乔伊·哈乔诗歌中的故事叙述

Storytelling in Joy Harjo’s Poetry

诗歌是印第安民族最早出现的文学形式之一,取材于其部落时期的劳作经历,根植于印第安民族的口述传统,代代相传。乔伊·哈乔是美国当代最具影响力的印第安裔诗人,她的诗歌承袭了印第安民族的口述传统,以讲故事的方式向读者描绘生动的诗歌语言。故事叙述在哈乔诗歌中以土地为最主要的母题,追溯着印第安的民族起源。哈乔的诗歌故事以基于印第安民族自然崇拜信仰的灵视视角展开,直面当代社会印第安民族的生存困境。这些诗歌故事以当代寓言的方式告诫读者敬畏自然、坚守传统,以冲破当代社会困境的屏障,延续印第安民族的信仰与价值观,使得印第安民族精神能够延续。

As one of the earliest literary forms of the American Indian,poetry is based on the labor experience in the tribal period and rooted in the oral tradition of the American Indian,which is handed down from generation to generation.Joy Harjo is the most influential American Indian poet in contemporary America.Her poems inherit the oral tradition of The American Indian and convey vivid poetic language to readers by telling stories.In Harjo’s poems,the storytelling traces the origin of the American Indian with the land as the main motif.Harjo’s poetic stories are based on the spiritual perspective of the American Indian’s worship of nature and face the survival dilemma of the American Indian in the contemporary society.In the way of contemporary allegory,these poetry stories warn readers to respect nature and stick to tradition,so as to break through the barrier of modern social dilemma,adhere to the beliefs and values of the American Indian,and make national spirit of the American Indian continue to exist.