The Presumption of Individualism in Erdrich's The Plague of Doves
The presumption of individualism is an important symptom of American colonial hegemony.Through a study of the discourse of individualism in the novel The Plague of Doves by the contemporary American Indian writer Louise Erdrich,this paper explores the destruction of humanity by the arrogant and paranoid individualism of the colonists driven by the utilitarianism of capital,the distortion of humanity and moral twist caused by the expansion of capital's desire,and the spiritual redemption and healing of the protagonist in the solitary aesthetic of music in three.extreme individualistic dimensions-the presumption of understanding,taste,and that of practical interest-to reveal the author's concern for the silenced and denied history of the massacred indigenous people,her resentment for the erased historical memory and her rethinking of contemporary American colonial oppression.
Louise ErdrichThe Plague of Dovespresumption of understandingpresumption of tastepresumption of practical interest
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