An Ecocritical Interpretation Of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

As a second-generation writer of the"Indian Literature ARmenaissance", Louise Erdrich has taken significant role in the erican literature, and her contribution to the American ethnic literature is quite outstanding, for winning valuable prizes many timesAliwke the National Book Critics Circle Award and six-time O. Henry ards, which make her as honorable as William Faulkner, who has great effect on her. Louise Erdrich's father is German American and mhear mother is French Chippewa, and this specialty of the identity kes her works rich and complicated. On the one hand, as a female writer who is deeply influenced by the traditional American Indians wcuolmture, Louise Erdrich clearly expresses the relationship between en and nature in her novel; on the other hand, as a bicultural Awmriter, she deeply exposes the relationship and conflicts between e rican Indians culture and white culture.Louise Erdrich is also one of the most productive writers and her works have drawn widespread critical attention. Love Medicine is one ionft e the most attractive masterpieces. This paper will make an rpretation of Love Medicine to reveal its ecocritical connotation through ecocritical perspective. To be more specific, the author tries to present the rich ecological wisdom and the relationship between the environment and the racial experience by the interpretation of Love Medicine from the approaches of ecofeminism and environmental justice, so as to enrich the study of Louise Erdrich. Firstly, the author exposes the idea that the foundation of the harmony between human beings and the nature is the environmental justice between different races through the analysis of the white government's cultural colonization to the American Indians. Furthermore, as a close connection between the nature and the American Indians especially the women is revealed in this novel, the author will make a comparison of the views of nature between the whites and the American Indians to indicate that people should place anthropocentrism on one side and get more ecological consciousness. In the end, this paper makes a conclusion that the precondition of harmony is the equality between different races, and between men and women, but that's not enough. It's more important to deal with the relationship between man and nature by using the ecocentrism principle. Under the circumstances of global environmental crisis, the ecological wisdom and consciousness of the American Indians should be eulogized for the purpose of creating a sustainable future so as to protect the Mother Earth and maintain the harmony between nature and human beings.