论后殖民文学的名与实

On the Concept and Connotation of the Postcolonial Literature

后殖民理论在中国研究三十年,但后殖民文学的概念与内涵却较为含糊。后殖民概念的发展与殖民主义、帝国主义之间密切关联,因此后殖民文学的发展与殖民文学、殖民主义文学之间具有强烈的承继关系和解构意识。后殖民文学应该被看做是萨义德为首的后殖民批评家以后殖民理论观照西方自扩张时期至今的文本,并进行的西方中心主义批判,及阿什克罗夫发展自＂英联邦文学＂研究的跨民族、跨区域的梳理殖民文化遗产的文学与文化关系研究。对后殖民文学名与实的重新辨析将有助于我们在教学与科研中有效地选择文本和阐释文本。

the postcolonial literature has been kept misreading in the past decades.Postcolonialism has a close relation with colonialism and imperialism.The postcolonial literature is closely connected with colonial literature and colonialism literature,but it deconstructs them in some way.So the postcolonial literature should be seen as two models.They are a text interpretation by Edward Said and postcolonial critics for criticizing western centrism,and a trans-national or trans-regional literary text studied by Ashcroft for exploring their cultural relation from colonial legacy.It will be helpful for us to efficiently choose and study postcolonial literary texts.