论80年代初市井文学的重启与“市井传统”的现代性发现

On the Restoration of Literature of Common Citizens in the Early 1980s and Discovery of Modernity of “Urban Tradition”

80年代初期,文坛出现了一批"市井小说",它们伴随着"寻根文学"的兴起,成为一股不可忽视的文学思潮。不过,与寻根作家纷纷潜入原始荒蛮的边地和乡土中探索民族文化心理不同的是,将叙述焦点集中在城市的他们,却更像是对市井传统的再回首,在古色古香的城市想象中复现了久违的市井空间和市井伦理,因此,这类写作常年被学术界以"缺乏现代性特征"的由头而拒绝在"城市文学"的大门之外。然而,看似复古倾向的背后却掩藏着某种现代性书写的萌芽,这种萌芽的表征与"市井传统"本身的现代性存在着时空与结构上的互文关系,需要重新审视、思考和评估。

In the early 80 s,as the rise of root-seeking literature,urban novels appeared in the literary world and gradually became a non-negligible literary trend of thought. However,unlike those seeking the root of the world through entering the primitive frontier and local culture to explore the cultural psychology of the nation,the writers of urban novels focused their writing on the city,like a repetition of the urban tradition. In the ancient city of fantasy,the long lost town space and civic ethics reappeared.Therefore,this kind of writing has been condemned as"lack of modernity"and alienated from"city literature". Nevertheless,the seemingly backward tendency conceals the germination of some modern writing,and there is a temporal and structural inter-textuality between this budding characterization and the modernity of the "urban tradition"itself,which needs to be reexamined,thought and evaluated.