社会记忆及其建构一项关于知青集体记忆的研究

Social Memory and Its Construction-A Study of the Collective Memory of the Intellectual Youth Generation

任何个体化的叙述都不可避免地带有“社会文本”的痕迹,知青集体记忆正是通过知青个体化的充满张力的叙事而展开其逻辑的。通过叙事,知青“自我”意义和“群体”意义生成,在此基础上,知青通过对“代”的认同,使得自己与国家历史相联,以确定自我形象并在更宏大的社会结构中进行定位。知青对意义的定位和追寻反映了这一代人持续的和深刻的认同危机。“劫后辉煌”是知青对自己青春创伤的救赎。尽管知青集体记忆存在着复杂的分层,但是,意义已经在叙述和回忆中完成。知青文学作为一种传播广泛的刻写方式,知青聚会作为一种普遍参与的操演方式,它们对知青集体记忆的建构起到了不可忽视的作用。而“上山下乡”历史事件的特点为知青集体记忆的建构提供了空间和可能性。我们希望有关知青社会记忆研究能够在研究实践层面推进社会记忆研究这个领域。

Any individualized narrative is unavoidable of being stamped with the social features. It is through the narrative tension in each individual’s stories that the logic of the collective memory of the Intellectual Youth has evolved. It is through such story telling that the meanings of the “self” and the “social group” have been derived, upon which the Intellectual Youth connect themselves to the nation’s history via the identification with their “generation,” thus able to determine their self-image and position in a grander social structure. The search of meaning by the Intellectual Youth shows their deep, lasing sense of an identity crisis. “The glory after suffering” is the Intellectual Youth’s self-healing of the wounds endured in their youthful years. Although their collective memory consists of complex, multiple layers, its meaning has already been reached in the process of retelling and recalling. The Intellectual Youth Literature as one writing mode for extensive circulation and Intellectual Youth gatherings as one channel for popular practice participation- both have played an essential role in the collective memory construction of the Intellectual Youth; whereas the historical event of “going up to mountainous areas and coming down to rural villages” has provided space and possibility for such collective memory creation. Hopefully, this study of the Intellectual Youth’s collective memory will promote further research practice in the field of social memory.