后现代焦虑表达:中日韩都市传说的虚像与实景

The Reality and the Emptiness of Urban Legends in China, Japan and South Korea

作为一种口传文本,都市传说具有鲜明的表演性、稳定性和警示性等特征。中日韩在历史与现实语境中有诸多共性,在现代化过程中也面临着类似的问题,一定程度上来说,中日韩都市传说正是对其共性与所遭遇困境的折射。中日韩都市传说大致可划分为“灾难预警”等六大类型,凸显了深刻的后现代焦虑。都市传说具有逃避与疗治的现实意义,对中日韩都市传说中恐怖叙述之虚像加以剖析,恰揭示出其背后潜隐的后现代焦虑之实景。

As an oral text,urban legends own strong performance,stability and warning.China,Japan and South Korea have many commonalities in the context of history and reality,and face similar problems in the process of modernization.The urban legend of the Three countries is a distorted reflection of their commonness and dilemmas.It can be divided generally into six categories.Generally,it outlines a mysterious and terrifying space and highlights the profound postmodern anxiety.Urban legends have the real sense of escaping and curing the real world.The explanation of supernatural and terrifying images in the Three countries'urban legends is exactly the revelation of the rationalized crisis and the real situation of post-modern anxiety.