刘荒田小品散文论

On Liu Huangtian’s Essays

刘荒田在北美新移民作家中具有代表性。他的小品散文既有着新移民文学的共性,又有着自身鲜明的品格。在地性是其小品散文突出的特色。刘荒田对北美新移民问题的关注,对普通新移民人生图景的状写,对新移民命运和前途的思考,构成了丰富广阔的创作题材,他的小品散文具体生动地描绘和勾勒了北美新移民的日常人生以及美华社会新的生活图景。在对北美在地日常生活的观察和描绘中,刘荒田善于冷静地捕捉生活的细微处,独抒性灵,表现出独特的意味,且常常会予以诗性的表达。这使他的小品散文具有了诗质散文的特质。

Liu Huangtian is a representative writer among the new migrant writers in North America.His essays have something in common with the new migrant literature with its own distinct characteristics,locality being their prominent features.Liu Huangtian’s concern for the issue of new migrants in North America,his writing of the life landscape of the ordinary new migrants and his thinking over the fate and future of them form rich and vast subject matter.His essays concretely and vividly depict and describe the ordinary lives of the new migrants in North America and the new life pictures of the Chinese American society.In his observation and description of the local ordinary life in North America,Liu Huangtian is good at detachedly capturing the minutiae of life and single-handedly expressing the soul and spirit,in a unique manner and often poetically,which qualifies his essays with the properties of poetry.