文坛病毒与文学尊严

物欲、权欲和肉欲等社会病毒的侵袭和影响,不但严重地污染了文化生态,破坏了文人形象,损害了文学尊严,也导致了审美价值的错位、精神意志的顿挫、社会道德的滑坡、民族自信的危机,成了毒害社会和人们的精神鸦片。因此,清除文坛病毒,净化文化空间,纯洁文学精神,维护文学良知,重塑文化形象,再造文学尊严,为社会创造美好的精神财富,是我们每一个文人所应担负的社会责任。

藏地复调的协奏、杂奏与变奏——杨志军《雪山大地》诠论

解读杨志军的《雪山大地》,需要与藏地书写的文学大传统参照进行。藏地书写中的信仰特征,经历了政治化—神秘化—欲望化的演变流程,而《雪山大地》中以歌唱和音乐为核心的信仰形式,则是形成于并反哺俗常世界的实在信仰。与藏地书写传统中那种二元对立的极端化、浪漫化叙事模式有别,杨志军在《雪山大地》中开辟出一条以发展为核心诉求且接通城市与藏乡、现代与传统联系的文明之道。《雪山大地》写出了藏地世界的复杂与丰富,充满了多种音调的复合声响。就作品本身来说,它既是一首俗世与信仰的协奏曲,也是传统与现代交织的杂奏曲。相对于整个藏地书写传统而言,提供了多维度、全新笔调的《雪山大地》,又是一首名副其实的变奏曲。在边地关心、思考着时代中心命题的《雪山大地》,挺立着一群大写的“人”的形象,矫正了“叙述精彩,精神低下”的衰颓现状,有力护持了文学的高贵尊严。

Expressive Aspect of Phallia-autocracy in an Indigenous African Society： The Case of Yoruba Proverbs

The patriarchal leaning of most traditional African communities is sign-posted by certain behavioural models which place the woman at the receiving end of certain prejudices in our cultural milieu. Such prejudices manifest in diverse behavioural and relational manners that either peripheralize the woman or out-rightly remove every vestige of human dignity from her being. Language, being a significant carrier of our emotions, biases, beliefs, preference and prejudices, provides a crucial platform for the interrogation of the nature of gender relations and their consequences in any society, such consideration has forced a preponderance of scholarly interest in gender studies in arts and humanities. This study caries out a scholarly investigate into such gender inspired biases through the prison of Yoruba proverbs as a reflection of our cultural practices and beliefs about the position of the woman in a typical traditional Yoruba setting