文本性的盛宴:美国汉学现当代文学研究的亮点和拐点

A Feast of Textuality:Innovations and Pivots in Literary Studies of Contemporary American Sinology

美国汉学界对中国现代文学的关注始于夏志清的《中国现代小说史》,尔后经李欧梵、Julia Lin(林明晖)诸人的努力而成为"合法"的但仍然是零星学者辛勤耕耘的学术领域。自八十年代开始,美国的现当代中国文学研究发展迅速,逐渐成为汉学中的"显学"之一。新一代学者受益于理论的爆炸和拓展的文本,贡献了许多引人注目的亮点和拐点。

The study of modern Chinese literature in the United States starts with C.T. Hsia＇s mono- graph A History of Modern Chinese Fiction and continues through the efforts of scholars such as Leo Ou- fan Lee,Julia Lin,who have established modern Chinese literature as a ＂legitimate＂ field of inquiry in A- merican Sinology.Since the 1980s,the field has gone through periods of rapid growth during which a new generation of scholars, benefiting from the explosion of Theory and its expanded notion of textuality in par- ticular, have made significant advances in the understanding of modern and contemporary Chinese literature writers and their works.