西方旅行文学研究:从湮没到勃兴

Western Travel Literature Studies:From Obscurity to Prosperity

旅行文学是旅行的文学发生学再现,在整个人类文化史上占有巨大的比重。但是,由于人文学界对旅游的鄙视以及旅行文学自身范式的芜杂性,旅行文学研究尤其是西方旅行文学研究长久以来处于湮没之中,缺乏应有的关注。20世纪八十年代以来,随着人类学、文学发生学、后殖民主义文化理论的倡导和带飞,旅行文学这种久被忽视的文学范式终于受到西方理论界的重视,关于旅行和旅行文学的研究已经成为当代西方文学理论界的显学。揭示西方旅行文学研究从湮没到勃兴的历程,对于学界了解人类学、文学发生学和后殖民主义文化学对旅行文学的拯救以及彼此之间的借壳发展关系,具有重要的学术意义。

As the literary genealogical representation of travel events,travel literature accounts for a great proportion of the history of human culture.However,due to the disdain for tourism within the humanities and the heterogeneity of the travel literature itself,research on travel literature,especially Western travel literature,has long been marginalized and lacked the attention it deserves in academia.Since the 1980s,with the advocacy and promotion of anthropology,literary phenomenology,and postcolonial cultural theory,the long-overlooked literary paradigm of travel literature has finally gained attention,and the study of travel and travel literature has now become even more prosperous in the field of Western literary criticism.Revealing the trajectory of Western travel literature research from obscurity to prosperity is of vital significance for the academic world to understand how anthropology,literary phenomenology,and postcolonial cultural studies have contributed to the revitalization of travel literature research and their interrelated developmental relationships.