新世纪文学的三重门

Three Gates into the 21st Century of Chinese Literature

当前中国当代文学研究界广泛热议的"新世纪文学"一词,无论是作为一个文学史断代范畴,还是一个观察和评价文学现象的视域概念,都存在以主观的定义、命名争议来代替和淹没客观据实的分析和概括的偏颇。这使得进入新世纪以来,中国文学在体制形态、传播媒介和社会文化格局等方面经历急遽而深刻的系统结构性嬗变的事实,在很大程度上遭到了遮蔽、忽视和低估,其中最突出的是由文学市场的完善成熟、网络文学空间的高速拓展和文学人口的世代层累这三重条件,所带动产生的一系列全新的文学生态要素和发展动向。

As a fashionable term, the New Century Chinese Literature is interpreted partially, whether it is regarded as a subjective title to a period literary history or to a view of evaluation about literary phenomena. At the same time, the relevance facts are submerged among the denominational disputation of this man-made term. Specially, the consummation of cultural market, the development of literature on the internet, and the synchronic accumulation of different generations of literary population, have already brought along a series of bran-new essentials and pulse of the macrocosm of Chinese literature. These cases tell us the truth that the system of literary undertakings, the communicational medium of literary information, and the social environment of literature have undergone rapid and profound structural transformations.