论刘醒龙小说《天行者》的仪式书写

On the Ceremony Narration in LIU Xinglong's Tian Xing Zhe

仪式具有象征意义和社会功能。仪式书写作为刘醒龙小说《天行者》里的一种重要叙事手段和叙事策略,是文本意义赋予和内涵阐发的途径。小说《天行者》通过相关仪式的书写,在对民办教师的主体地位、人生价值、现实存在、历史境遇以及尴尬身份的探寻中,揭示了作为乡村知识分子的民办教师的边缘身份和失语存在,写出了民办教师生存的沉重与悲凉,表达了作家深切的人文关怀。仪式书写是对社会身份认同的探求,是对民办教师期盼归趋官方体制的表达,成为表达诉求的一种途径。

Ceremony has symbolic significance and social function.As one of the important narrative techniques and narrative strategies in LIU Xinglong’s novel Tian Xing Zhe,the ceremony narration was the way of significance endowment and connotation analysis.By the narration on related ceremonies,and the exploration of the principal position,the value of life,the reality existence,historical circumstances,embarrassing identity of community-supported teachers,the novel Tian Xing Zhe revealed the marginalized identity and silent existence of community-supported teachers as rural intellectuals,described their heavy and sad life,and expressed the writer’s deep humanistic concern on them.As an exploration of social identification,the ceremony narration expressed the community-supported teachers’expectation of being into the official system and becoming public teachers.