印度當代英語文學誕生于后殖民和全球化這一大背景之中,展現出了獨特的小民族文學姿態。本文通過具體解讀幾部印度當代英語小說,詳細闡明了它們展現出的小民族文學的三個重要特征,表明了小民族文學如何進行小民族政治實踐:通過對語言進行小民族使用,解構作為語言常量的權力關系,促進生成新的身份;通過不斷地解域社會中的克分子組裝,釋放出欲望之流,進行各種生成,不斷地創造出新的生命體驗、生命形式和生命的可能性;通過參與表述的集體組裝創造出新的身份和民族。小民族文學提供了一種不同于經典后殖民研究的視角,或可以用以指前殖民地作家創作出的英語文學作品,因此為閱讀后殖民英語文學作品提供了新的理論工具,為建構以后殖民文學為本體的理論話語提供了資源,并有助于革新后殖民英語文學的創作和批評話語。

Contemporary Indian novels in English came into being in the context of postcoloniality and globalization,thus displaying unique characteristics of minor literature.Through a detailed reading of several contemporary Indian novels in English,this paper elaborates on the three important characteristics of minor literature and shows the ways it conducts minor political practices:through the minor use of language,it deconstructs the power relations constant in language;through continuously deterritorializing the molar assemblages in a society,releasing the inorganic,impersonal desire flow of life,and conducting different kinds of becomings,it continuously creates new life experiences,new forms and possibilities of life;through the engagement in the collective assemblage of enunciation,it creates new identities and peoples.The concept of "minor literature" provides a different perspective from classical post-colonial studies,and can be used to refer to those English literary texts created by writers in ex-colonial countries or plaes.Therefore,it provides a new critical tool for the reading of post-colonial literary texts,as well as resources for the construction of critical discourse which targets exclusively at those literary texts,and contributes to the innovation of the literary creation and critical discourse of the post-colonial English literature.