重返历史现场中的集体记忆构建——评陈启文长篇报告文学《大河上下》

The Construction of Collective Memory in Returning to the Historical Scene:Comments on Chen Qiwen's Long Report Literature Down the Yellow River

陈启文的长篇报告文学《大河上下》以玛多、刘家峡、三门峡、花园口等对黄河有着特殊意义的点勾勒了黄河的整体图景,并通过实地采访、历史档案资料查阅等方式,整合了千百年来华夏文明中黄河的琐碎片段,立体化地呈现出黄河的历史情态,为黄河立传、写史,构建黄河的集体记忆,在功与过、是与非、天灾与人祸的比较性叙述中,为黄河的命运乃至中华文明的命运发出悲情呐喊。

Chen Qiwen's reportage Down the Yellow River draws the outline of the overall picture of the Yellow River by describing such typical scenic spots of the river as Maduo,Liujiaxia,Sanmenxia and Huayuankou,and integrates the trivial fragments of the thousands-of-year Chinese civilization of the Yellow River through field interviews and archival data access,which three-dimensionally shows the history modal of the Yellow River,and constructs the collective memory of the Yellow River by writing biography and history for it. Through the comparative narration of merits and demerits,right and wrong,natural disasters and man-made calamities,the book makes a sad cry for the fate of the Yellow River,and even the fate of the Chinese civilization.