摘要

國際寫作計劃（IWP）於1967年由美國詩人保羅安格爾與華裔小說家聶華苓在美國愛荷華大學共同創立。從1979至2019年，IWP共邀請了57名中國大陸作家“駐站”訪問。包括王安憶、莫言在內的一批當代作家通過IWP的平台感受美國文化，了解世界文學，探索個人身份，揣摩寫作技藝，甚至學習創意寫作的教學。中國文學與世界文學在IWP的曲折初遇為他們日後的個人創作及在中國大學建設創意寫作學科提供了靈感。總之，他們的作品和經歷都證明，中西之間的文化交流是動態、多向的。作為文學交流乃至文化外交的工具，“翻譯”成就了在特定的在地語境中，地域政治、經濟文化、個人動能等諸多因素對西方概念、敘事模式和文化機構的改編和重寫。

What happens when a US cultural institution is imported to China, the purported chief rival of the United States in the twenty-first century? The International Writing Program (IWP), co-founded by American poet Paul Engle and his wife, Sinophone novelist Hua-ling Nieh at the University of Iowa in 1967, invites writers from across the globe to reside in Iowa City for two months annually. Some of the Chinese visitors have spearheaded creative writing programs at Chinese universities based on their experiences with IWP and the world-renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop (IWW) since their initial encounters with the “other.” By telling a unique story of Chinese intellectuals’ interactions with an influential Western cultural institution, this talk shows how varied cultural and geopolitical priorities can rewrite the story of the global influence of the United States. Through this complex and dynamic cultural exchange, the talk also explores the fraught relationship between national literatures and world literature and queries the criteria for judging literature and translation. 

講者簡介

馮進，美國Grinnell College東亞系教授，Orville and Mary Patterson Routt 文學講席教授。已發表四本英文專著：The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Purdue University Press, 2004), The Making of a Family Saga (SUNY Press, 2009), Romancing the Internet (Brill, 2013), 和 Tasting Paradise on Earth (University of Washington Press, 2019); 三本中文作品，包括最近的《吃貨之書》 (江蘇鳳凰文藝，2020);以及多篇中英文論文。她關於中國大學創意寫作學科發展的英文專著即將由美國哥倫比亞大學出版社出版。

Jin Feng 馮進 is Professor of Chinese and Japanese and the Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Grinnell College, USA. She has published four English monographs: The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (Purdue University Press, 2004), The Making of a Family Saga (SUNY Press, 2009), Romancing the Internet (Brill, 2013), and Tasting Paradise on Earth (University of Washington Press, 2019), three Chinese books such as A Book for Foodies 吃貨之書 (Jiangsu Fenghuang Wenyi, 2020), and numerous articles in both English and Chinese. Her book on university-based creative writing programs in China is forthcoming from the Columbia University Press.