现代性与文学的自我认同——兼论当代中国的“文学—人学”论

Modernity and Self-identity of Literature:A Dialogue with the Theory of "Literature-Humanism" in Contemporary China

文学是创作主体实现自我认同的重要方式和载体。在现代性语境中,自我认同被赋予了浓厚的现代色彩,成为包括文学家在内的现代个体必然面对和思考的问题。因长期受反映论、工具论的影响,中国当代文学和文论过分强调文学认识世界、改造世界的"掌握"功能,而对主体在艺术实践中实现自己的个性和品格,在对象中确证自我,实现对自身的"肯定"的一面重视不够。作为自我认同的文学是对"文学是人学"这一经典命题在新的时代文化视镜中的新的发展。

Self-identity is an important way and carrier for a literary creator to realize himself. Self-identity is endowed with strong modem color, and it becomes a problem that modem individuals must face and consider in the context of modernity. Contemporary Chinese literature and literary theory overemphasize the role of literature as a tool used for understanding the world and transforming the world affected by theories of reflection and organon for a long time. At the same time, it fails to pay enough attention to the self affirmation function, which means the realization of one＇s own personality and character in artistic practice and the self confirmation in the object. The viewpoint of literature as an important way of self-identity is a development of the theory that ＂literature is the study of man＂, which is a classical proposition in the new cultural era.