“说”出集体性--口述性(orality)与20世纪40年代的解放区小说

Uttering Collectivity:Orality and Chinese Communist Narratives in the 1940s

20世纪40年代解放区小说中,经常出现一种作为情节生产者的"非角色化"叙述者,和作为假想主体的"情境外"叙述接受者,二者之间的遥相呼应完成了叙事传达和接受的想象交流。这种叙述者和叙述接受者之间口述性的共时交流成功地使这类作品易于为农村普通读者接受。口述性的仪式化结构更为解放区作家虚拟了一种"集体性"景象,并为他们提供了使之合法化的叙述工具。

This study explores the simulated orality as an important narratological characteristic of Chi nese Communist narratives of the 1940s in which one often finds a non-characterized ducer of the narrative, accompanied by exposed narratee who becomes the imaginary narrator as the pro subject to whom the narration is directed. Focusing on the ways in which some Communist stories of the 1940s are narrated on micro-levels, this study discusses how the subtleties of linguistic utterances bear traces of the social structures and symbolic domination they express and help to reproduce and how the simulated encounter between narrator and narratee facilitates such Communist writers as Zhao Shuli to construct a vision of collectivity.