世界文学还是全球文学:西奥多·德汉教授访谈录（英文）

World Literature or Global Literature:An Interview with Professor Theodoor L.D'haen

西奥多·德汉是比利时鲁汶大学英语文学与比较文学教授、欧洲科学院院士、SSCI期刊《欧洲评论》主编。他的专著有《美国文学史》(2014)、《路特雷奇简明世界文学史》《当代美国犯罪小说》等。2017年5月,德汉教授在南京大学和中国矿业大学讲学期间,接受了何成洲教授和李淑玲副教授关于世界文学与全球文学的访谈。德汉教授从世界文学的不同定义以及他个人编写世界文学选集的原则谈起,着重阐述了当今世界文学研究的潜力、危险和不同声音。他还基于自己在后现代主义、后殖民主义、比较文学及世界文学领域的丰富研究,提出了超越后殖民主义、用"全球文学"替代"世界文学"的设想,以回避学界对于世界文学的一些质疑。

Theodoor Louis D’haen is Professor Emeritus of EnglishComparative Literature at Leuven University,Belgium,an elected member of Academia Europaea and editor-in-chief of the journal European Review.He is the author of American Literature：A History（2014）,The Routledge Concise History of World Literature（2012）,and Contemporary American Crime Fiction（2001）.When visiting Nanjing University and China University of Mining and Technology in May 2017,Prof.D’Haen is interviewed by Prof.He Chengzhou and Associate Professor Li Shuling on world literature and global literature.Beginning with various definitions of world literature,Prof.D’Haen illustrates his principles of editing world literature anthology,emphasizing the potential,the danger and the different new voices of today’s world literature studies.Based on his own studies on postmodernism,postcolonialism,comparative literature and world literature,Prof.D’Haen proposes to go beyond postcolonialism,and to replace＂world literature＂with＂global literature＂in order to avoid the negative connotations that some people have given to world literature.