城市想象与文学记忆——广东城市文学发展综论

City Imagination and Literature Memory:On the Development of Guangdong City Literature

广东商品经济和对外贸易素来发达,繁盛的贸易往来推进了广东的城市化发展,有关广东城市的文学表述历史久远,但不同时期的城市想象因社会要求与城市发展差异呈现出不一样的图景。广东古代城市在历代作家笔下多呈现出商业性特征,近现代城市想象因民族国家叙述而流露出革命性和启蒙性倾向,可商业性与日常性话语在边缘罅隙处仍有一定的生存空间。新时期以来的广东城市迅猛发展,城市书写成为广东文学创作的主潮,在新启蒙思潮、大众文化与消费文化思潮的影响下,广东城市想象表现出现代与后现代混杂共处的多样面孔。

Guangdong＇s commodity economy and foreign trade have always been developed,which promoted the development of urbanization. The urban expression of Guangdong literature has a long history,but the city imagination at different historical stages presents a different picture. The ancient city of Guangdong showed commercial characteristic in the works of the writers in the past dynasties. The modern city imagination showed revolutionary and enlightening tendency because of the narration of the nation-state,at the same time,commercial and daily discourse still had certain living space. Because of the rapid development of Guangdong cities since the foundation of the new China,the urban writing has become the main trend of Guangdong literature. Under the influence of the new enlightenment,popular culture and consumer culture,the city imagination of Guangdong shows the mixed characteristics of modernity and post-modernity.