【作者】 杨敏；

【导师】 赵文书；

【作者基本信息】 南京大学 ， 英语语言文学， 2014， 硕士

【摘要】 从20世纪90年代开始,美国印第安文学出现了一股新浪潮：它致力于更真实地展现当代印第安人的生存状况；关注点转向了印第安人的城市化问题,视野也更加全球化。露易丝·厄德里克的小说《羚羊妻》正属于这股新的印第安文学浪潮,并深入探讨了当代都市中的混血印第安人居间的生存状态。借助霍米巴巴关于居间状态和文化杂糅性的理论,本论文试图论述：尽管居间状态给城市印第安人带来了许多困扰,却也为他们提供了新的可能性,去打破以往白人塑造的传统印第安人形象,从而建立一个杂糅的当代印第安文化,并更好地融入当代美国社会。而且,这种杂糅的印第安文化是灵活的并处于不断变化之中,因为在杂糅的城市空间中,在文化冲突、交流、融合的动态过程中,印第安文化也在不断发展和变化。本论文以两个历史问题为出发点研究厄德里克小说《羚羊妻》中的文化居间状态：印第安历史上的种族通婚现象和美国政府对印第安人的重新安置计划。以上两个因素均在不同程度上导致了小说中城市印第安人的种族混杂性。上述讨论也为探讨城市中混血印第安人居间的生存状态奠定了基础。由于其种族混杂性,城市印第安人处于印第安文化传统和非印第安文化传统的双重影响之下,却无法完全真正地融入其中任何一方。尽管如此,居间状态对城市印第安人又是一种优势,使他们可以在城市中建立一种新的、杂糅的印第安文化。论文的最后一部分探讨了当代印第安文化在城市中的建立及印第安文化和白人文化交融和融合的动态过程。更多还原

【Abstract】 The 1990s witnessed the formation of a new wave of American Indian literature: it creates a more authentic picture of Modern American Indian experience and shifts its focus to urbanity and a more comprehensive, global perspective. Louise Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife belongs to this new wave of American Indian fiction and explores the in-between situation of urban Indians in a modern setting.Aided by Homi Bhabha’s theory on in-betweenness and cultural hybridity, this thesis argues that despite the negative effects of urban Indians’in-between situation, it provides them an opportunity to construct a new and hybrid American Indian culture that breaks the fixity of traditional Indian identity and enables them to better fit into modern society. Moreover, this hybrid American Indian culture is flexible and ever-changing as it evolves through the dynamic process of cultural conflict, communication and integration in the hybrid city space.Taking interracial marriage throughout American Indian history and the relocation program as points of departure, this thesis attempts to explore cultural in-betweenness in The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich. Both factors contribute to the racial hybridity of urban Indians. The above discussion prepares the ground for the exploration of the in-between situation of mixed-blood urban Indians. As a result of racial hybridity, they are under the influence of their ancestral cultural heritage and non-Indian cultural heritage, yet experience difficulty in fully merging into either of them. Nonetheless, the in-between situation of mixed-blood urban Indians becomes an advantage for them to establish a hybrid, modern American Indian culture in the city. The last section of the paper probes into the formation of a modern American Indian culture in the urban space and the dynamic cultural appropriation and integration involved in it.更多还原