女性视阈中的革命历史——论《英雄无语》兼及革命历史题材写作

Revolutionary history at female visual threshold

对于中国革命历史,当代文学曾出现过两种在历史观、审美观都相距甚远的历史叙述。一种是十七年时期的革命历史小说,一种是新时期的新历史小说,前者是一种将革命历史神化、英雄化的叙述,后者则是将革命历史世俗化、凡人化的叙述。其实,在这两种“极端化”的历史叙事中,一直潜隐着一种试图将两者加以调和,或者说试图超越的历史叙事,那就是出自部分女作家之手的作品,项小米的《英雄无语》就是其中的代表作,它展示了女性对历史的检讨和战争的反省。

As far as Chinese revolutionary history is concerned, there appeared two historical narrations which are quite different from each other in view of history and view of aesthetics as well. One is 17-year-period revolutionary historical novel, the other is new-period new historical novel. The former is a narration which deifies and heroizes revolutionary history, the latter is to secularize and mortalize revolutionary history. But there has long been a historical narration which tries its best to reconcile or transcend the two extremes. Xiang Xiaomi' s work, Silent Heroes, is the representative work of some woman writers works, which reveal women s examination of history and introspection of war.