记忆素与北京城市文化身份——对1980年代京味小说的一种解读

Memories and Beijing's Cultural Identity: An Interpretation Toward Beijing-Style Novels of 1980s

与老舍小说展现老北京广阔的社会历史风貌不同,1980年代京味小说对于北京城市文化身份的型构,是通过极度浓缩简化并重复出现的"记忆素"来实现的。这些由人物、行动、空间与情节组成的"记忆素"具有高度的趋同性。而这些"记忆素"作为一种"传统的发明",并不是要对老北京的历史文化进行多么精致的还原,而是为了应对"文革"结束后和北京城现代化过程中所出现的城市与人的身份危机而作出的一种解答。

Differing from Lao She’s novels which present more various social and historic prospects and custom of the old Beijing, Beijing-style novels in the 1980s configured the cultural identity of Beijing by repeating and over-simplifying memories. These Memories made from figures, figures’ behavior, sites and plots have the high convergence. As an invented tradition, these memories are not the copy of the original history and the culture of the old Beijing delicately on purpose. Instead, they are aimed at responding to the crises of the city’s and people’s identities that arose after the Cultural Revolution and the modernization of Beijing.