中美自白诗:一个跨文化互文性个案

批评家普遍认为,“自白”文学是一种暴露真实生活经验的文学表达,强调文学对现实生活的写真和模仿。如果偏离这种主流的阅读经验,把注意力转向诗歌文本对前文本的重写,采用文本分析和互文理论相结合的方法来挖掘中美自白诗的审美潜质,审视其在中国的接受,就会发现中国诗人在题材和风格方面的共同偏好如何机缘巧合地促成中国“自白”诗的形成,而诗评家把自白标签任意地贴在女诗人身上的做法是不妥的。

Chinese and American Confessional Poetry: A Case of Cross-Cultural Intertextuality

Confessional literature is widely read as revelation of authentic experience of life and as mimesis of external reality. Departing from this dominant reading horizon, this paper focuses on rewritings of pre-texts as a means to create (inter-)textual reality. Through a combined approach of intertextuality and textual analysis, it looks into the making of a Chinese confessional poetics, in terms of shared authorial thematic and stylistic preferences, in interaction with American confessional poetry school as a historical and literary construct. In doing so, it also questions arbitrarily imposing the label of confession on women poets alone in current Chinese poetry criticism.