论《爱药》中美国印第安人的生存主题-英语语言文学专业论文.docx

AbstractLouise Abstract Louise Erdrich，a distinguished and prolific woman writer of contemporary Native American literature，is acclaimed by numerous critics and audiences at home and abroad for her marvelous descriptlons of the life Of the North Dakota．Her first well—known book，Love ^死dfc砌巳vividly displays survival crisis that Native Americans have suff．ered and are SUffering in the American society,analyzes different attitudes that Native Americans hold towards survival crisis，and r印resents Erdrich，s speculations over strategies of survival for NatiVe Americans in the contemporary world． The thesis is intended for a detailed analysis of the theme of Native Americans，suⅣival implied in Love Medicine．The thesis consists of three parts：the introduction，the body and the COnclusion·The body of the thesis is composed of three chapters． The introduction of the thesis includes a brief introduction to Erdrich and her literary works，a literature review,the theoretical basis and the structure of the whole thesis． Chapter One analyzes Native Americans’survival crisis in Erdrich’s L晰e Memctne．Owing to her mixed blood identity and multicultural oVer the living environment，Erdrich ofien shows her deep concerns question question of how Native Americans should survive in the contemporary world in her works，especially in Love Me讲cme．Then the thesis continues to present Native Americans’survival crisis in terms of politics， economy and culture and to analyze the causes of Native Americans’ survival crisis from the perspective of the policies implemented by the govemment in different historical stages as shown in Love Medicine． Chapter Two mainly analyzes three different attitudes towards Native Americans’survival crisis in Love Me扰cine．To be specific，the three different attitudes are as follows：standing up to their survival crisis． escaping from their survival crisis，and hesitating between the above two attitudes．Compared with the 1 984 Love Medicine，the 1 993 Love Medicine embo