ABSTRACT

In the absence of a wide-ranging literary history that would take into account both the initial impetus for New Narrative’s creation and the changes wrought as a younger generation came on the scene, New Narrative can seem rather monolithic as a movement. A newcomer to New Narrative may be left with the false impression that the ideas first proposed by Bruce Boone and Robert Glück remained relatively static over time. This essay attempts to expand the historical frame previously applied to New Narrative. Thinking genealogically about the movement and examining different writers’ approaches to politics especially, it traces the shift from first to second generation, building on previous attempts to narrate New Narrative’s complex story.

摘要

在没有广泛的文学史，将考虑到双方新叙事的创作最初的动力和锻造作为年轻一代来到现场的变化，新的叙事似乎而是整体的运动。新叙事的新手可能会留下这样的错误印象，即布鲁斯·布恩 (Bruce Boone) 和罗伯特·格鲁克 (Robert Glück) 最初提出的想法随着时间的推移保持相对静止。本文试图扩展先前应用于新叙事的历史框架。对这场运动进行谱系思考，特别是检查不同作家的政治方法，它追溯了从第一代到第二代的转变，建立在先前试图叙述新叙事复杂故事的基础上。