Abstract
Chinese Yi poet Aku Wuwu's Coyote Traces created in his sojourn in America includes a large number of poems related to Native American mythologies, history and beliefs. In his migration of the Native American image from America to China, Aku devotes to keep the rich connotation and authenticity of the Native American image through his broad visual field and horizontal perspective. Although in most cases, cultural filtration is almost inevitable in the process of cultural migration and the original image is bound to be changed or even distorted, Aku's successful migration of the Native American image proves that an image creator's visual field and perspective can largely decide the result of cultural migration. This thesis analyzes the image of Native Americans shaped by Aku from a comparative literature perspective in order to appeal for readers' attention that cross-cultural writing should narrow the gap between images in literature and in reality, because it should commit to take the responsibility to build a community with a shared future for mankind through the exchange of civilizations which should be constructed on the base of real understanding instead of fantasies.
Highlights
IntroductionWuwu○1 , together with Wen Peihong and Mark Bender, the translators, cooperated to edit and translate a poem collection entitled Coyote Traces: Aku Wuwu’s Poetic Sojourn in America
In 2015, after his sojourn in the United States, AkuWuwu○1, together with Wen Peihong and Mark Bender, the translators, cooperated to edit and translate a poem collection entitled Coyote Traces: Aku Wuwu’s Poetic Sojourn in America
With the publication of the collection in China, due to Aku’s great influence among the literary circle of the Chinese Yi people, the Native American image migrated by him bears Yi people or even most Chinese people’s “social collective imagination” of the Native American civilization
Summary
Wuwu○1 , together with Wen Peihong and Mark Bender, the translators, cooperated to edit and translate a poem collection entitled Coyote Traces: Aku Wuwu’s Poetic Sojourn in America. Native American image is poetically migrated from America to China by Aku. To avoid cultural filtration and keep the rich connotation and authenticity of Native American image in his poetical migration, Aku is consciously selective in his observation and creation. To avoid cultural filtration and keep the rich connotation and authenticity of Native American image in his poetical migration, Aku is consciously selective in his observation and creation His success in the migration of the Native American image lies in his broad visual field and horizontal perspective. Judging from the two poems written in Ohio when Aku visited the United States for the first time, he had a strong desire to pursue the mysterious and magnificent Native American civilization Since his Yi ancestors once created brilliant civilizations as the ancient Native American did, but both Yi and the Native American people have been experiencing something frustrating and depressing. Under the guidance of this “kindred spirit in culture”, the poet’s imagination of the ancient Native American tribes in the Eastern America formed a spiritual “Utopia” in his literary world, which embodied the poet’s remembrance of the beautiful, natural, tranquil and quaint lifestyle once possessed by ethnic minorities in the world
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