阿米力·巴拉卡简论

Amiri Baraka: His Career, Works and Literary Thoughts

阿米力·巴拉卡是美国当代重要的文学家、理论家、社会活动家,对20世纪中叶以来的美国非裔文学和美国大众文化产生了重要影响。巴拉卡的生活经历与他的主要作品密不可分,在文学思想上,巴拉卡几经转变,从垮掉派诗人到黑人民族主义者,再到马列主义者,再转向文化主义者,这一思想轨迹背后是不变的价值追求,即文学服务社会的文学观和大众先锋主义美学观。

Amiri Baraka is a leading author, theorist and social activist in contemporary America, with a far-reaching influence upon African American literature and American popular culture since the mid-20 th century. This paper presents a survey of Baraka＇s literary career and major works, and demonstrates Baraka＇s literary thoughts with an exploration to the＂changing same＂behind his shifts from Beat poet to Black Nationalist to Marxist-Leninist-Third Worldist and then to culturalist—his view of literature serving life and his aesthetic view of populist-avant-gardism.