20世纪美国文学中最有争议的现象就是后现代主义,而少数族裔文学的兴起是美国后现代的最重要的特征之一。面对美国现代主义和早期的后现代主义作家所遗留下来的文学遗产,各个族裔的作家不断地利用自己本民族的神话、历史、传说等文化来解构白人的、欧源的、族裔的主流文化中心,通过对于本民族历史的回忆和再现来定义自身文明存 The most controversial phenomenon in American literature in the 20th century is postmodernism, and the rise of minority literature is one of the most important characteristics of post-modernism in the United States. Faced with the legacy of American modernism and early postmodern writers, writers of all ethnic groups continue to use their own national myths, history, legends and other cultures to deconstruct white, European, ethnic The mainstream cultural center defines its own civilization by recalling and reproducing its own national history