本书从形象构建的角度还原20世纪30年代中国文人如何接受美国文学，阐释其内在逻辑和历史文化意义，不仅揭示了中国文人认知、选择美国文学的基本状况和美国文学形象在中国的多元呈现形态，而且分析了美国文学形象构建、美国形象构建与中国“自我”形象构建之间的复杂互动关系。
This book restores how Chinese literati accepted American literature in the 30s of the 20th century from the perspective of image construction, explains its internal logic and historical and cultural significance, not only reveals the basic situation of Chinese literati's cognition and choice of American literature and the multiple presentation forms of American literary images in China, but also analyzes the complex interactive relationship between American literary image construction, American image construction and Chinese "self" image construction.
