Author：Jiexin Yi, Liangdie Huang

Abstract: The representation of chivalry in Vasconselos by American Southern writer William Gilmore Simms, out of the cultural heritage of Middle Ages and the indigenous culture of the United States, boasts strong realistic allusions. The protagonist Philip Vasconselos’s choice of justice rather than loyalty as chivalric virtues alludes to the stance of the American South holding fast to slavery at the price of secession. His pursuit of love and home instead of expedition and treasure-hunting as chivalric paradigms gives prominence to the positive role of family in counteracting the negative influences of expansionism on society....

Column：American Literature Studies   125-135   Details

Author：Xiuxia Chen

Abstract: Russell Atkins is an African American postmodern avant-garde poet renowned for his dedication to breaking with tradition and innovating in poetics. His poetry-dramas exemplify his “deviating” poetics. Atkins crafts his poetry-dramas in “music-form,” employs innovative gothic narration to subtly convey his rebellion against racism, and creates the interdisciplinary theory of Psychovisualism, which he applies to his poetry-dramas writing. His work represents an experiment in postmodern avant-garde poetics, an interdisciplinary aesthetic construction, and most significantly, a challenge to the hegemony of western white culture and a new attempt at formulating language rules by an African American writer.

Column：American Literature Studies   136-147   Details

Author：Yiwen Wen

Abstract: An Interview with Professor Wang Jiaxiang on Her Study, Translation, and Teaching

Column：Lushan Bitan   148-156   Details