回不去的故乡——新世纪初农民工小说的“还乡”主题

The Passing Hometown: on Novel of Returning Home Theme of Migrant Workers at the Beginning of the New Century

新世纪以来,农民离开农村进城打工成为一个显著的时代潮流,出现了许多反映这一潮流的小说。在这些作品中,"还乡"是一个重要主题。作家笔下的"还乡"大致有三种类型:衣锦还乡、逃回"乌托邦"和"中性"还乡。作家们希望写出时代大潮下的城乡变动,也希望借助乡村文明疗救现代文明的病症,但美好的"故乡乌托邦"注定是找不到的。

Since the new century, farmers out of rural migrant workers has become a significant trend of the times, there are many novels reflected this trend.In these works,“returning home” is a major theme.Generally there are three types：Homecoming, fled back to the “Utopia” and “neutral” return of the native.Writers want to write the tide of the times under the urban and rural change, also hope that through the rural civilization of modern civilization disease cure, but beautiful “hometown Utopian” is doomed not to be found.