The Beautiful Madwoman in the Forest-A Study of Tracks

＜蹤跡＞林中美麗瘋女之主題探討

李健美(Chien-Mei Lee)

《通識研究集刊》 10期 (2006/12) Pp. 1-18

https://doi.org/10.6488/JCGE.200612.0001

摘要

不論在美國社會或美國文學裡，美國原住民印地安人向來是被忽略的一群，而印地安女性尤其被邊緣化。本文主要在提供一個欣賞美國原住民弱勢文學之角度，取材鎖定露薏思‧厄翠琪的＜蹤跡＞。由於作者本身具有印地安血統，且深諳印地安文化，因此能深入剖析印地安女性所面臨之種種困境與層層剝削，並給予高度之關懷。＜蹤跡＞之女主角芙蘿是位個性堅強且極力維護傳統之『女戰士』，由於其特殊能力及特異行徑，白人及其族人皆與其保持相當之距離，並視其為『林中狂女』，可是綜觀其一生之表現，不卑不亢，洵為女中豪傑，值得歌功頌德。

關鍵字

美國原住民 ； 印地安女性 ； 弱勢文學 ； 蹤跡 ； 林中狂女 ； 女中豪傑

並列摘要

Native Americans, the Indians, have long been marginalized in American society and literature, and the female Natives are even more neglected in the already meager works.1 The main goal of this study is to offer an appreciative perspective of the minority's writing-the Native American's literature, focusing on Lourise Erdrich's third novel, Tracks.2 Erdrich, German-American and Chippewa descent, knows well about the people she writes about, and her female characters are especially rich for feminist study. Fleur, the ”Madwoman” in Track, will be analyzed to shed light on the steadfast perseverance with which she has tried to survive in a world most unfavorable, even hostile, to the female Native Americans.3 In the end we will come to appreciate her as the beautiful woman fighting for survival with admirable recalcitrance and dignity.

並列關鍵字

Native Americans ； marginalized literature ； the female Native ； Tracks ； Madwoman ； forest ； the female tricksters