「九七」之後，「香港意識」退潮，一度被「香港意識」遮蔽的香港內部固有的諸如階級、性別等問題又重新出現，殖民和本土、傳統與現代等方面的矛盾糾葛依然是香港文化不可或缺的維度。自後殖民理論觀之，香港小說與殖民主義疏離反抗以至「生死搏鬥」的作品並不多見，有關於「私人的」和「充滿一種力比多動力」的作品，也並未像傑姆遜所說的那樣具有政治維度的「民族寓言」。

Since 1997, as the current of ”Hong Kong Consciousness” declined, gender and class issues reappeared in Hong Kong. Nevertheless, the conflict between the colonization and localization is still a necessary issue of Hong Kong culture. Through the lens of post-colonialism theory, Hong Kong fictions rarely include fierce combats against colonialism. Instead, these, fictions remained largely fixated on the ”individual level,” and sometimes, ”libido-driven.” These works are not ”national allegories” with a political dimension, as Fredric Jameson otherwise predicted they would be.