一、引言当代世界英语文学创作及其研究是在多元文化语境中进行的。在多元文化格局中,一直在世界英语文学发展史中占主流地位的英美文学及其研究面临着与其他英语国家文学甚至是本国内非族裔文学及其文学活动如何面对的问题。根据后殖民主义理论的观点,当弱势文化对强势文化的文学进行阅读时,阐释的视角与立场往往受到文化等级差别的影响。因此,长期以来,一直存在一种自动认同英美文学作为英语文学引领者地位的倾向,甚至存在将英语文学与英美文学 I. INTRODUCTION Contemporary English literature and its research are carried out in a multi-cultural context. In the multi-cultural landscape, Anglo-American literature and its research, which have been dominant in the history of world English literature, are confronted with how to deal with non-ethnic literary and other literary activities in other English-speaking countries and even their own countries. According to the theory of post-colonialism, when disadvantaged cultures read the literature of a strong culture, the perspectives and positions of interpretation are often influenced by differences in cultural levels. Therefore, for a long time, there has always been a tendency to automatically recognize Anglo-American literature as the leader of English literature, and even there exists a tendency to combine English literature with Anglo-American literature