从《最后的莫希干人》评库柏的种族、等级和性别观

美国边疆西移的过程实际上是屠杀、掠夺印第安人的过程,作者认为库柏对印第安人的遭遇表示极大同情的同时,但在文明与荒野,白人与红人等问题上却模棱两可,并认同社会与政府机制中的等级观念,作品通过塑造柯拉理智、勇敢、没有偏见、善于应变的混血女人形象,探索了美国社会准则和人类行为规范。

On James Fenimore Cooper's View of Race, Class, and Gender from The Last of the Mohicans

The process of the early American movement towards the West is actually a process of massacre of American Indians. The article points out that James Fenimore Cooper has sympathy with American Indians,but at the same time showing his ambiguities on many issues.Cooper has set apart a character of ideal qualities,confined them within a "lower class citizen," and thus ultimately disregarded gender,class,and race,in his efforts to redefine a standard.