美国战争文学的两种基本类型探源

Two Basic Types of American War Literature

作为西方发达世界中的新大陆,美国的文学也具有卓然不群的内涵特质。而以独立战争为界限划分出的是美国文学的“前现代”与“现代”内涵类型,即早期的印第安文学、殖民文学与美国的国家民族文学。足见,战争对于美国文学的奠基性、本初性的“母题”价值地位。在这个基础框架之下继续追踪细分美国战争文学的类型,继而凝练其类型框架内部所独有的风格特质,再追问背后深层的、基于文本或基于作者的“内外共生”的艺术归因,这将是对文学进行内涵型分类的这种思维方法论应有的逻辑过程和价值体现。

As a new continent in the western developed world,American literature has its own unique connotation.The"pre modern"and"modern"connotation types of American literature,namely,early Indian literature,colonial literature and American national literature,are divided by the boundary of the war of independence.It can be seen that war is the fundamental and original"motif"of American literature.Under this basic framework,we will continue to trace and subdivide the types of American War literature,then refine the unique style characteristics within its type framework,and then question the deep-seated artistic attribution based on the text or the"internal and external symbiosis"of the author,which will be the logical process and value embodiment of this thinking methodology for the internal classification of literature.