美国拉美裔文学研究的开山之作—评《当代美国拉美裔文学研究》

《当代美国拉美裔文学研究》(2014年)是国内当代美国拉美裔文学研究的开山之作。该书全面介绍了美国拉美裔文学的文化来源、文学分支、作家流散经历及化成身份的文学表达、人物多重文化身份的建构以及多元化的叙事方式等美国拉美裔文学的发展概况，并结合重点拉美裔作家及作品进行了逐一解析。该书有4大突出特点，一是问题意识，抓住当代美国拉美裔文学研究的关键问题；二是创新精神，采用了大量的第一手材料，内容新颖；三是历史本位，通过历史振叶寻根，观澜索源；四是综合方法，兼用历史学、政治学、社会学、文化学等诸多学科的研究材料和视角。本书论述严谨，具有很高的学术水准，对国内美国拉美裔文学研究做出了前所未有的贡献。 A Study on Contemporary American Latino Literature (2014) is “pioneer work” of domestic contemporary American Latino literature studies. The book is divided into six chapters, which introduces comprehensively the cultural source of American Latino literature, literary branches, the Diaspora experiences of writers, the literary expression of identity, the construction of the character’s multiple culture identity, diversified narrative methods and the general situation of American Latino literature, analyzing the main writers and their works one by one. A Study on Contemporary American Latino Literature has four prominent features. The first is the problem consciousness, seizing the key problems of contemporary American Latino literature study; the second is the creative spirit, using a large number of first-hand materials of novel content; the third is it is history oriented, shaking the leaves to find the roots and enjoy the stream to find the source through history; the fourth is its comprehensive method, using the research materials and perspectives of many other disciplines such as history, political science, sociology and culture. Rigorous in explicating, and high on academic level, the book makes unprecedented contribution to domestic American Latino literature study, which is hard to surpass.