中国乡土小说:世纪之交的转型

On Transition of Chinese Rustic Novel at the Turn of the Century

在世纪之交的前现代、现代和后现代三种文明相互冲突、缠绕和交融的复杂文化背景下,中国乡土小说直面思想和审美选择的种种挑战,重新整合中国乡村社会现代转型带来的陌生的新"乡土经验",将乡土叙事疆域由传统的乡村日常生活拓展到"农民进城"、"乡土生态"和"乡土历史"等领域,形成乡土现实主义、浪漫主义、现代主义、生态主义和宗教文化"返魅"等重要叙事现象,叙写了中国社会大变革时代历史的与现实的种种矛盾,揭示和批判了混乱无序的社会价值观念失范。乡土小说艺术形态方面的变化,也十分显著。所有这些变化,都显露了中国乡土小说在新世纪向未来发展的新动向。

This thesis analyses comprehensively and systematically on transition of Chinese rustic novel at the turn of the century. In the background that the pre-modern culture, modern culture and postmodern culture conflicted but also blended mutually, Chinese rustic novel faced various challenges of choices on concepts and aesthetics. It reformed the foreign native experience caused by the modern transition of Chinese rural society, and also enlarged the topic area from traditional rural daily life to areas such as farmers going to the city, local ecology, local history, thus has formed the important narrative phenomenon which is a revival of rustic realism, romanticism, modernism, ecologism and religious culture. It described various contradictions of history and reality during the period of revolution of Chinese society, revealed and criticized the disorganization of social values. Besides, changes on art form of rustic novel are also very remarkable. All these changes indicate the new trend to future of Chinese rustic novel at the new century.