【摘要】 神话意象是英国华人诗人李岩双语诗歌的独特中华文化符码。本文选取李岩刊于英国华人双语文学杂志《聚言集》的诗作中最富有中国传统神话色彩的乌鸦、鱼和龙女三个意象，探究其中蕴藏的丰富的文化、社会和历史内涵，揭示诗人的双语诗歌创作与英国华人的流散困境之间的关联。本文认为，李岩的双语诗歌借助中国史前神话意象，书写了华人在英国失语、求生和自我救赎的流散境遇，揭露了华人移民遭受排斥和歧视的历史以及他们的流散生存之道。从中国传统神话中汲取灵感，既反映了诗人对中华文化的高度认同和传承的自觉性，又体现出中华传统文化是海外华人定位自我，走出流散困境的思想指引。与此同时，李岩将史前神话意象写进双语诗歌，一方面丰富了英国华人诗歌的内容和形式，另一方面也表达了当代英国华人希望在海外弘扬中华传统文化的强烈愿望。更多还原

【Abstract】 Mythic images are the unique Chinese cultural codes in the British Chinese, Li Yan’s Chinese-English poetry. This article mainly analyzes three typical Chinese mythic images in Li’s works published in Brushstrokes, a British Chinese bilingual literary magazine, i.e. the crow, the fish, and the dragoness. The essay elucidates their multi-cultural, social and historical implications, revealing the correlation between the poet’s creation of bilingual poetry, and British Chinese’ diasporic dilemma. It argues that, through these prehistoric Chinese mythic images, Li’s bilingual poetry records the diasporic state of silence, survival, and self-salvation of the British Chinese, and unmasks their past of being marginalized and discriminated as well as their diasporic life. Drawing inspiration from traditional Chinese myths, the article shows the poet’s identification with and active inheritance of traditional Chinese culture, and proves that traditional Chinese culture provides ideological guidance for overseas Chinese’s self-positioning in the diasporic dilemma. Meanwhile, by writing prehistoric Chinese mythic images into his bilingual poetry, not only does Li enrich the content and form of British Chinese diaspora poetry, but he also expresses contemporary British Chinese’s strong desire for the promotion of traditional Chinese culture overseas.更多还原