加拿大黑人文学的谱系建构——评《反思黑色大西洋:加拿大黑人文学、文化史和历史的在场》

温福瑞德·西默林的近著《反思黑色大西洋:加拿大黑人文学、文化史和历史的在场》是国外学界对加拿大黑人文学的首次系统考察。该书糅合了民族主义和跨民族主义视角,深入探讨了加拿大黑人文学的历史渊源、加拿大文学史重写和当代加拿大黑人文学的历史意识等问题。其学术价值主要在于构建出加拿大黑人文学的谱系,阐明了加拿大黑人文学的历史性、经典性和特殊性,进一步夯实了国外加拿大黑人文学研究的基础。

Winfried Siemerling’s recent book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing,Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past is the first systematic study on Black Canadian Literature. Combining nationalism with trans-nationalism,the book explores in depth the historical origins of Black Canadian Literature,the rewriting of Canadian literary history and the historical consciousness of contemporary Black Canadian Literature. Its academic value lies in the fact that,by constructing the genealogy and enunciating the historicity,canonicity and peculiarity of Black Canadian Literature,the book further solidifies the groundwork of overseas research.