“纽约文人”是美国于20世纪30年代中期至50年代末期活跃在纽约的一群犹太知识分子和文学批评家的统称。这个群体继承了美国左翼知识分子的激进传统,但又摆脱了老左派的布尔什维克主义,立足于文学想象与社会现实的辩证关系,对西方现代主义文学及美国本土文学进行研究,激活了富有美国特色的社会文化批评的传统。 “The New Yorker” is a collective term for a group of Jewish intellectuals and literary critics of the United States active in New York from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s. This group has inherited the radical tradition of the leftist intellectuals in the United States, but has also got rid of the Bolshevism of the old leftists. Based on the dialectical relationship between the imagination of literature and the social reality, this group studies western modernism literature and native American literature, and activates a nation full of American characteristics The tradition of social and cultural criticism.