西姆斯殖民地罗曼司中的美国性与印第安性

Americanness and Indianness in William Gilmore Simms’s Colonial Romances

美国南方作家威廉·吉尔摩·西姆斯的殖民地罗曼司中体现出具有种族包容性的美国性,而非带有强烈种族主义色彩的美国主义,也呈现出较为真实的印第安性。西姆斯将美国性与印第安性之间的相互影响和作用,以白人与印第安人之间的关系为载体予以呈现。在其颇具前瞻性的浪漫书写之下,一方面,美国性侵蚀了印第安性;另一方面,它们也得以融合共存,成为其构建美国理想社会秩序的有益探索。

The colonial romances of the Southern writer William Gilmore Simms embody the Americanness with racial tolerance and a comparatively authentic Indianness instead of Americanism with strong racist overtones.Simms represents the mutual influence and interaction of Americanness and Indianness through the relationship between the white people and the Native Americans.Under his prospective and romantic writing,Americanness erodes Indianness on one hand and the two coexists with each other on the other,which becomes an useful exploration for the writer to construct an ideal social order in America.