自我之舞——20世纪青春叙事的一种解读

Dancing of the Self:An Interpretation of the 20th Century Youth Narrative

作为小说叙事的一种,青春叙事有着悠久的传统,20世纪青春叙事更因其独特的风格和别致的形态而受到研究者的重视。青春叙事不仅关乎叙事题材,还是一种价值载体和生命态度。20世纪青春叙事的独特之处在于其对感觉文化和身体元素的偏爱。在叙事策略上,20世纪青春叙事常运用固定式内聚焦模式、第一人称叙事以及独白话语,但在细节上又表现出对这些策略的偏移,如叙述视角的伪固定性,人称机制的虚无化以及价值立场的真空。溯其根源,在于作为叙述主体的"自我"的文化虚无主义本质与传统的青春叙事相比,体现出鲜明的"拒绝成长"的时代特征和文化色彩。这是20世纪特有的声音,却在青春期这一特殊的人生阶段中得到强有力的张扬。在这个意义上,20世纪青春叙事不仅有着类别叙事的特征,还体现了选择与虚无、反抗与绝望的时代之声。

As a form of narrative fiction, youth narrative has a long tradition. With its unique style and morphology, the 20th Century youth narrative has been given great attention. The 20th Century youth narrative has relations with narrative themes as well as the life attitude. The researchers have paid great attention to the 20th Century youth narrative just because of its unique style and morphology. The 20th Century youth narrative is special in its preference to feeling and the physical. Fixed internal highlights, first person narrative and monologue discourse are its most important narrative strategies, but departing from these strategies in details, for example, the pseudo-fixed of its narrative perspective, the nihilistic of description author, and the vacuum of value position. It is because of the nihilism of the ＂self＂ as the main narrative. Compared with the past youth narrative, the 20th Century youth narrative shows the sharp characteristics of the time as a ＂refusing growth＂, and the cultural identity. This is particularly the voice of the 20th Century captured by the writers. In this sense, the 20th Century youth narrative shows its own type of feature, and also the themes of the time, such as the choice and nihilism, the resistance and despair.