依温妮·维拉:诗意写作与女性生存困境

Yvonne Vera:poetic writing and women's survival dilemma

依温妮·维拉是非洲最具世界性和天赋的作家之一。她的小说致力于书写津巴布韦战乱年代国家命运走向与极端暴力性事件中底层女性的生存境况。在其代表性的作品《无名》《舌下》《蝴蝶燃烧》中,女主人公分别陷入身份、情感、自我实现的困境。这折射出殖民掠夺、反殖民战争对妇女的伤害以及父权制下女性生存之艰难。同时,维拉大胆运用诗意化的写作方式,与小说中的暴力事件产生强烈视觉对比,悲剧效果更甚。

Yvonne Vera is one of the most cosmopolitan and gifted writers in Africa.Her novels are devoted to writing the fate of Zimbabwe in the war-torn era and the living conditions of women at the bottom in the extreme violent events.In her typical works,such as Without a Name,Under the Tongue,Butterfly Burning,the heroine falls into the dilemma of identity,emotion and self realization.This reflects the colonial plunder,the harm of anti colonial war to women and the difficulty of women's survival under patriarchy.At the same time,Vera boldly uses poetic writing style,which has a strong visual contrast with the violence in the novel,and the tragic effect is more intense.