不再等同于民族文学的美国文学——评《美国世界文学导论》A Review of American World Literature: An Introduction
周雪松;
Zhou Xuesong;School of International Studies, Center for the Studies of English and American Literature, Zhengzhou University;
摘要(Abstract)：
保罗·贾尔斯的《美国世界文学导论》旨在匡正主流美国文学史叙事因民族主义导向而造成的盲视,揭示美国文学与世界之间紧密多维的关联,提出了美国世界文学理论,依编年体例系统性地叙述了从殖民时期到21世纪的美国世界文学史,是一部开创性的美国文学研究专著。本书评通过梳理美国世界文学的研究现状,勾勒出该书的写作语境,剖析作者对美国世界文学进行理论建构的动因,把握该理论的要义,厘清美国世界文学与所谓"民族文学"的区别与重叠,概述作者就美国作家作品与世界互动的观点,还原其进行学术对话的对象与语境,从而呈现书中美国世界文学的总体轮廓,并评述这一文学史重构的意义与价值。
In American World Literature: An Introduction, Paul Giles aims to correct the nationalist slant in mainstream American literary historiography, and to reveal the multidimensional interplay between American literature and the world. The book is groundbreaking in both methodologically proposing the American world literary theory and systematically narrating the history of American world literature from the colonial period to the 21 st century. By analyzing the academic context within which Giles embarks on his studies, this review attempts to elucidate his theoretical construction of American literary world, and to summarize his commentary on the dynamics between American literature and the wilder world, hence the outline of American world literature will be presented, and the significance of the work will be explored.
关键词(KeyWords)：
美国世界文学;贾尔斯;民族主义;世界
American World Literature;Paul Giles;nationalism;world
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作者(Author):
周雪松;
Zhou Xuesong;School of International Studies, Center for the Studies of English and American Literature, Zhengzhou University;
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DOI: 10.16430/j.cnki.fl.2021.01.017
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- (1) 贾尔斯曾以“美国文学的解辖域化”为题在意大利、美国、英国等世界多地做过数次演讲，文字修订版收录于《行星的阴影：作为世界文学的美国文学》《美国文学的世界重绘》等书之中。