历史图景、生态图志与文化自觉——试评《中国西部新文学史》

Historical Picture,Ecological Map and Cultural Consciousness——On The New Literature History of Western China

《中国西部新文学史》是迄今为止最新、最翔实、最细致的西部文学史。该书全面系统地钩沉了1900至2017百余年间中国西部文学发展的线索和演变过程,是《中国西部现代文学史》的增删版。该书涵盖了西部多民族小说、散文、诗歌、报告文学等文体,和影视文学、戏剧文学、口传文学、通俗文学等文类,考证了期刊、社群、文学制度等丰富的文学活动,展现了生动的文学史图景。以不偏不倚的修史态度,对西部文学史进行了评定,提出了“文化西部”“西部精神”“西部风骨”等美学命题。《中国西部新文学史》梳理了西部生态主义文学发展史,在反省人类中心主义恶弊的同时,对人与自然的关系进行了伦理思考与道德关切,提出了生态主义批评,体现了丰富的生态文学图志。《中国西部新文学史》遵循多元化主体架构,在多元文明差序格局中,从众多个体文本中分析归纳出西部文学群体新的美学风貌,体现了著者们深刻的文化自觉。这一切对于中国当代文学的发展具有深刻的启示意义。

The New Literature History of Western China is the latest,most detailed and history of western literature so far.The book comprehensively and systematically covers the clues and evolution process of the development of literature in western China over a hundred years from 1900 to 2017.It is an addition and deletion edition of Modern Literature History in Western China.The book covers novels,prose,poetry,reportage,film and television literature,drama literature,oral literature,popular literature and other literary genres of the western multi-ethnic groups,textual research on periodicals,communities,literary systems and other rich literary activities,showing a vivid picture of literary history.This paper evaluates the history of western literature with an impartial attitude,and puts forward such aesthetic propositions as“cultural west”,“western spirit”and“western character”.The History of New Literature in Western China combs the history of the development of ecological literature in western China.While reflecting on the evils of anthropocentrism,it gives ethical consideration and moral concern to the relationship between man and nature,puts forward ecological criticism,and embodies the rich plans of ecological literature.The History of New Literature in Western China follows the structure of pluralistic subjects,analyzes and summarizes the new aesthetic features of western literature groups from many individual texts in the pattern of pluralistic civilization difference,and reflects the authors’profound cultural consciousness,which have profound enlightenment significance for the development of Chinese contemporary literature.