90年代以来,悄然中已成声势的后殖民文学(Post-colonial literature)开始引起世界各地文化人士的广泛注意。图书业、出版业以及文学评论界均纷纷看好这支世界文坛的新生力量,给予了不同寻常的重视。近几年的诺贝尔文学奖以及英国的布克书奖,被连续授予后殖民文学作家,更为这支文坛新军鼓舞了士气。至此,始于文化批评的后殖民主义理论,融汇了全球政治与经济的大气候、大趋势,向第二次世界大战以来逐步走下坡路的西方文坛,输 Since the 1990s, quietly established post-colonial literature has begun to attract the attention of cultural people from all over the world. The book industry, publishing industry, and literary critics all liked the new force in this world literary arena and gave unusual attention. In recent years, the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize in Britain have been conferred on post-colonial writers in succession, inspiring the new army in this literary field. At this point, the theory of post-colonialism started from cultural criticism, which brought together the global climate of politics and economy, the general trend, the Western literary world that has been gradually declining since the Second World War,