ABSTRACT

Lionel Fogarty occupies a curious place in Australia letters. Widely regarded as the most important Aboriginal poet of his generation and even, as John Kinsella declares, ‘the greatest living Australian poet’, he has nevertheless received relatively little attention from scholars and is published by small, independent presses. Where considered at all, his politically charged, singular poetry is often treated with baffled awe or else conceived as a method of resisting the coloniser through an idiosyncratically ‘creolised’ English. This paper returns to various critical attempts to think Fogarty’s poetry, from ‘deep reading’ to ‘re-reading’ – some of which, like the trope of ‘unsettlement’, have yielded influential hermeneutics for the reading of Australian poetry per se – and treats these past readings as an entry point for an analysis of the complex rhetorical and poetic games of address in Fogarty’s poetics. It considers, in turn, the poetic importance of Fogarty’s sustained commitment to internationalist, liberationist, and anti-colonial politics, which it conceives as a poetics of solidarity.

摘要

Lionel Fogarty 在澳大利亚的信件中占有一席之地。他被广泛认为是他这一代最重要的原住民诗人，甚至正如约翰金塞拉所说的“最伟大的在世澳大利亚诗人”，但他很少受到学者的关注，并且由小型独立出版社出版。如果从根本上考虑，他充满政治色彩的奇异诗歌常常被视为莫名其妙的敬畏，或者被认为是通过一种特殊的“克里奥尔化”英语来抵抗殖民者的一种方法。本文回到各种批判性尝试来思考福格蒂的诗歌，从“深读”到“重读”——其中一些，如“不安”的比喻，为澳大利亚诗歌本身的阅读产生了有影响的诠释学——并将这些过去的阅读作为分析福加蒂诗学中复杂的修辞和诗歌游戏的切入点。反过来，它考虑了福格蒂对国际主义、解放主义和反殖民政治的持续承诺的诗意重要性，并将其视为团结的诗学。