刍议当代小说的见证叙事——以“文革”题材小说为对象的研究

A Brief Discussion on Witness Narrative Tradition of Contemporary Fiction

见证文学是指为历史作见证的文学,当代作家在"文革"后的30多年里,通过小说对"文革"进行了自觉而持续的书写,这类丰富多姿的"文革"叙事多层面多角度地展现了"文革"历史对于中国社会和个体造成的创伤和破坏,见证了"极端年代"的社会景观和人性景观,这类小说在理论和实践意义上确实起到了见证历史的作用,开创了见证叙事的历史传统。论文分析了"文革"叙事的见证功能、如何见证历史以及这类文学叙事见证历史的意义等问题。

Witness literature refers to a kind of literature that witnesses for history. Contemporary writers wrote about the Cultural Revolution with conscious and sustained efforts through novels during more than three decades after this movement. With writing such a rich variety of novels from a number of levels and angles, the writers tried to show trauma and hurt caused by the Cultural Revolution to our society and individuals. What＇s more, these works witness the social landscape and human landscape of that ＂extreme age＂. Theoretically and practically speaking, they indeed played important roles as witnesses. And they also established a historical tradition of witness narrative. In this paper, we analyzed the witnessing function of ＂Cultural Revolution＂ narrative, how to witness the history, its significance and so on.