在当今的中外文学研究中，海外华人文学是一个非常奇特的领域，既非“中”（就其发生的社会背景论），又非“外”（就其语言表达的文化影响论），既沾“中”，又涉“外”，初看似乎天空地广，大可游刃有余，待到真正进入，不少研究者才知道很难找到深入之处，更难有势如破竹的 In today’s Chinese and foreign literary studies, overseas Chinese literature is a very strange field. It is neither “middle” (in terms of its social context) nor “foreign” (in terms of the cultural influence of language) Dip “in”, but also “outside”, at first glance seems sky wide, ease, until the real entry, many researchers know it is difficult to find in-depth, more difficult to forceful