论美国印第安文艺复兴时期的诗歌创作

A Probe into American Indian Poetry in Native American Renaissance

美国印第安文艺复兴时期,涌现出一批具有民族自豪感的作家与诗人,他们把写作当作政治解放的武器,在其诗歌创作中强调对同化的抵制,表达出认同祖先文化传统的愿望。作为这一时期诗人的代表人物,乔伊·哈娇(Joy Harjo)、西蒙·欧提斯(Simon Ortiz)以及琳达·荷根(Linda Hogan)将诗歌创作建立在印第安口述文化传统之上,强调土地是印第安的记忆和文化之根,并透过灵性传统彰显异于主流文学的叙述模式、神话体系和信仰体系。

American Indian Renaissanee marks the first milestone in the development of American Indian literature written in English. With a strong sense of national pride, a new generation of Indian writers and poets in this period took up writing as a weapon of political liberation, proclaiming their dismissal of assimilation and articulating the desire to identify with their ancestral heritages. As part of them, Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz and Linda Hogan infused their poem composition with traditional Indian culture such as affiliation with land, storytelling and vision so as to highlight Indian narrative discourse and mythology that are different from the dominant culture.