摘要
西方学者将旅行写作的史前史上溯至《圣经》和《奥德赛》。自16世纪以来,写作就是旅行必不可少的组成部分,旅行写作被公众广泛阅读。但是直到20世纪80年代旅行写作才开始受到英美学界的严肃对待,并成为人文社会学科的重要研究对象,旅行写作的文化价值和诗学价值被肯定,并被视为最具文化、社会重要性的文类,它们记录了欧洲各国的民族自我认同和对于他者的界定。旅行写作研究关注旅行写作的修辞策略、话语体系及其文化再现与帝国知识生产、意识形态之间的关系,并在与他者相遇并再现他者的历史架构中书写了旅行写作的历史,考察了欧洲与他者相遇的历史经验及其对于"异族"的发现、观察、解释与再现。本文拟从旅行写作与帝国叙述、旅行写作史的建构、旅行写作的真实与虚构三个层面,对当代英美旅行写作研究予以评述。
The prehistory of travel writing is traced to the Bible and Odyssey. The writing became an essential part of travelling and popular with the reading public since the sixteenth century. Travel writing has not been taken seriously and emerged as a key theme for the hu- manities and social sciences until 1980s. Travel writing is regarded as the most socially and culturally important genre with cultural and poetic value which records how European na- tions identify themselves and others. Academics concentrate on rhetorical strategy and dis- course of travel writing and relationship between representation of culture and production of imperial knowledge. This article is to introduce the Anglo-American academic concentrations on travel writing by three dimensions ： imperial narratives and travel writing, construction of history of travel writing, authentic and untruthful travel accounts.
出处
《中国比较文学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2016年第1期153-163,共11页
Comparative Literature in China
基金
教育部规划基金项目"民国时期旅美游记文献整理与研究"(编号13YJA751007)成果
关键词
旅行写作
帝国叙述
异域再现
真实与虚假
travel writing
imperial narratives
representation of exotic locales
authentic-ity and untruth
