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路易丝·厄德里克是美国当代创作最盛、得奖最多且声望最高的印第安女作家之一。她所创作的旨在描述印第安人日常生活、折射印第安人与白人文化冲突的短篇小说《世上最了不起的渔夫》荣获1982年纳尔逊·阿尔格伦短篇小说奖。本文尝试运用荷兰叙事学家米克·巴尔的镜子—文本理论,讨论该小说中作为素材插入的一则种族笑话的镜子文本功能,以期透彻理解厄德里克精湛的小说创作技巧、对边缘人物的深切同情以及对跨种族文化交流的理性思考。
Louise Erdrich is one of the most established, most prized and acclaimed Indian women writers in contemporary American history. Her short story “The World’s Greatest Fisherman,” aiming to describe the daily life of Native Americans and reflect the cultural conflicts between Indians and whites, won the 1982 Nelson Argren Short Stories Award. This paper tries to use mirror-text theory of Dutch narratologist Mick Barr to discuss the mirror text function of a racial joke inserted as a material in the novel, in order to thoroughly understand Erzrich’s superb novel writing skills and to help the marginalized people Deep sympathy and rational thinking on cross-ethnic cultural exchanges.