南太平洋上的反殖民之歌:论莱奥玛拉英语诗歌中的文化记忆

Anti-colonialism Songs in Southern Pacific: On the Cultural Memory in English Poems by Albert Leomala

瓦努阿图是南太平洋地区与我国建交的八个国家之一,也是"一带一路"南线的重要地理空间,但该国生产的英语文学却极少被我国学者关注。本文试图以瓦努阿图土著诗人艾伯特·莱奥玛拉的诗歌为研究对象,以文化记忆为研究切入点,探究极富文化身份忧患意识的诗人在诗歌中如何为复兴土著民族文化记忆和化解族群文化身份危机进行文化记忆的反殖民建构。研究认为,诗人在诗歌中从回忆过去、审视当下和建构未来三个角度,先后唤醒了土著族群何如痛失本民族宗教信仰的过去,痛定思痛地考察了民族传统文化消亡在当下造成的种种文化身份危机,并据此大量生产承载复兴传统文化的文化文本,系统性地重构了土著民族的文化记忆。

Although Vanuatu as an island country in Southern Pacific is a key geographical point in the southern branch of “The Road and Belt,” English literature produced there has never attracted any academic attention from Chinese scholars. With cultural memory as the pointcut for the poems by Albert Leomala, an attempt made in this paper is to make an exploration into how Albert Leomala, as a poet in deep concern about aboriginal people’s cultural identity, brings the anti-colonism construction of cultural memory into being for reviving the cultural memory of aboriginal people and resolving the crisis of aboriginal people’s cultural identity. The study suggests that, by reminiscing about the past, surveying the present and building the future, the poet has spared no effort to bring the aboriginal tribes into the awareness of how they had lost the religious belief of their own in the past and the close observation of how they had been suffering from the varieties of cultural identity crises while the traditional culture has been eliminated out of the land by colonialism, on the basis of which Albet Leomala systematically reconstructed the cultural memory of aboriginal tribes by producing a large number of text as the cultural carriers for the renaissance of traditional culture.