边疆自觉、少数民族文学与当代中国观

Frontier Consciousness,Ethnic Minority Literature and View of Contemporary China

近现代中国由王朝帝国向民族国家转型过程中,边疆的自觉,边民的发现、想象和书写,构成了统一的多民族中国的观念基础。国际地理和国内空间的再认识与复杂化,意味着中国对于外部与内部、世界与自我的认知变化。在国内外多重因素所导致的主动与被动的迁徙与流动中,地理、政治、社会与价值观念得以重构,形成了中国特色社会主义的主权国家。包容不同类型的文化于国家一体的内部,兼顾共同性与特殊性,促成了新中国多民族共同主体的再造。这个主体再造的过程,决定了少数民族文学作为中国特色国家意志体现与文化表达的当代属性。少数民族文学从属于社会主义文化新体系与格局的建构,成为总体性中华民族审美共同体的组成部分,进而形成了集体主义的美学风格。在经由改革开放以来各种“后学”思潮的洗礼之后,如今需要重申社会主义早期文化实践的遗产,重塑中华民族共同体美学。

In modern China’s transition from dynastic empire to nation-state,the consciousness of frontier,and the discovery,imagination,and writing of frontier people formed the conceptual basis of a unified multiethnic Chinese nation.The rethinking and complexification of international geography and domestic space signified changes in China’s cognition of the external and internal world and self.The active and passive migrations and movements,caused by multiple factors at home and abroad,have led to the reconstruction of geography,politics,society and values,thus forming a socialist sovereign country with Chinese characteristics.Meanwhile,the inclusion of different cultures within the country balanced commonalities and particularities,which facilitated the reconstruction of a multi-ethnic community of P.R.China.This process of subject reconstruction has determined the contemporary attributes of ethnic minority literature as an embodiment of China’s national will and cultural expression.The construction of the subordination of minority literature to the new system and paradigm of socialist culture is a component of the overarching Chinese nation’s aesthetic community,leading to a collective aesthetic style.After various waves of“post-isms”since the reform and opening up,there arises a necessity to reaffirm the legacy of cultural practices during the early socialist period and to reshape the aesthetics of the community for the Chinese nation.