翻译作为一种“诗歌活动”:郑敏对美国当代诗歌的译介

Translation as a poetic activity: On Zheng Min’s translation of contemporary American poems

国内学界鲜有人关注郑敏这位"九叶派"大诗人的另一身份——诗歌译者。事实上,郑敏在20世纪80年代系统地译介了美国当代诗歌,将开放、不定、无意识等后现代主义的新鲜质素和解构诗学引入中国当代诗坛,并促进自身创作的转型。本文着眼郑敏对美国当代诗歌的译介,从郑敏的翻译缘起生发开来,进而考略其整个翻译活动。作为"诗人译诗"的典型,郑敏对"解构"诗学的诉求影响了她对诗歌翻译的译本选择、翻译策略及译介阐释,而翻译作为一种"诗歌活动"同时也印证、促成了她的诗学转向。

It remains unexplored in China that Zheng Min,a famous poetess in"Jiu Ye School",has another identity—a translator who in the 1980 s translated and introduced contemporary American poems systematically.Through translation,Zheng Min brought some features of deconstructionist and postmodernist poetics such as openness,uncertainty,and unconsciousness into Chinese poetry circle,which contributed to a turn in her poetic career.This paper focuses on Zheng Min’s translation of contemporary American poems,from the reason why she began the translation,to her entire translation activities.As a poetess-translator,Zheng Min’s tendency to deconstructionist poetics influences and manipulates her choices of poems to translate,translation strategies and interpretation.Meanwhile poem translation as a"poetic activity"proves and promotes her transformation in poetics.