文化转型与当代历史小说叙事变革

Cultural Transformation and the Narrative Changes of Contemporary Historical Novels

1990年代以来,中国文学的生态环境发生根本转变,以精神剖析、形式探索与话语实验为表征的现代主义美学体系,遭到影像化、娱乐化与日常化的后现代美学体系的挑战,历史小说叙事全方位转型:叙事文体由一元文体转向跨文体;叙事主题由历史理念转向世俗生活;叙事策略由历史思辨转向娱乐历史;叙事技巧由形式探索转向技巧淡化,呈现出去历史化、去理念化、去技巧化与跨文体的变革。

Since 1990 s, the ecological environment of Chinese literature has undergone fundamental changes. The modern aesthetic system characteristic of psychoanalysis, form exploration, and discourse experiment has been challenged by the post-modern aesthetic system of visualization, entertainment focus and daily themes. Historical novels have been experiencing omnidirectional transformation： they have shifted from unitary-style writing to cross-style creation in narration, from historical ideology to mundane life in themes, from historical analysis to history entertainment in narrative approaches, and from form exploration to technique dilution. The overall transformation is manifested by de-historization, de-ideology, de-technique and cross-style creation.