当代先锋小说的儿童叙事及其美学价值

The Children Narrative and Its Aesthetic Value in the Contemporary Avant-garde Novels

上世纪八九十年代中国先锋文学作家创作了许多儿童题材小说,塑造出众多遭受精神和肉体双重创伤的儿童形象,展现作家对忍受饥饿和孤独、面临丑恶和暴力的童年生活的创伤记忆,为当代文学中的儿童悲剧人物形象增添了新的悲剧内涵。这类儿童题材小说大多使用回顾性的第一人称叙述,运用多重叙事视角,有视角越界现象,叙事的自由完全突破传统叙事视角限制,先锋作家所采用的叙事策略赋予当代小说叙事以新的美学价值。

In the 1980s and 1990s, Chinese avant-garde writers created many novels based on children＇s lives, shaping numerous child images with both mental and physical traumas. These images are the presentation of the writers＂ traumatic memory of their own childhood, in which they endured starva- tion and loneliness, faced ugliness and violence, and these add new connotation to the tragic children figures in the contemporary literature. The children novels usually apply the retrospective first-person narrative and use multiple narrative perspectives, showing the phenomenon of metalepsis, and this ut- terly goes beyond the limitation of traditional narrative perspectives. The narrative strategy of the avant-garde writers gives new aesthetic value to the contemporary fiction narrative.