“后理论”时代的新世界文学

The Characteristics and Limitation of the Paradigm of“New World Literature”:Thomas Kuhn’s Inspiration for Humanities

"新世界文学"始于1990年代,与"后理论"同步出现,体现了相同的知识态度和批评气质。"后理论"面对的资本主义"全球化"问题使得"民族""族群"等单一概念无法概括和命名最新的现象,新世界文学积极回应时代提出的"全球本土化"等跨界概念;理论界也认识到大数据的兴起和认知方式的改变,新世界文学引领了"远读"和"缩放阅读"讨论;它们都受惠于解构主义对语言和文本的关注,因此都体现出对语文学回归的热情;"后理论"的多元主义,与新世界文学的视角主义也有同构关系。

The starting point of the“New World Literature”was located in the 1990s.It coincided with the emergence of the“post-theory”,and reflected the same intellectual attitude and critical temperament.The globalization of capitalism faced by“post-theory”makes it impossible for single concepts such as“nation”and“ethnicity”to generalize and name the latest phenomena,and new world literature actively responds to the cross-border concepts such as“global localization”put forward by the times.The theoretical community also recognizes the rise of big data and changes in cognitive methods,and new world literature has led the discussion of“distant reading”and“scalable reading”.They all have benefited from the deconstructionist concern for language and text,and they all show enthusiasm for“return to Philology.”The post-theoretical pluralism has the same structure with the perspectivism of the new world literature.