试论后现代主义文论思潮在当代中国的积极影响

Western Post-modernist Literary Theories and Their Positive Impact in China

西方后现代主义文论思潮进入中国二十多年以来,对中国当代文论产生了不可低估的影响,这种影响有积极的,也有消极的。其积极影响集中体现在它在被有批判地接受的各个阶段都实际上参与了当代中国文论的创新建构,并取得了若干重要的实绩。主要表现为五个方面:(1)批判性、反思性的启迪;(2)助推中国当代文论走向多元化;(3)对形而上学思维方式的有力冲击;(4)后现代"文学终结论"引发的争论;(5)后现代生态批评对中国文论的建设性影响。这种积极影响之所以能够发生,不仅仅由于西方后现代主义文论中确有可供我们借鉴的合理因素,而且更决定于作为接受者的中国文艺理论工作者能够以敏锐的眼光、宽广的胸怀、本土化的态度,紧密结合中国语境和中国问题,对它进行批判性的审视、改造和吸收,使之融入中国文艺学的创新建构过程之中。

The western post-modernist literary theories have exerted an inestimable impact on contempora-ry Chinese literary theories since they were first introduced to China over two decades ago .This impact has both positive and negative sides .While some scholars tend to devalue or simply negate the importance of post -mod-ernist theories, this article aims to focus on their positive impact in China and seeks to demonstrate that these theories have actively contributed to the innovative construction of contemporary Chinese literary theories in the whole course of their critical reception in China .This positive influence is to be demonstrated from five as-pects, supported by abundant of empirical materials .Firstly, they have introduced a critical and reflective per-spective.Secondly, they have helped to diversify contemporary Chinese literary theories .Thirdly, they have powerfully challenged the metaphysical way of thinking .Fourthly, they have generated a sense of crisis of liter-ature in the postmodern world and triggered the debate on “the end of literature”.Fifthly, the post-modernist ecological criticism has positively contributed to Chinese literary theories .Doubtless, western post-modernist literary theories have something that we can borrow and use for our own purpose , but more importantly this posi-tive impact is due to the fact that Chinese scholars of literary and art theories , with their keen insight and open-mindedness, have critically reviewed, assimilated and creatively reworked these theories to make them more relevant to the Chinese context and our own problems and more flexibly adaptable for their own creative con -struction of Chinese literary and art theories .