当代美国犹太裔作家菲利普·罗斯享有“美国文坛活神话”之美誉。20世纪80年代国内罗斯研究成果丰赡。2013年以来,罗斯研究呈现新的发展态势:在西方文学传统和文化中考察其叙事艺术和创作风格;在“文化转向”视域下深入宏大历史语境中探寻作品的政治意义;聚焦其独特的身份观,深入挖掘身份问题再现的历史意义与现实内涵^①。近年来中国的罗斯研究成果喜人,但有进一步拓展和挖掘的空间,如对罗斯进行系统性和整体性研究,深入挖掘罗斯作品中的“美国性”,系统耙梳和论述罗斯的批评思想,可以立足中国独特的学术语境,从空间理论与伦理环境理论等角度推陈出新,进一步丰富罗斯在中国的研究。

Contemporary Jewish American writer Philip Roth is known as the “living myth of American literature”. Since the 1980s, China’s academic circles have made fruitful achievements in Roth research. Since 2013, research on Roth in China has shown a new trend of development, such as placing his works within Western literary traditions and culture to examine his narrative art and creative style; exploring the political significance of Roth’s works in the grand historical context from the perspective of “cultural turn”; focusing on the Jewish nature of Roth’s works and his unique perspective on identity to delve deeply into the historical significance and practical connotations of the reproduction of identity issues. The research achievements in China from 2013 to 2022 have been impressive, but there is still room for further expansion and exploration, such as a systematic and holistic research on Roth, the exploration of “Americanism” in his works, a systematic review and discourse on his critical thinking, and based on China’s unique academic context, from the perspectives of spatial theory and ethical environment theory, further enriching Roth’s research in China.