社会转型期西部文学的路径选择

The Paths of Chinese Western Literature in Social Transition

随着中国社会的急剧转型,文学的整体生态环境发生了深刻的变化,西部文学也经历了从上个世纪80年代"新边塞诗"的自我命名、90年代的集体失语到进入新世纪的"借东风"几个不同的发展阶段,路径选择上有主动也有被动,有自我的追求也有他者的介入。由于东西部经济发展的不平衡,在客观上对二者之间文学关系的构成也产生了深远的影响,西部更多的时候是以"受众"出现,即便是主动去"借东风",也可见出潜在的力有不逮的无奈。但西部文学的价值在当下的文学语境里已日益凸显,作为边缘的存在,它的文学精神及其所蕴涵的文化个性,在一定程度上反衬出了这个趋同时代的文学病象。

With the sharp social transition in China, Chinese western literature has undergone three different stages of development since the 1980s. The developmental paths are either active or passive, containing either self pursuit or intervention from others. The imbalance in economic development between the eastern part and the western part has profound influence on their roles in literature; that is, the western lit- erature serves as the audience more than often. But Chinese western literature is of increasingly great value in the current literary context. Being marginal, its literary spirit and cultural personality to some extent con- trast with literary symptoms in the time of convergence.