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第一位获得“威尔士民族诗人”称号的格温妮丝·刘易斯(Gwyneth Lewis,1959—),是一位使用威尔士语和英语双语创作、探讨母语与认同主题的当代诗人。她创作的以“谋杀母语”为隐喻主题的一组诗,采取对话、幽默、嘲讽等语调,表达了文化认同的艰难与复杂。此外,诗人所作的双语诗歌镌刻于威尔士的首府卡迪夫的地标性建筑——“威尔士千禧年中心”外墙,鲜明地表达了双语文化共存的愿望。刘易斯的创作实践揭示了威尔士几百年来并存的双语文化现实,对在当代多元文化的语境下创造性地继承本民族文化,富有启发意义。
The first Gwyneth Lewis (1959-), winner of the Welsh National Poet, is a contemporary poet who speaks both Welsh and English and explores the theme of mother tongue and identity. Her poems of “Murdering Mother Tongue” with the theme of metaphor adopt the tone of dialogue, humor, ridicule and so on, expressing the difficulties and complications of cultural identity. In addition, the poet’s bilingual poems are engraved on the external walls of the Welsh Millennial Center, a landmark building in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, and clearly express the desire for the coexistence of bilingual cultures. Lewis’s practice of writing reveals the coexistence of bilingual cultural realities in Wales for hundreds of years and is instructive in creatively inheriting the culture of this nation in the context of contemporary multiculturalism.