Abstract: In the poststructural environment beginning from the 1970s, such cultural and critical thoughts as New Historicism and Postcolonialism have significantly enriched and expanded the concept of world literature and contributed to the reconstruction of Western literary canon. With the pervasive impacts of these thoughts, the traditional boundaries of world literature have been fundamentally loosened, if not disintegrated, leading to more and more opening and tolerance for marginal cultures, subaltern cultures and minority cultures in the canons. The world-renowned anthologies such as the Norton and the Longman anthologies have increasingly become more tolerant and plural in both theoretical and practical dimensions. This “swerving” has brought about not only changes in literary studies and the compiling of literary anthologies, but also in our ways of looking at the concepts of world literature, the traditional Western canon, and literary history.

Key words: New Historicism, Postcolonialism, world literature, canonical reconstruction

摘要： 本文主要探讨了在马克思主义和后结构主义的大语境中,新历史主义、后殖民主义等理论思潮对世界文学概念的不断丰富、拓展和对西方文学经典的重构。世界文学在新历史主义等思潮的冲击之下出现了疆界的松动,逐步走向对边缘文化、下层文化、少数族裔文化等一切非传统经典文化的不断开放和包容。包括格林布拉特主编的《诺顿英文选集》、普契纳主编的《诺顿世界文学选集》和达姆罗什主编的《朗文世界文学选集》等知名文学选集,都不断变得更加包容和多元化。这一转向给我们带来的不仅是在文学研究、文选编纂和教科书编写等实践层面的改变,更为深远的则是人们在看待传统的西方经典、文学史和世界文学的观念上的巨大转变。

关键词: 新历史主义, 后殖民主义, 世界文学, 经典重构