The Cultural-political Narrative Study Of Louise Erdrick's "Trilogy Of Justice"

Louise Erdrich is a representative of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance and one of the most influential Native American writers in contemporary American literature.In the 1980 s,The Beet Queen was questioned by Silko who is a predecessor of Native American writers.Silko thinks that the novels of Erdrich are addicted to the postmodern language and form experiment,resulting in a lack of attention to the external social reality and the ethnic experience shared by Indian tribes.Therefore,she criticizes Erdrich for neglecting her political commitment as a Native American writer.However,taking a general look at the novels of Erdrich over the past30 years,her political attitude has gradually changed from implicit to obvious.Among Erdrich's numerous novels,the Justice Trilogy——The plague of Doves,The Round House and La Rose—— highlights her attention to the issues of justice and legality in recent years,which reflects her attention to political issues and the increasingly strong desire for political participation.And at the same time,these novels make a strong response to the early controversies on the lack of politics in her novels.Then,focusing on the novels of Erdrich,and taking the narrative of culture and politics as the keyword,we can find that Erdrich's Justice Trilogy is full of politics in theme and form.Firstly,Silko's comment provides an opportunity to examine Erdrich's cosmopolitanism writing from the perspective of Indian literary nationalism,whose value lies in promoting our understanding of Native American literature at the turn of cultural politics,as well as attention to the relationship between artistic aesthetic and cultural politics in Native American literature.At the same time,in the novels of Erdrich since the 21 st century,she pursues to break through the essentialism identity classification.Her novels are the hybridity of western culture and Indian tribe culture.Secondly,from the perspective of the theme,Erdrich specifically raised questions and challenges to the official history and reality of the United States by retelling the absent tribal history,exploring the deprived tribal sovereignty,and restoring the vanished tribal cultural tradition.She probes into how the Indians should survive in the unjust legal history and current situation,which reflects her increasing concern for political issues and cultural reflections on the contemporary American social reality.Finally,the artistic form of the trilogy is also permeated with complicated political consciousness,which confirms what scholar Matthew Herman said,“the style of Native American Literature is also full of politics”.The turn-singing narrative mode realizes the overlapping of discourse power and breaks the single perspective of the grand narrative.The narrative discourse of tricksters breaks the stereotypes about the Indians with subversive and humorous power and points to the marginalized living conditions of the contemporary Indians.The concentric circlenarrative structure connects the inside and outside of the text with the mode of“past-present-future”,which reminding readers to take history as experience,remember tribal history and inherit tribal culture.Erdrich's Justice Trilogy is political in both theme and artistic form.Different from the early novels which hold an implicit political attitude,Erdrich recently pays more attention to political issues in a clear style which highlights her cultural and political thinking on the history and reality of contemporary American society.Meanwhile,Erdrich still does not put politics above the art of fiction.She maintains her usual writing style,which shows the unique artistic charm of her North Dakota series of novels.