This article focuses on three themes in contemporary Chinese-language verse from Indonesia: nationhood, language use, and the trauma of history. Through these themes, Chinese-language poets in Indonesia work through the many ways of being a speaker of Chinese in Indonesia, sometimes as an excluded alien, sometimes as a valued ally, and sometimes as an integrated minority. Such work provides unusual perspectives and tones to contribute to the much-discussed questions of Chinese-Indonesian identity, and functions as a reminder that literary corpora diverge within the “same” ethnic minority by linguistic expression. Borrowing a line from one of the most active poets, Sha Ping, this article suggests that Indonesians writing in Chinese are engaged on a quest to “find the distant homeland here” in Indonesia, even as they honor the trauma of history, the achievements of China, and the language of their ancestors.

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“在这里寻找遥远的故乡”：当代印尼中文诗歌

本文重点关注印度尼西亚当代汉语诗歌的三个主题：民族身份、语言使用和历史创伤。通过这些主题，印度尼西亚的华语诗人通过多种方式成为印度尼西亚的华人，有时作为被排斥的外来者，有时作为重要的盟友，有时作为一个完整的少数群体。此类作品提供了不同寻常的视角和基调，有助于解决备受讨论的华裔印尼人身份认同问题，并提醒人们文学语料库在“同一”少数民族中因语言表达而不同。借用最活跃的诗人之一沙平的诗句，这篇文章暗示用中文写作的印度尼西亚人正在寻求在印度尼西亚“在这里找到遥远的家园”，即使他们尊重历史的创伤，