实用批评:非洲文学批评的总体特色

Pragmatic Criticism:General Characteristics of African Literary Criticism

非洲批评家往往从社会—文化的角度切入非洲文学批评,他们更多地关注文学的社会、文化、政治等方面的因素,将文学批评看成社会批评的一部分,强调文学批评的功利性和实用性。他们并不拘泥于某一特定的文学批评方法,而是从实用的目的出发采取最合适的方法。他们对文学形式本身并不十分关注,甚至将文学形式本身也看成是文学的社会因素的构成部分。

African literary critics usually adopt socialcultural approach when they are engaged in African literary criticism. They pay more attention to such factors as social, cultural and political ones. They view literary criticism as a part of social criticism. While not rigidly adhering to certain special literary criticism approach, they adopt the suitable approaches for the pragmatic sake. They don＇t pay close attention to literary form itself, and even regard the literary form itself as a part of social factor of literature.