乡土文学传统及其当代变迁

Local Literary Tradition and Its Contemporary Change

传统的静态的乡村正在被城乡互动所代替,而乡村文化也在强大的"现代"面前悄然崩解,这种陌生的乡土经验,对新世纪乡土文学的书写产生了巨大影响。中国新文学在乡土叙事上的两大传统——乡土写实传统和乡土浪漫传统,在新世纪的乡土文学中仍有继承者,但却发生了巨大变化,表现在:作家的价值立场由明确到含混,叙事对象由单一到多样,叙事艺术出现多元探索,审美特征变得复杂而混沌。但社会转型带给文学的这种对应性新变,并非是对传统的彻底背叛,而是在传统影响下的一种特殊的转型。它是与传统的"对话",也是对传统的"创化"。

The traditional static village is being replaced by the interaction between urban and rural areas, whereas the rural culture has quietly disintegrated before the powerful ＂modern＂ trend. As such, this strange rural experience has exerted a great impact on the writing of local literature in the new century. While there arc still in the local literature of the new century inheritors of two traditions in the local narrative of new Chinese literature--local realism and local romanticism, drastic changes have arisen, as is evident in the change of writers＇ value stand-point from its explicitness to its vagueness, the change from singularity to diversity in its objects of narration, in the multiple exploration of the narrative technique, and in the complexity and chaos of aesthetic features. Nevertheless, the corresponding new change in literature initiated by the social transition is a special transformation under the impact of tradition rather than a thorough betrayal of tradition, for it is both a ＂dialogue＂ with and a ＂renovation＂ of tradition.