期刊名称：E-rea : Revue Électronique d’Études sur le Monde Anglophone
电子版ISSN：1638-1718
出版年度：2006
卷号：4
期号：2
页码：1
出版社：Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
摘要：Bruce King’s The Internationalization of English Literature is the concluding volume of the Oxford English Literary History thirteen-volume series, a fitting conclusion that shows how black and Asian writers, whether immigrants themselves or the sons and daughters of immigrants, reshaped and revitalized English literature, rescuing it from the trap of Little Englandism and navel-gazing. The title sounds paradoxical – how can a literature be both English (not just “in English”) and international? – but the paradox is appropriate. While much postcolonial theory deals with the dialectics of centre and periphery, King’s book is evidence that the periphery has come to the centre. It is not so much that the Empire writes back – it has, in a sense, joined the imperial centre and made itself at home there.
