Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

文学的政治性与历史性的文学解读（代序）

绪论

Chapter One Introduction

 1.1 The Postmodern Challenge to Historiography

 1.2 Historiographic Metafiction: A Postmodern Genre

 1.3 A Working Definition of "Political Engagement" in Literature

 1.4 Literature Review

Chapter Two Historiographic Metafiction: Reuniting theAesthetic with the Political

 2.1 Historiographic Metafiction versus Metafiction

 2.2 Historiographic Metafiction, the Historical Novel, and the Non-fictional Novel

 2.3 The Paradoxes of Historiographic Metafiction

2.3.1 Historicity and Discursiveness

2.3.2 Referentiality and Metafictionality

 2.4 Reuniting the Aesthetic with the Political

2.4.1 The Apolitical Stance of High Modernism and New Avant-Garde

2.4.2 From Political Apathy to Political Engagement: Change of Dominant

Chapter Three E.L.Doetorow's The Book of Daniel:Putting America on Trial

 3.1 Daniel Writing His Own Book as the Heir of the "Atomic Spies"

 3.2 Traumatizing the Survivals and Putting America on Trial

 3.3 From the Old Left Communists to the New Left Students

Chapter Four Robert Coover's The Public Burning: Staging the Miscarriage of Justice

 4.1 Nixon Recounting His Independent Investigation of the Rosenberg Case

 4.2 Creating a Carnival of Shame and Staging the Miscarriage of Justice

 4.3 From Cold War Paranoia to the Watergate Scandal

Chapter Five Don DeLillo's Libra: Refuting the "Official Truth"

 5.1 Nicholas Branch Composing His Secret History of the Assassination

 5.2 Refuting the Official Narrative and Revealing the Alternative Truth

 5.3 From the Kennedy Assassination to the Iran-Contra Affair

Chapter Six Conclusion

Works Cited

Appendices

 Appendix I: Dwelling in the Ambiguity of History: An Interview with E.L.Doctorow

 Appendix II: Getting inside the Stories: An Interview with Robert Coover

 Appendix III: Keeping Fiction Alive: An Interview with Don DeLillo

陈俊松编著的《当代美国编史性元小说中的政治介入》以“编史性元小说”这种典型的后现代主义文类为考察对象，从新历史主义的批评视角出发，深入探讨美国晚期后现代主义文学中的政治转向。

文学与历史、政治之间从来都是有着千丝万缕的关联，相互影响，彼此映射。政治事件，尤其是标志性的政治事件，从来都是作家密切关注和力求书写的对象。本书选取多克特罗的《但理以书》、库弗的《火刑示众》和德里罗的《天秤星座》为研究对象，将这三部最具代表性的“编史性元小说”置入上世纪冷战时期的“罗森堡间谍案”和“肯尼迪遇刺”这两个事件的历史背景和作家写作当时所处的政治氛围中进行解读。在文本细读的基础上，本书考察了3部作品中重返历史、书写政治事件、介入现实政治生活等共同特征，揭示出当代美国编史性元小说并非“去政治”而是“介入政治”。

陈俊松编著的《当代美国编史性元小说中的政治介入》共分六章，从新历史主义的角度出发，对三部美国文坛上重写历史的后现代小说，同时也是“编史性元小说”的典型代表作品进行了深刻的解读，探讨了文学与历史和政治之间的互文性关系；也对后现代主义作品的一般定义提出了修正。