彝族诗歌的跨语际书写与民族志翻译——以阿库乌雾《凯欧蒂神迹》为例

Interlingual Writing and Ethnographic Translation of Yi Poetry:with Special Reference to Aku Wuwu’s Coyote Traces

《凯欧蒂神迹》是彝族诗人阿库乌雾用“第二母语”(汉语)书写并翻译为英语的一部旅美民族志诗集。文章以阿库乌雾将彝族文化和印第安文化意象并置的跨语际书写与民族志翻译话语实践为个案,探析了汉英对照本《凯欧蒂神迹》所呈现出的少数民族族裔文学走向世界文学进程中文化混血与民族志翻译等特点。毋庸置疑,从母语叙事到汉语叙事,经过中美译者的民族志翻译最终旨归英语读者的英语叙事,阿库乌雾诗歌的跨语际书写创立了少数族裔文化跨文明对话与民族志翻译的可行范例,对中国少数民族文学“走出去”战略的实施具有重要借鉴意义。

Coyote Traces is an anthology of ethnographic poems written by Aku Wuwu, the poet of the Yi ethnic group, in the second mother tongue( Chinese) and then translated into English. Taking Aku Wuwu’s interlingual writing and ethnographic translation discourse as an example, this paper explores cultural hybridism and ethnographic translation for ethnic minorities’ literature to be incorporated into world literature. Admittedly,f rom the narration of mother tongue( the Yi language) into the narration of the Chinese language and further translated into English, the interlingual writing by Aku Wuwu aims at the English narration for English readers, thus creating the intercultural dialogue and ethnography of ethnic cultures. Aku Wuwu’s examples are of great referential significance for"going global"strategy of Chinese minority literature.