“超越疲倦的布鲁斯”:兰斯顿·休斯的黑人城市书写

“The Blues Transcending Weariness”:Langston Hughes' Urban Writing

兰斯顿·休斯是美国黑人文学史上杰出的现代派诗人,是哈莱姆文艺复兴的中坚力量。他将植根于美国黑人民间文化的布鲁斯音乐与诗歌创作结合,细致入微地表达了20世纪上半叶城市化进程中普通美国黑人的现代性体验,《疲倦的布鲁斯》是其较有代表性的诗篇之一。这首诗与音乐有着密不可分的联系,从跨艺术城市诗学的视角来考察,可以发现音乐与诗歌之间的转化与融合。这首诗吸纳布鲁斯音乐的精髓与时代精神,在表达美国黑人心灵"疲倦"的同时又超越了对日常生活的疲倦和厌烦,成为美国黑人城市书写的最恰当的文化表征。

Langston Hughes is an outstanding modern Afro American poet and leading figure of Harlem Renaissance. “The Weary Blues” is his representative poem which integrates with the blues to unfold the African American modern consciousness in the course of modernization and urbanization in the early 20th century of America. With the help of the inter art poetics, this paper focuses on the transformation and fusion of poetry and music by which the poem absorbs the art and the spirit of African American blues. As a proper representation of African American modernity and urban writing, this blues poem voices the weariness of African Americans while transcending that weariness as well.