新民的塑形与作为修辞的父子冲突叙事

The Shaping of Newly-cultivated People and the Narrative of the Conflicts between Fathers and Sons as Rhetoric

作为现代中国文学现代性书写的一个显著标志,新民的塑形通过作为修辞的父子冲突叙事,先后经历了召唤新青年、想像革命者、再造新农民的话语转换与历史变迁。由于"新民"概念命题深受晚清以降不断革命的时代语境的影响规约,现代中国文学对于新民的意识形态表达,一方面明显表现出五四知识精英与左翼政治精英文化心理与艺术旨趣的巨大差异,另一方面也有力地坐实了左翼小说革命叙事模式的客观存在与后世影响。这种将父子冲突叙事当作思想或政治启蒙话语的表现形式,从而参与中国现代化历史进程中对于现代民族国家和现代个人主体的双重想像,深刻反映了现代中国文学重内容轻形式、重教化轻审美的典型特征与叙事困境。

As an obvious mark of modern writing in modern Chinese literature, the shaping ot newly- cultivated people has experienced arousing new youth, imaging revolutionist, rebuilding new farmers sequentially by narrating the conflicts between fathers and sons as rhetoric. Since the concept of NEW PEOPLE has been influenced greatly by changing context of times from late Qing Dynasty, modern Chinese literature, on one hand, obviously shows the huge differences in culture psychology and artistic- purport between The May-4th intellectual elite and Left-wing political elite; on the other hand, it demonstrates the outwardness and profound impact of the Left-wing revolutionary novel narrative mode to express new people＇s ideology. This kind of expression uses the narrative of the conflicts between fathers and sons, as thought or political enlightenment, to take part in the image of modern nation-state and modern individual subjectivity during the process of modernization construction of China. Also, it reflects deeply the typical characteristic and the plight of narrative in modern Chinese literature, which pays attention to content and education but neglects form and artistic appreciation.