边缘的抗战:北中国乡间的生与死——解读萧红《旷野的呼喊》

Life and Death in the Countryside of Northeast China: An Interpretation of The Cry of the Wilderness by Xiao Hong as Peripheral Anti-Japanese Behavior

萧红在《旷野的呼喊》中关注到了抗战时期流行的宏达叙述话语遮蔽下的东北乡间农民生存现状。在这片生死场上,两代农民在纠葛的历史道义与个人欲求之间做出了不同的选择。萧红作品呈现了边缘地域中,底层年青一代农民的抗战行为,也深刻地表现了他们因践行民族责任走向死亡时带给父辈心灵的伤痛。在这种叙述模式中,能够体会到走向生命末期的萧红与父亲乃至世界和解的信号。

In the novel The Cry of the Wilderness, the writer Xiao Hong keeps an eye on the living status of the farmers who live in the countryside of northeast China, which is ignored by most other writers during the Anti-Japanese War pe- riod. In this region, two generations of farmers have made different decisions between responsibility to the nation and personal desires for themselves. The young generation＇s life-costing Anti-Japanese behaviors as well as the great agony thus brought to the old generation are well presented in The Cry of the Wilderness. Amid the narrative mode, the recon- ciliation between Xiao Hong and her father could be recognized, and even the reconciliation between the writer and the world is signaled, by the end of her life.