Love, Power and Respect : Marie's Empowerment in Erdrich's Love Medicine

• Main Author: Behr, Nina
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Högskolan i Gävle, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap 2009
• Subjects: Louise Erdrich; Love Medicine; women; power; empowerment; Native American Indian; Catholic; religion; sociology of religion; litteraturvetenskap; Specific Languages; Studier av enskilda språk
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4802

The essay studies the character Marie's search for empowerment in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. As a mixed-blood she has difficulty to find respect within the white community because she is considered Native American Indian. However, the Native American Indian community sees her as ´dirty and lowlife´due to her whiteness. She tries different strattegies to form an identity and to find love, power and respect. In the convent she wants to be the best Catholic and find respect within the white community whilst later in life she returns to her Native American Indian tribe where she searches for respect throught marriage and motherhood. The theory used is sociology of religion.