讲题： Misfit: The Poetry of Xu Lizhi
（错位：许立志的诗歌）
演讲摘要：
ABSTRACTS Battlers poetry (打工诗歌), better known in English as migrant worker poetry, is writing by members of the Chinese precariat, specifically the underclass of domestic migrants who have flocked from the countryside to the cities in the hundreds of millions since the 1980s. The hardships and the social injustice of migrant worker life are among its most prominent themes: dehumanizing labor conditions, feelings of displacement, nostalgia, and existential alienation, a vulnerable status as non-citizens without the coveted urban household registration and steady work, and so on. Since the 2000s, the web and social media have given it tremendous exposure, trickling beyond China’s borders in recent years. So what kind of writing is this, what does it do, and what can it tell us about literature in postsocialist China? The poetry of Xu Lizhi 许立志, who has been a figurehead of the genre ever since his suicide in 2014, offers powerful material for tackling these questions—which have often been framed in a convenient but potentially misleading opposition of high social significance and low aesthetic value. First, as it turns out, Xu Lizhi complicates orderly classifications of Battlers poetry; and in the bigger picture, Battlers poetry complicates orderly classifications of literature. Among other things, this may help us to revisit the notion of engaging with literature “on its own terms.” Also, or especially, for writing that is less invested in artistic autonomy than the texts that tend to make it into the canon.
摘要译文：
在英文当中，“打工诗歌”更为人所知的是“农民工诗歌”这个说法。这种诗歌的作者是中国的无业游民，特别是那些从1980年代以来、从农村涌入大城市的移民大军中的“下层阶级”。打工生活的艰难困苦和社会不公是这些诗歌最显著的主题：非人性的劳动条件，流离失所的情绪，乡愁怀旧，存在的疏离感，作为没有令人羡慕的户口和稳定工作的外来人口的脆弱处境，等等。自从2000年以来，网络和社交媒体开始大量曝光这种打工诗歌，近年来甚至逸出了中国的边界。那么，这究竟是什么类型的作品？它起了什么作用？在后社会主义的中国，打工诗歌能告诉我们关于文学的何种信息？ 自从许立志在2014年自杀以来，他一直就是这种文类的“代表人物”。他的诗歌对思索上述问题，提供了有力的材料。这些问题，一直被框定在高度社会意义和低等美学价值的二元对立当中，这虽然是方便的归纳，但潜在地有误导的作用。 首先，正如后来证明的那样，许立志使得打工诗歌的井然有序的分类变得复杂化了；在更大的方面，打工诗歌甚至让文学的清晰的分类标准复杂化了。我们意识到这点，会有助于我们在接近文学作品时“使用文本本身提供给我们的标准”，尤其是在考虑未必那么重视艺术自主性、也未必进入所谓经典的诸多文本。
主持人：
陆镜光教授
南洋理工大学人文学院院长
日期：2019年1月18日（星期五）
时间：下午5时30分至6时30分
地点：NTU Campus (Venue TBC)
主办机构：
南洋理工大学中华语言文化中心、中文系
南洋大学毕业生协会