爱与战争——论美国印第安女诗人乔伊·哈玖的民族责任与平衡策略

In Love and War——On American Indian Woman Poet Joy Harjo's National Responsibilities and Balance Strategies

乔伊·哈玖是当代美国印第安文学之翘楚。在以欧裔白人为中心的后工业时代,哈玖在民族文化的记忆与焦虑中,以文为武,在诗歌中极力张扬传统印第安传统文化,呼吁民族崛起抗争,以图民族生存与文化传承;同时在其诗歌中,哈玖倡导非暴力的、和平的、包容的民族平衡策略,以求更大范围的共鸣与同盟,体现出强烈的诗人责任与民族责任,极具人文精神。

Joy Harjo is a pioneering and outstanding poet in the contemporary American literature. In the post-industrial age centering European Americans,Joy Harjo,with the mingled conflicts of memories and anxieties of the old traditional Indian culture,employs words as the power,highlights the traditional Indian tribal culture,appeals for the struggle of the Indian tribes,quests for the struggle for the existence and transmission of India and Indian culture. Simultaneously,she advocates the non-violence peaceful and tolerant national balance strategies so as to attract more resonance and larger alliance,which is obviously expressed in her poetry. And hence,a strong sense of poet＇s responsibilities and national responsibilities are vividly depicted and the humanistic value in the poetry is fully realized.