论当下美国非裔诗人的记录式写作及其族裔诉求

外国文学研究 ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2): 121-131.

论当下美国非裔诗人的记录式写作及其族裔诉求

虞又铭

出版日期:2018-04-25 发布日期:2022-05-24
作者简介:虞又铭,文学博士,华东师范大学对外汉语学院副教授,主要从事英美诗歌、戏剧研究。
基金资助:
上海市哲学社会科学课题“当代美国诗歌中的都市空间书写研究”（2015BWY005）及中央高校基本科研业务费专项资助项目“后9-11时代美国少数族裔诗人的反身份诉求及其诗学策略”（2017ECNU-YYJ021）

Writing as Recording: Racial Concerns in the Works of Contemporary African American Poets

Yu Youming

Online:2018-04-25 Published:2022-05-24
About author:Yu Youming is associate professor at the International College of Chinese Studies, East China Normal University(Shanghai 200062, China). His recent research is mainly focused on English poetry and theatre. Email: steven78yu@hotmail.com
Supported by:
“A Study of City Space in Contemporary American Poetry” (2015BWY005) sponsored by Shanghai Social Science Fund; “Anti-identity Writing and its Poetics of Post 9-11 American Minority Poets”（2017ECNU-YYJ021）sponsored by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 本文以C.S.吉斯科姆、克劳迪亚•兰金以及罗纳尔多•威尔逊等三位当代美国非裔诗人的获奖诗集为分析对象,梳理他们创作中出现的“记录式写作”现象。吉斯科姆在写作中,以纯粹记录性的文字抵抗着意象、象征及隐喻的形成;兰金的诗作汇集了日常生活中的对话片断;威尔逊则将一段段传记性的生平记录呈现给读者。纵观之,三位诗人的记录式写作,均与族裔政治相关,它们致力于抵抗概念化的族裔偏见及其背后的权力运作、揭露如今族裔歧视的各种隐蔽形式。在表面上的克制与无动于衷的背后,三位非裔诗人的写作饱含着强烈的族裔关心。文章最终对当下这种记录式写作的三重诗学意义作了辨析。

关键词: 美国非裔诗人, 记录, 族裔歧视, 诗学意义

Abstract: This essay is to analyze the awarded works of C.S.Giscombe, Claudia Rankine and Ronaldo W. Wilson with an effort to reveal their poetic experiment: to write as to record. Giscombe uses records to resist the construction of image, symbol and metaphor. Rankine's poetry is to some extent a collection of daily talks. What Wilson presents to us are the fragments of biographical material. These writings, being as recording, are closely related to racial politics. They effectively demonstrate the rejection against racial discrimination and the power of discourse which functions behind it, sensitively uncovering many kinds of disguised racial prejudice in today's America. Apart from the embodied racial concerns, the three poetic layers of this new type of writing are also discussed by the essay.

Key words: African American poets, recording writing, racial discrimination, poetic meanings

虞又铭. 论当下美国非裔诗人的记录式写作及其族裔诉求[J]. 外国文学研究, 2018, 40(2): 121-131.

Yu Youming. Writing as Recording: Racial Concerns in the Works of Contemporary African American Poets[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2018, 40(2): 121-131.

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