觉醒·寻找·眷念——现代中国文学“个体身份认同”母题的三种样态

A Wakening Seeking Remembering——Three Forms of the Motif of "Individual Identity" In Modern Chinese Literature

现代性身份焦虑使得“个体身份认同”母题成为现代作家的重要创作资源,由此生成了一种往返质疑精神,一方面以反思现代性来保持自我扬弃,另一方面又以“个体身份认同”母题的演变反思文学的个体主体意识。自“五四”以来,现代中国文学“个体身份认同”母题随着外部环境的变化,分裂出觉醒、寻找、眷念三种样态;而具体到作家一生的创作历程,其自我身份建构既可以体现在该母题不同样态的历时更迭或共时媾接,又可以体现为在同一样态中的不断深化。明晰“个体身份认同”这一现代性母题样态的演变途径,将有助于我们解决现代作品的经典化问题,在更大视野中则可为文学史观念建构与解读提供一种新的方法论。

Modern identity anxiety makes the motif of “individual identity”become an important creative resources for modern writers. The reflective spirit generation by this motif is mainly reflected in two aspects.On the one hand, the writer realizes the self-sublation by reflecting modernity. On the other hand, it reflects on the subject consciousness of literature through the evolution of the motif of “individual identity”. Since the May 4th Movement, with the change of external environment, the motif of“individual identity”in modern Chinese literature has been divided into three forms: awakening, seeking, remembering. Specific to the creation process of writers, the construction of identity in literature can be reflected not only in the diachronic change or synchronic change of these four forms, but also in the continuous deepening of the same form. A clear understanding of the evolution of the“individual identity”motif will help us understand the problem of the classicization of modern works, and also provide a new way of constructing and interpreting literary history.