从《爱药》看当代印第安民族文化建构  

The Construction of Contemporary Native Indian Culture as Shown in Love Medicine

作　　者：潘守文[1] 胡文征[2] 

机构地区：[1]吉林大学外国语学院,长春130012 [2]吉林大学公共外语教育学院,长春130012

出　　处：《长春大学学报》2012年第1期29-32,共4页Journal of Changchun University

基　　金：吉林省社会科学规划项目(2011B050)

摘　　要：民族文化是一个民族全体成员在特定的历史背景下选择和建构的结果,关乎该民族的生死存亡。厄德里克的著名小说《爱药》探讨了当代北美印第安民族内部成员之间如何共处,呈现了印第安民族文化建构过程中的四种文化形态:纵欲轻生的原始文化、苟且偷生的保守文化、爱生护生的女性文化和兼收并蓄的创新文化。小说揭示了爱在凝聚民族力量方面所发挥的巨大潜能,其价值超越了印第安文化范畴,具有普适意义。Native culture is the consequence of selection and construction by each individual of a native group in a specific historical context, and determines the survival of the native group. Love Medicine, a famous novel by Louise Erdrich, exploring how the members of a native Indian group treat each other, presents four scenarios in their constructing the contemporary native Indian culture： barbaric intemperance; conservative resignation ; maternal love of life ; and creative inheritance of different cultures. As the novel clearly shows, love plays a tremendous role in building up national strength. Its value is not limited to native Indian culture, but is universally applicable.

关 键 词：厄德里克 《爱药》 印第安文化 生存 爱 

分 类 号：I712.074[文学—其他各国文学]