历史的另一种书写——评刘玉的《烽火青山》和《抗战老兵口述历史》

Another Perspective for the History: A Review of Beacon of Qingshan and Oral History of Veterans of Anti-Japanese War

刘玉的《烽火青山》和《抗战老兵口述历史》从民间视角来呈现历史图景,这种民间叙事在展示普通大众心目中历史的同时,完成了对历史多样性的表达与多元化的解读,补充了历史资料。这两部口述历史作品对抗日战争时期普通官兵的关注,对战争中人的生与死、对人的生命的思考彰显出历史的人文关怀。抗战老兵们充满细节和情感的个体记忆,为我们提供了前所未有的历史场景与历史影像,这是一种鲜活的、富有生命体温的历史。与理性的、宏大的抗战历史叙事相比,亲历者感性的口述历史更能使我们感同身受,促使我们牢记国耻,奋发图强。

Liu Yu’s Beacon of Qingshan and Oral History of Veterans of Anti-Japanese War present the historical events from a folk perspective,which has accomplished the depiction of historical diversity and diversified interpretation while displaying the history in the eyes of the general public,thus supplementing the relevant historical documents.In these two oral historical works,great historical humanistic care has been manifested respectively in the recognition of the individual life experience of ordinary officers and soldiers in the anti-Japanese war as well as the reflection on the life and death of people in the war.The individual memories of the war veterans,accompanied with their vivid description and emotion,provide us with unprecedented historical scenes and events,which is a fresh and life-fulfilling history.Compared with the rational and grand historical narrative,the perceptual oral narration of the individuals concerned can make us feel the same and urge us to strive for the country’s prosperity.