新世纪东南亚华文闪小说的话语指向与叙事策略

Discourse Directions and Narrative Strategies:Chinese Flash Fictions of Southeast Asia in the New Era

闪小说是一种比一般微型小说更为精短的小说新样式。分析新世纪东南亚数量不菲的华文闪小说,从创作主旨来说,其话语指向或是描摹世相的变化,或是批判社会的不合理现象,或是剖析情感、伦理,或是阐发人生哲理。基于闪小说"言约义丰"的文本特色,其叙事策略主要体现为四个方面的尝试:强化语言的表现功力,在平常事中见宇宙人生大义;运用生活中的巧合或反常来组织情节,以增强故事的张力;通过虚幻与现实的交织来延伸和丰富叙事时空和情境;通过情感叙事或者意象烘托来深化故事的意味。

Flash fiction, as a new type of fiction, tends to be shorter and more succinct than the ommon mini-fiction. In the new era, numerous Chinese flash fictions have emerged in Southeast Asia. rom the perspective of theme, the discourse directions in these fictions tend to depict the changes of the world, to criticize the irrational world, to probe into emotion and ethic, or to elucidate life philosophy. rofound implication in precise language features flash fictions and the narrative strategies in them can be majorly found in four aspects. The expressiveness of words are strengthened to indicate profound life hilosophy in common things. The plots are made up of coincidences and abnormal occasions in life in rder to enhance the power of a story. Reality and virtuality are intertwined to produce extended time nd space and enriched details. Emotional narration and contrastive images are employed to make the tory profound.