Drinks:The Metaphors of the Racial Identity Politics of American Indians in Louise Erdrich's The Night Watchman
Diet is closely related to racial identity politics,and it is an important dimension of cultural criticism.In The Night Watch-man,a novel by the American female writer Louise Erdrich,there are a lot of narratives of American Indian people's diet,a-mong which the narratives of drinks constitutes the complex and dynamic metaphors of the racial identity politics of American Indians.The names of these drinks,the characters'feelings towards these drinks and the way they drinking imply Erdrich's thoughts of the racial identity politics in American society.The foreign drinks such as alcohol and coffee show the crises and challenges encountered by Indians in modern society,and the hybridity of their identity.The"natural waters"such as tea and birch water help native Americans to acquire their identity and have a sense of belonging,and it also help Erdrich to obtain the literary aesthetic salvation.
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