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The Posteverything Generation

“后”一切的一代

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.

我从来没有指望通过上文学理论课来了解我们这一代人的特征，或美国大学不断变化

的景象。 这门课实际是这样的，你和其他面容疲惫的大二学生一起坐在房间后面，他们身

穿紧身牛仔裤和印有俏皮话的T恤，戴着黑框眼镜和超大的复古耳机，等课堂的结束后，

你就会情绪高涨地在去吃午餐的路上边走边听威尔克的音乐。 我差不多就是这样上课的：

一边听什么结构主义、形式主义、性别理论和后殖民主义的话题，一边用我的iPod搜好听

的音乐， 也没时间去理会伊坦·弗洛美提出的资本主义压迫下的父权社会是什么样的。但

当我们开始研究后现代主义时，一些观念引起了我的共鸣，让我提起精神，重新审视这个

看似冷漠的大学生活。

According to my textbook, the problem with defining postmodernism is that

it’s impossible. The difficulty is that it 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.

根据我的课本，从定义的角度来说，后现代主义是很难定义的。我们所面临的困难是

它太···“后”了。它的定义消极地否定了先于它的自然主义、浪漫主义和疯狂的现主义革

命---因此有时很难看清它到底指什么。它否认任何事物都可以很好地或甚至是完全解释出

来。它是模仿性的、分离的、陌生的，并且有时会威胁到根本不理解它的传统主义者。虽

然它出现在战后的西方国家，但迄今为止还没有一个合理的解释，后现代主义态度对国家

和社会的未来到底意味什么。这个话题引起了我的好奇心，因为在充斥着空文理论的阶级

下，后现代主义是一本打开的书，引诱着年轻人和充满好奇心的人。但我对它感兴趣还因

为这个关于后现代主的问题--- “后”一切运动如此紧谨慎地界定自己，如今却面临着更

大的有关政治和流行文化的问题，而它所说的似乎正是我身边这些不顾一屑的朋友们。

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