历史、语言、理论:丹尼斯·沃德的后殖民文学批评观

History,Language,Theory:Dennis Walder's Views on Post-Colonial Literary Criticism

南非学者丹尼斯·沃德认为后殖民历史、语言和理论分别为后殖民文学研究提供语境、工具和方法。因此,在其著作《英语后殖民文学:历史、语言、理论》中,他从历史、语言和理论的角度重新审视后殖民文学的语境,分析后殖民文学写作中语言选择的困境及其折射出的殖民心态,探讨后殖民文学批评方法的形成与发展及其重要作用,理性思考后殖民之后的英语文学研究发展方向,全面阐释了他的后殖民文学批评观。

Dennis Walder,a South African scholar,holds that ＂history has to do with context; language with medium; and theory,with approach. ＂Therefore,in his book Post-Colonial Literatures in English： History,Language,Theory,Wader guides the reader through the historical,linguistic,and theoretical issues that inform post-colonial literary study. He rationally reexamines the colonial history which serves as postcolonial literary context,analyses the colonizing mentality reflected from language-choosing predicament in post-colonial literary writings or otherwise,describes and discusses the historical and cultural background and the importance of post-colonial literary theory,and ponders on the situation of post-colonial literatures in English after post-colonialism. Thus he expounds his views on post-colonial literary criticism in a comprehensive way.