丽塔·乔诗歌中的温和书写

Gentle Writing in Rita Joe’s Poetry

丽塔·乔是加拿大米克马克族“桂冠诗人”,致力于本族文化遗产修复。然而,学界对丽塔·乔诗歌创作采取的“温和抵抗”策略存有误解,认为诗人表达过于温和平静。从表面上看,诗歌中确实鲜有对殖民主义谴责性的话语,但透过诗歌文字表象,通过多维度对诗歌主题、历史真相以及诗歌内蕴的分析阐释,可以消除对诗人文化抵抗的误解。丽塔·乔将少数族裔书写视为弘扬民族文化、增进外部世界对其了解的重要途径,并借助诗歌赋能民族文化继承和发展。从现实意义上来看,“温和协商”和“共情”确是有利于民族疗愈及与主流社会对话,是新时期和主流社会和解背景下理性务实的做法。

Rita Joe is the“Poet Laureate”of the Mi’kmaq people in Canada.She is committed to the restoration of her people’s cultural heritage.However,there is a misunderstanding in academic circles about the“civil disobedience”strate-gy adopted in her poetry,which is considered too moderate and calm.Superficially,there are indeed few words condemn-ing colonialism in her poetry.However,by analyzing and interpreting the literal representation of her poetry through mul-tiple dimensions--the themes,the description of historical truths,and the connotations—this misunderstanding of her cultural resistance can be eliminated.Minority writing is regarded by Joe as an important way to promote ethnic culture and enhance understanding of the outside world to it.And with the help of poetry,she empowers the inheritance and de-velopment of ethic culture.In a practical sense,Joe’s strategies of“gentle negotiation”and“empathy”are indeed condu-cive to national healing and dialogue with mainstream society,and are rational and pragmatic practices in the context of reconciliation with the mainstream society in the new era.