《贸易客源国概况》课件——2-9-2 20世纪80年代以来的文学Literature since the 1980s.ppt

Literaturesincethe1980s授课教师马爱梅

Inthe1980s,socialandpoliticalcircumstancescontinuedtochange,andCanadiansocietyprogressedtowardsamoremulticulturalanddiverseculture.Withethedemiseofliterarynationalisminthe1980s,literarypracticesdiversified,andthereemergedapluralisticaestheticsbehindliteraryrepresentations.

Therearethreemajorcharacteristicsthatmaysummarizetheliteraryproductionsincethe1980s.First,Canadianliteraturecometotakeonapluralisticaspectinbothformandcontent.

Second,therehasbeenamarkedincreaseinthehistoricalconsequencesaswellaslegaciesofcolonialisminCanada,inahistoricalcontextinwhichCanadiansocietycametobeperceivedmoreandmoreasaninvader-settlersociety.

Third,inconnectionwiththegeneralinterestinthecolonialpast,thereemergedaprevalenttrendofnarratinghistoryinfictionalforms.

Beginninginthe1980s,manyofthewritersthathadestablishedreputationsinthepreviousdecadescontinuedtopublishmorebooksandthethematicscopeandsocialconcernhadwidenedinthenewpost-nationalistcontext..

Manypoetstookinterestinlyricalpoetryinaserialform.Astrongcurrentofhistoriographicalfictionthatcrossesthebordersbetweenhistory,story,andbiographywasclearlyidentifiableinthe1980s

Identity,belongingsandimaginationarethehauntingthemesformanyCanadian-bornethnicwriterswhohavetocometotermswithculturaldisplacementandrelocation.EcologicalconcernsgraduallybecameoneoftheprominenttopicsofCanadianliteraturesincethe1990s.

Novelistsalsocametoaddresstheproblemofenvironmentethics,animalsubject,andnaturewithstrongevidenceofarevoltagainsttraditionalanthropocentrism.LiteraryvoicesarebecomingmorepolyphonicasCanada’sculturaldiversitydeepens

TishGroup,CarolShields,MargaretAtwood,DonMckay,JaneUrquhart,ThomasKing,etc.

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