作为美国“印第安文艺复兴”四大家之一,詹姆斯.韦尔奇在其文学创作中,不仅揭示了当代印第安人精神衰亡的根源,也凸显了印第安传统文化对于保持和建构印第安文化身份的重要性。更为重要的是,韦尔奇通过跨越边缘与中心的文化界限,在文化杂糅基础上重新构建起美国印第安文化身份。 As one of the four major American “Indian Renaissance”, James Welch in his literary creation, not only reveals the root causes of the spiritual decline of contemporary Indians, but also highlights the traditional Indian culture for the preservation and construction of Indian cultural identity importance. More importantly, Welch reconstructed American Indian cultural identity on the basis of cultural mixture by crossing cultural boundaries between the periphery and the center.