论当代乡村小说民俗书写的沉浮

The Fall and Rise of Folklore Writing in Contemporary Rural Novels

由于民俗的性质,前三十年乡村小说不重视民俗书写。小说中的民俗书写存在严重的局限,处于附丽的工具性的位置。新时期以来,大量民俗进入创作领域,民俗文化内涵得到充分展示。民俗书写对主流意识形态、实利主义现代文化、理性文化、汉族中心文化构成了文化挑战,在乡村小说现实主义的深化、浪漫主义的恢复,特别是现代主义的形成方面发挥了强大的审美功能。

Owing to folklore＇ s charateristics, in last three decades rural novels defectively failed to attach importance to folklore writing which was placed in the affiliatioin. Ever since the New Period, a host of folklores have been written in rural novels, meanwhile folklore culture has found full expressions. Folklore writings have posed challenges to political ideology, modem culture, rational culture and the Han-nationality-centered culture. They have also performed a significant aesthetic function in the deepening of realism, restoration of romanticism and construction of modernism.