跨文化互动中的华裔美国诗歌创新——李立阳诗作“中国式吃”描写的意义

On Chinese Eating in Li-Young Lee's Poems

北美丰富的亚裔诗歌作品一方面为我们理解散居在海外的亚裔人士的生活和经历提供了机会,另一方面为我们审视当代文学和文化研究提供了宝贵的素材。华裔美国诗人李立阳的作品在美国获得多个文学奖项,他的诗作内容丰富,写作手法细腻。作为跨文化跨国境的写作形式,他的诗歌体现了侨民在异国的真实生活和真实情感。部分评论家将他的作品进行民族中心主义来解读,仅重视李立阳对中国文化的传承,这既违背了诗人创作的本意,也使其诗文的解读狭隘化。特别值得重视的是诗人在对"中国式的"吃和吃食的描写中,将多种文化传统进行汇合并重新定位,使种族印记无形化,从而实现了对华美诗文文体模式的不断创新。

The Asian American Poetry in America is a rich body of poetic works which, on the one hand, provides valuable materials for us to understand the lives and experiences of Asian American poets, on the other hand, offers us an opportunity to examine some of the most important issues in current literary and culture studies. The content of Li-Young Lee＇s prize-winning books of poetry is plentiful. His writing techniques are meticulous and faithful. His poems present the authentic life and emotions of Chinese Americans. Some critics attempt to explain his poetry by only emphasizing his Chinese ethnicity while ignoring the original creation ideas, which will cause decipherment of ethnocentrism and parochialism. Through an analysis of the food and the way of eating food, the author tries to exposit how the poet expresses his own construction and invention of reddening the racial marks invisible and brings the new ideas in Chinese American literature by using the Chinese culture in a strategic way.