Post-sixties Narratives in Contemporary American Cultural Criticism

摘要

ABSTRACTAs a special type of criticism, post-sixties narratives represent a very important part of contemporary American cultural criticism. These narratives shape the American collective memory and the national mood – the structure of feeling of American society. Russell Jacoby’s post-sixties narrative, from-bohemia-to-academia, is a case in point. It posits Bohemia and Academia as two contrasting historical tropes, spatial tropes as well as political tropes, to represent contemporary American intellectual life. Such a “Bohemian narrative” offers the “against the grain” narrative tension in Jacoby’s post-sixties narrative. Examination of various post-sixties narratives may help us obtain a new perspective on contemporary American cultural criticism and, at the same time, deepen our understanding of contemporary American culture.摘要作为一种特殊的批评话语，后六十年代叙事代表了当代美国文化批评的重要部分。这些叙事塑造了美国集体记忆与国家情绪，即美国社会的情感结构。拉塞尔?雅各比的后六十年代叙事“从波西米亚到学院”就是这样一个例子，它将波西米亚与学院作为两个具有对比性的历史、空间和知识分子转喻，用于描述当代美国知识分子生活。这样的“波西米亚叙事”为雅各比的后六十年代叙事提供了某种“反主流”的叙事张力。检验各种后六十年代叙事为我们提供了研究当代美国文化批评的新视野，加深了对当代美国文化的理解。