论后殖民批评对“世界文学”的挑战--以阿米尔·穆夫提为中心

On the Challenge of Postcolonial Criticism to“World Literature”:Centered on Aamir Mufti

当代后殖民批评家意欲寻找使人类更充分应对全球文化新格局的方法和可能性。阿米尔•穆夫提试图通过激活其师萨义德的东方主义批判遗产以挑战“世界文学”理论。他认为,“世界文学”和英语通过东方主义这个中介实现霸权。东方主义和“世界文学”是帝国主义文化图绘系统得以有效表达的方法。他甚至喊出“忘记英语”的口号。他的“世俗批评”方案既反对“世界文学”概念的霸权野心,又认识到用其来思考的不可避免性。哈菲兹和甘古利以不同的方式回应了穆夫提的观点。“世界文学”如何摆脱其或隐或现的不平等性依然是一个值得讨论的问题。

Some contemporary postcolonial critics keep searching for ways and possibilities to cope with the hierarchies of global culture.Aamir Mufti attempts to challenge the theoretical craze of“world literature”by reviving his supervisor Said’s critical legacy of Orientalism.He believes that“world literature”and English achieve hegemony through Orientalism.Orientalism and“world literature”are the intermediary by which the imperialist cultural system can be effectively expressed.He even shouts the slogan“Forget English”.His project of“secular criticism”resists the hegemony of“world literature”,but he also recognizes the inevitability of thinking in“world literature”.Sabry Hafez and Debjani Ganguly respond to Mufti’s argument in different ways.How“world literature”escapes its implicit and explicit inequalities remains a matter of debate.