本书对海外华文文学中的区域文学进行专门研究。作者提出"北美新华文文学"的新概念，并在清晰界定这一概念的基础上，以典型文本细读为依据，对该区域文学的发展进程展开考察，梳理出该文学的发展脉络，勾勒出该文学发展的基本轮廓，发掘出其所蕴含的文化内涵和诗学特质，进而揭示这一文学在整体的文化意义上所包蕴的"民族寓言性"。This book specializes in region literature of overseas Chinese literature. The writer proposes the new concept of "new Chinese literature in North America". On the basis of clear definition of the concept, the writer, according to intensive typical text reading, investigates the development process of the region literature, sorts the literature development course, draws the outline of the literature development, and explores the cultural connotation and poetic features, so as to reveal the "national allegory" of the literature in integral cultural sense.