文化视域中的城市文学写作

Urban Literature in Cultural Horizon

20世纪80年代以来的城市文学写作中有一个若隐若现且一以贯之的倾向就是"文化化"。如果说,在80年代文化是作为政治的他者而显示其价值,到了90年代文化则成了市场化时代抵制市场的退守物。文化在城市写作中常常成为某种隐喻或象征,城市景观的独特性并不能真正得到呈现。这一状况在21世纪特别是近几年来的小说写作中有明显的改变,其表征即"去文化化"。"去文化化"表明的是一种反讽的、审慎的和"自我他者化"的倾向,一种跳开或突破简单的二元对立思维模式的努力,其不仅在小说创作中彰显出来,更是理论探讨所亟需面对并要解决的问题。

'Culturalization' has been a hidden but consistent tendency in the urban literature since the 1980 s.If in the 1980 s culture highlighted its value as the other of politics,it became a bulwark against the invasion of market in the market-oriented era of the 1990 s.The uniqueness of cityscape in the urban literature has not been fully presented,because it usually is treated as a metaphor or symbol.However,this situation has remarkably changed,especially in the fictions published in recent years,which show a trend of 'de-culturalization.' This is an ironical,prudential and otherness-of-self tendency,an effort to break away from the thinking pattern of dichotomy,which not only emerges in fiction writing,but also calls for immediate theoretical discussions.