《印第安杀手》中的犯罪种族想象与印第安性超越

The Imaginative Crime of Race and Transcendence of Indianness in Indian Killer

谢尔曼·阿莱克西的小说《印第安杀手》通过一起神秘的连环杀人案来审视犯罪和种族之间的关系。这部作品以侦探小说的形式揭露了追踪无名杀手身份过程中呈现出的话语模式与权力关系,表明所谓的“印第安杀手”只是美国主流社会对印第安人带有偏见的种族想象。故事结束时杀手身份依然成谜,此情节设置颠覆了白人对印第安人的狭隘想象,也激发了印第安人对刻板身份符号的质疑。小说还立足于时代,对印第安保守主义思想进行了反驳,表达了对封闭印第安性的超越,并对如何审视族裔性进行了积极探索。

Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie examines the relationship between crime and race through a series of mysterious killing events.In the form of a detective novel,this work uncovers discursive patterns and power relationships in the process of tracking the identity of the unknown killer,indicating that the so-called Indian killer"'is just a product of the racial imagination of American mainstream society,characterized by prejudice against the Indians.At the end of the story,the identity of the killer is still a mystery.This plot subverts the white people's narrow imagination of the Indians,and inspires the Indians to question the stereotypical symbol of their identity.Rooted in the social context of contemporary America,the novel also refutes Indian conservatism and attempts to seek a solution to closed ethnicity.