《文化苦旅》与20世纪90年代的文化民族主义

Cultural Perplexity in Agonized Travel and Cultural Nationalism in 1990s

出现在20世纪80、90年代之交的《文化苦旅》,是考察这一时期文化转型的重要文本,对于认识90年代兴起的文化民族主义思潮有重要参照价值。《文化苦旅》借用"西部"意象,表现出的"苦旅"姿态和"自我感伤"趣味,可以看出作者对这一时期文化民族主义思潮的迎合。《文化苦旅》在形式上保持了80年代关注民族命运的精英传统,但在内核里放弃了启蒙和反思的冲动,以"伪精英"的姿态开启了中国消费文学的新范型。

Cultural Perplexity in Agonized Travel appeared at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s and it has typical significance to investigate the cultural transformation of this period. The book was filled with a lot of western China images. The attitude of ＂agonized travel＂ and the taste of ＂self-sentimentalism＂ in the book showed the author＇s catering to cultural nationalism in this period. Although Cultural Perplexity in Agonized Travel superficially kept the tradition of nationalism in 1980s in form,it basically gave up the pursuit of enlightenment and reflection and opened a new paradigm of Chinese consumption literature with pseudo elite posture.