印第安文学与多元文化的融合

An Analysis of the Combination Between American Indian Literature and Multi-culture

印第安人作为北美最早的居民,创造了辉煌的印第安文学传统。当代美国印第安女作家路易丝·厄德里奇的《爱之药》探讨了回归印第安文化传统、追寻族裔文化身份的主题,这也是贯穿当代美国印第安作家作品的主题。《爱之药》分析了深受主流社会影响的当代印第安人困顿混乱的生活状态,为现代化进程中的印第安种族指出生存的必由之路,即维护族裔文化,回归部落传统,正视社会现实,融入多元文化。从印第安文学的复兴及其发展现状来看,美国印第安文学必将成为多元文化中重要的组成部分。

Because of being the earliest settlers of the North America, the Indians created the splendid Indian literary tradition. The studies of Indian literary traditions concern the affirmation of the starting period of American literature, and it is also one of the important aspects of the studies of the origin of American literature. In Love Medicine from Louise Erdrich who is the American Indian author, the theme is mainly the cultural regression and cultural identity for the Native Americans. Returning to traditional Native culture is the theme that runs through the works by contemporary Native American authors. The novel demonstrated the perplexity life of the contemporary Indians influenced by the mainstream society and the way for the Indians in the modernization is to protect national cuhure, return to the tribe tradition and face the social reality, combine the multi-culture. Based on its renaissance and recent development, Native American literature will become the important part in the multi-culture.