Borderland 2: International Literature and Culture·A

Author: Wang Fengzhen, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This issue selects three groups of articles from three issues. Some critiques and reflections on higher education. In recent years, with the development of economic globalization, universities have become increasingly corporate, increasingly integrated with multinational corporations, and colluding for profits. Humanities have been pushed to the margins, free educational ideas are threatened, the humanities quality of the nation declines, and social morality turns into consumer consciousness. Despite the outcry of many dedicated individuals, this trend continues to develop. The second part interprets works from the perspective of cultural theory. In the latter half of the 20th century, literary studies have undergone tremendous development and change: from the decline of formalism to the rise of structuralism, then from the decline of structuralism to the prevalence of post-structuralism, and finally to the resurgence of Marxism and the debates of feminism. Various methods of interpreting literary works have emerged, and unprecedentedly large numbers of new literary research works have been published. The third part is a special issue on Du Bois, selected from Boundaries 2. This section of articles provides a new way of interpreting Du Bois—a reevaluation of empirical sociology.