中国当代文学“时期”划分探析

Some Ideas about the "Period" Division of Chinese Contemporary Literature

作为中国当代文学的前沿学科——时期划分法,历来各家学派说法不一,有把"十七年文学"和"文革文学"归入现代文学之说,有只把新世纪文学作为当代文学之说。其实文学的发展和演进是不能断层和切割的,何况在中国这个特殊的环境里,它又是与政治经济密不可分的。依据此,当代文学60年的时期划分应为:建国以来的文学、新时期文学、转型时期文学、新世纪文学。

About period division,as the frontier discipline of Chinese contemporary literature,different schools hold different opinions.Some include the ＂seventeen years＂ and the ＂Cultural Revolution＂ in the period of contemporary literature.Others think that only the literature in the new century can be considered as contemporary literature.As a matter of fact,the development and evolvement of literature could not be broken up or partitioned,let alone in the particular environment of China where it is closely related with politics and economy.On this basis,the 60 years of contemporary literature should be divided into literature beginning from the founding of the People＇s Republic,literature in the new period,literature in the transition period and literature in the new century.