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中英互译比赛原文

中英互译比赛原文

英译汉竞赛原文：

The Posteverything Generation

I never expected to gain any new insight into the nature of

my generation, or the changing landscape of American colleges,

in Lit Theory. Lit Theory is supposed to be the class where you sit

at the back of the room with every other jaded sophomore

wearing skinny jeans, thick-framed glasses, an ironic tee-shirt and

over-sized retro headphones, just waiting for lecture to be over

so you can light up a Turkish Gold and walk to lunch while

listening to Wilco. That’s pretty much the way I spent the course,

too: through structuralism, formalism, gender theory, and post-

colonialism, I was far too busy shuffling through my Ipod to see

what the patriarchal world order of capitalist oppression had to

do with Ethan Frome. But when we began to study

postmodernism, something struck a chord with me and made me

sit up and look anew at the seemingly blasé college-aged literati

of which I was so self-consciously one.

According to my textbook, the problem with defining

postmodernism is that it’s impossible. The difficulty is that it is

so...post. It defines itself so negatively against what came before

it – naturalism, romanticism and the wild revolution of

modernism – that it’s sometimes hard to see what it actually is.

It denies that anything can be explained neatly or even at all. It is

parodic, detached, strange, and sometimes menacing to

traditionalists who do not understand it. Although it arose in the

post-war west (the term was coined in 1949), the generation that

has witnessed its ascendance has yet to come up with an

explanation of what postmodern attitudes mean for the future of

culture or society. The subject intrigued me because, in a class

otherwise consumed by dead-letter theories, postmodernism

remained an open book, tempting to the young and curious. But

it also intrigued me because the question of what

postmodernism – what a movement so post-everything, so

reticent to define itself – is spoke to a larger question about the

political and popular culture of today, of the other jaded

sophomores sitting around me who had grown up in a

postmodern world.

In many ways, as a college-aged generation, we are also

extremely post: post-Cold War, post-industrial, post-baby boom,

at one point in his famous essay, “Postmodernism,

or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” literary critic Frederic

Jameson even calls us “post-literate.” We are a generation that

is riding on the tail-end of a century of war and revolution that

toppled civilizations, overturned repressive social orders, and left

us with more privilege and opportunity than any other society in

history. Ours could be an era to accomplish anything.

And yet do we take to the streets and the airwaves and say

“here we are, and this is what we demand”? Do we plant our

flag of youthful rebellion on the mall in Washington and say “we

are

not leaving until we see change! Our eyes have been opened

by our education and our conception of what is possible has

been expanded by our privilege and we demand a better world

because it is our right”? It would seem we do the opposite. We

go to war without so much as questioning the rationale, we sign

away our civil liberties, we say nothing when the Supreme Court

uses Brown v. Board of Education to outlaw desegregation, and

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