1996年,当代非裔美国剧作家奥古斯特·威尔逊发表《我的立场》的演讲,1997年1月与导演、批评家罗伯特·布鲁斯坦进行面对面的辩论,提出资助、建立黑人剧院,拒绝不分种族地选择演员的主张,批评后者对文学普世性的片面认识,并引起学术界再次关注文学与种族、文学的本质与功能,以及文学的社会意义与审美价值等问题,丰富了人们对族裔文学的认识,拓展了欧美主流文学传统。 In 1996, contemporary African-American playwrccer August Wilson published a speech entitled “My Position”. In January 1997, he held a face-to-face debate with director and critic Robert Brostein, proposed funding to establish a black theater and rejected Criticizing the latter’s one-sided understanding of the universality of literature and arousing the attention of the academic circles once again to the issues such as the nature and function of literature and race, literature, and the social significance and aesthetic value of literature People’s understanding of ethnic literature has expanded the mainstream of European and American literary traditions.