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Jean Wagner’s most enduring contribution to the study of Afro-American poetry is his insistence that it be analyzed in a religious, as well as secular, frame of reference. The appropriateness of such an approach may seem self-evident for a tradition commencing with spirituals and owning its early forms, rhythms, vocabulary, and evangelical fervor to Wesleyan hymnals. But before Wagner a secular outlook that analyzed Black poetry solely within the context of political and social protest was dominant in the field.
It is Wagner who first demonstrated the essential fusion of racial and religious feeling in Afro-American poetry. The two, he argued, form a symbiotic union in which religious feelings are often applied to racial issues and racial problems are often projected onto a metaphysical plane. Wagner found this most eloquently illustrated in the Black spiritual, where the desire for freedom in this word and the hope for salvation in the next are inextricably intertwined.
主题是神马啊-- by 会员 呆呆佳 (2012/2/26 13:01:38)
我大致翻一下：主题就是Ｗ坚持在分析黑人诗歌时候要融入宗教和种族因素
JW对美国黑人诗歌的最大贡献在于他对美国黑人诗歌在一个既宗教也世俗的标准下分析的坚持。这种做法在最初的圣歌和拥有形式、节奏、词汇和对卫斯理诗歌的福音般的热情上看起来是显而易见的，但在W之前，对黑人诗歌的分析只限于它政治和社会保护处于极重要的地位这样的题材上。
W是一个宣称要在黑人诗歌里面融入种族和宗教感受的必要的人，这两者在他看来是共生的整体，宗教感受经常被用于种族问题，种族问题又投射到一个形而上的水平，W发现这在黑人圣歌里被很好的说明，圣歌中这句里面对自由的渴望和下句里面对被拯救的希望是不可避免的纠缠在一起。 | 
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