当代中国故乡意象的文学建构——以新时期乡村小说为中心

The literary Construction of the Contemporary Chinese Hometown Image——Taking the New Period Rural Novels As the Research Object

作为当下中国故乡意象的重要构成元素,当代乡村小说以文学的方式,重建了人与乡村、人与自然、人与人、人与自我之间的诗情画意关系,它既是乡村现代性发展的产物,也是乡村现代性困境的表征。文学故乡的建构包含两个向度的内容:一是乡村生产生活的自然环境、器物生物、生存条件等实体性故乡,二是乡村的权力秩序、道德伦理、文化精神等情感性故乡。当代作家正是通过物质诗化与精神复魅的书写策略,建构起坚实厚重、丰富立体、诗情画意的故乡意象,并最终生成强烈的对抗现实、舒缓心灵的艺术功能;它既是创作主体对乡村现代性的一种深刻反思和有益补充,更是对当代中国乡村未来的一种文学设计与艺术想象。

As an important component of the present Chinese hometown image,contemporary rural novels reconstruct the poetic relationship between the people and country,man and nature,man and man,man and self. It is not only the product of the development of the country's modernity,but also the performance of the predicament about it. The construction of literature hometown contains two dimensions: the first is the natural environment of rural production and living environment,objects,living conditions,and the second is the power order,moral ethics,cultural spirit and so on. The contemporary writer is through this writing strategy to construct a solid and thick image of hometown,and ultimately generates strongly against the reality,release the artistic function of people's spirit. It is not only a profound reflection of the creation of the subject to the rural modernity,but also a kind of literature design and artistic imagination of the future of the Chinese rural society.