. Women also combined together nature and themselves with effective

Howard could be a young Lipsha, with his oddity and innate cleverness. Yet Erdrich's description of the broken home Howard lives in paints a bleak picture of his future prospects. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Howard's reply to police at the door: he runs to them, yelling that his father is

Lipsha asks Gerry to tell him whether or not he slayed the trooper; though Gerry reveals the truth, Lipsha says that he cannot tell the reader. This constituent of hyperrealism at the end of the novel shows how the reader, in purposefully interpreting and reacting to the events of the description, has also been a player in the story. Lipsha's genuine concern that the reader might reveal the truth makes the entire novel look even more realistic than it already has. Such wraps and ambiguities, after all, are necessary to everyday