回归地方与身体——特丽·坦皮斯特·威廉斯的整体性生态书写

A Return to Place and Body:Terry Tempest Williams’s Holistic Eco-Writing

美国自然文学女作家T.T.威廉斯以其独到的叙事风格和思想立意见誉于生态批评领域,她深入当今世界疏离破碎的本质,将书写中心回归地方和身体两大议题,力图探寻出人与自然交融共生的生态思路。在她的众多著述中,可观测的自然地理连同附着于其上的社会文化内涵延伸为广泛的地方范畴,寓情于地方的诗学也转向地方政治,消解了自然与文化的两端分界。置于地方体系内与之联结融通的身体则作为能动的物质实在,兼负被赋予精神特性的感知和叙事媒介身份,揭开真实完整的生态情貌,打破了物质与精神的遥相对峙,映照出威廉斯为驱逐各种分离和对立因素的整体性生态观念。

American female nature writer T.T. Williams enjoys great prestige in the field of eco-criticism for her unique narrative style and ideas. She penetrates into the alienated and broken essence of the contemporary world and turns the focus of writing to place and body, seeking to figure out the ecological thinking path of human-nature harmonious symbiosis. In her numerous works, observable physical geography along with its attached social cultural connotations constitutes the extensive scope of place, and the poetics combining emotions with place switches to the politics of place, clearing up the boundaries of nature and culture. Body situated in the system of place that is interconnected with it exists both as a sort of active material substanciality and the perceptive and narrative medium endowed with some spirituality, uncovering the true and integrated ecological conditions, breaking the standoff between material and spirit, and further mirroring Williams’ s holistic ecological concepts which expel all kinds of isolated and opposite elements.