声音诗学是美国非裔诗歌的重要特征。本文以诗歌文本中的声音为对象,探讨美国非裔诗歌中的声音形态及声音的文本化、声音诗学的文化基础、文化意义和美学意义。声音诗学是美国非裔诗人自觉的艺术实践和社会实践的结果,既源于人类认知世界和自我表达的天性,又扎根于该民族的独特生存经历和文化土壤。声音诗学作为非裔诗人的民族文化选择和一种文化策略,主要服务于非裔民族的历史书写、民族认同、人性传达、民族文学建构。在美学层面上,声音诗学赋予美国非裔诗歌声音主导的文本品质和以直观性和感性为特性的审美体验。美国非裔诗歌的声音诗学与美国其他先锋诗人的诗学实践相互呼应,与现代技术发展相呼应,推动了美国诗歌的多元化和当代化。
This paper attempts to present a comprehensive exploration of poetics of sound in African American poetry by examining the features of sound and its textualization in African American poetry, as well as the cultural basis, cultural and aesthetic significance of poetics of sound. Poetics of sound, as a product of African American poets' conscious practice in art and social life, is deeply rooted both in human's cognition of the world and self-expression and in the unique experience and culture of African American people, and thus reflects African American poets' cultural standpoint. As a cultural strategy, poetics of sound serves mainly African American history writing, affirmation over its national identity, expression of humanity across national and racial lines, and construction of its national literature. Also poetics of sound endows African American poetry with an aesthetics featuring sound-orientedness in textual form and immediacy and perceptuality in aesthetic experience. In general, poetics of sound in African American poetry echoes the poetic experiment of other avant-garde poets and the advancement of today's IT technology, thus promoting diversity and contemporariness of American poetry as a whole.