喻指理论：《诺顿非裔美国文学选集》的文学史观

外国文学研究 ›› 2017, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (4): 116-124.

喻指理论：《诺顿非裔美国文学选集》的文学史观

方红

出版日期:2017-08-25 发布日期:2022-06-15
作者简介:方红,南京大学教授,主要研究方向为美国少数族裔文学、生态批评、英语女性文学。
基金资助:
本文系作者主持的教育部人文社科项目“盖茨对美国非裔文学建构的影响”【项目批号：09YJA75201】的阶段性成果

Signifying Theory: The Historical View of Literature Represented by Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Fang Hong

Online:2017-08-25 Published:2022-06-15
About author:Fang Hong is professor of English at the School of Foreign Studies, Nanjing University (Nanjing 210093, China). Her academic interests are ethnic literature, ecocriticism and women's writings in English. Email: fanghong@nju.edu.cn

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 本文从美国非裔文学之源、话语“黑人性”与黑人文选经典化三个方面入手,提出《诺顿美国非裔文学选集》以喻指理论为文学史观,建构了黑人说话书本的历史,展示口语与文本彼此交融的黑人文学传统,突出非裔文学经典之间重复与修正的喻指关系。这部文学选集在跻身于美国文选经典之列的同时,亦成功颠覆了美国文学史的欧洲/白人中心论,体现出喻指言说既依赖又抗拒的批评姿态。

关键词: 文学史, 喻指, 土语, 说话书本, 话语黑人性

Abstract: By exploring the origin of African American literature, its discursive blackness as well as the canonization of the black anthology, this paper proposes that Norton Anthology of African American Literature, with the Signifying Theory as its historical view of literature, establishes the black talk book tradition, revealing a literary tradition of the black vernacular penetrating into the black written texts. It highlights the signifying relation among the black classics in form of repeating and revising each other. By canonizing itself among the anthologies of American Literature, this anthology successfully subverts the Euro-centered and White-centered American literary history, revealing both reliance and resistance which are typical of the critical gesture of the signifying discourse.

Key words: history of literature, signifying, vernacular, talk book, discursive blackness

方红. 喻指理论：《诺顿非裔美国文学选集》的文学史观[J]. 外国文学研究, 2017, 39(4): 116-124.

Fang Hong. Signifying Theory: The Historical View of Literature Represented by Norton Anthology of African American Literature[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2017, 39(4): 116-124.

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