他者·理论·异国情调:新历史主义文论中的“中国”

The Other, Theory, and the Exotic: “China” in New Historicist Literary Theory

新历史主义文论解构了历史哲学,并重构了叙事主义的后现代主义历史叙事学,改变了中西方人文社会科学领域的思维方式。作为历史研究对象的中国,在新历史主义批评家那里,却以"作为他者""作为理论""作为异国情调"等方式,成为元史学、话语转义、文化诗学、主体自我塑型等理论的印证材料和批评实践。在新历史主义文论中的中国问题这一问题域中,不仅存在"西方/东方""资本主义/社会主义""现代/传统""自我/他者"等二元对立的思维,而且存在着把西方化等同于世界化、将东方"他者化"等倾向。

The new historicist literary theory is changing the mode of thinking in the humanities and social sciences in China and the West by way of deconstructing historical philosophy and reconstructing the postmodernist historical narratology.And China,as the object of historical study,is serving "as the Other", "as a theory",or "as the exotic" among new historicist literary critics,confirming their so-called meta-history,discourse translation,cultural poetics,subject self-shaping,etc.In the "China problems" of the new historicist literary discourse,there is not only rampant dualistic opposites such as "the West vs.the East", "apitalism vs.socialism", "modernity vs.tradition" and "self vs.other",but also the tendency to equate Westernization with globalization,with the Orient being "Otherized".