《那儿》与当代中国的“底层文学”

Na'er and “Subaltern Literature” in Contemporary China

作为21世纪"底层文学"的开山之作,《那儿》通过第一人称叙述者看似玩世不恭的口吻和主人公悲剧命运之间的内在关联,呈示出21世纪中国"底层文学"的历史感。"底层"这一措辞的变化往往将中国的革命话语、社会主义文化与西方的后殖民理论混淆起来。这一混淆不仅遮蔽了不同社会的社会、文化和政治条件及其实践,同时也带来了基本的和重要的革命话语和观念的边缘化。

Na＇er is the first representative work of China＇s 21st-century ＂diceng wenxue＂ or subaltern literature. The novel uses starts with a discussion of Na＇er by first foregrounding the ways in which the story portrays the protagonist Zhu Weiguo and nar- rates his tragic tale via its seemingly cynical first-person narrator. It explores the extent to which, via the disjuncture between the narrator＇s ironic tone and Zhu Weiguo＇s failed resistance, points out the historical sense of Chinese subaltern literature in the 21 s~ century. The transformation of ＂dicing＂ raises questions about conflating and confounding China＇s revolutionary discourse and socialist culture with the West-originated postcolonial theory. The confounding obscures the social, cultural and political condi- tions and practices of different societies, bringing about the marginalization of basic and important revolutionary discourse and conception.