01:358:205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Louise Erdrich, List Of Watchmen Characters, Reproductive Rights
13 Nov 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich (2017)
Female characters to date in our course
Eve initiates apocalypse
- Edwards/Graham: none
- Canticle: Rachel, dying mom w/ radioactive child
- Rapture: Sharon, kills child
- Godot: none
- Invasion: Becky, helpless
- Angels: Harper, Angel, Ethel, homeless woman
- Watchmen: silk spectre, scantily-clad, sexualized, sexually assaulted
- War of worlds: none
- Burnt shadows: Hiroko, Ilse
- Night of the Living Dead: screaming, crying, traumatized, helpless, sexualized,
dependent on men
Themes/questions?
- Right to have a child and have it not be taken away
- Spin on right to have an abortion
- Discussion of reproductive rights always leads back to religion
- Author made main character unlikeable
- Not a cardboard cutout figure
- Women allowed to not be perfect? Progress?
- Dark history of what colonizers have done with Native American children
- Eugenics
- Danger in race
- Only white ppl on tv
- Doctor asks about ethnic background
What is the future home of the living God?
- 3 things:
- Barren lot
- Sign for the church of the living god
- Soon to be built
- Evangelical street corner church
- Womb
- Complicates it when put into the context of abortion
- World baby is born into
Lily of the Mohawks
- First native american saint
- Canonized 2012
- Scars disappear after death
