摘要
路易丝·厄德里克的《鸽灾》《圆屋》和《拉罗斯》可被解读为美国印第安成长小说三部曲。厄德里克为齐佩瓦青少年描绘了两条可能的成长路径:一条是迎合主流社会“想象”的通往幻灭的成长之路,另一条是实现精神成长的“理想化”成长之路。厄德里克书写“理想化”成长主题的主要策略是强调齐佩瓦部落对个体成长的促进作用,包括以良师、益友和社区等有形的方式参与个体成长,和以口述故事、部落信仰和部落正义观等无形的方式影响个体成长。通过在成长小说中融入印第安元素,厄德里克丰富了成长小说这一体裁;以“理想化”成长之路来对抗“想象”的成长之路,体现了她鲜明的政治立场。
Louise Erdrichs three novels,The Plague of Doves,The Round House,and LaRose can be read as a trilogy of Native American Bildungsromane.Erdrich draws two possible growth paths for Chippewa adolescents.The one imagined by the mainstream society only leads them to disillusion.The other,featuring idealization,directs them to Bildung.Erdrichs main strategy to express the theme of idealized initiation is to emphasize the roles assumed by Chippewa Indians in the adolescentsgrowth.Chippewa Indians witness the growth of the adolescents as mentors,friends,and communities in a visible way,and meanwhile,they exert an influence with oral stories,Chippewa spiritual perspectives,and tribal views of justice in a less visible manner.Through the trilogy,Erdrich not only enriches the genre of the Bildungsroman by introducing Native American elements but also expresses her political stance by using the idealized initiation to counter the imagined one.
出处
《英美文学研究论丛》
2023年第1期168-179,共12页
English and American Literary Studies
