“文学中心”的转移与当代文学“新方向”的确立

何为文学的“中心”?一定时期文学的“中心”又藉何得以形成?文章通过细致的梳理,指出在新文学的第一、二个十年,北京、上海曾作为文学的“中心”,在现代文学史上享有崇高的地位。同时,文章更把眼光投向1940年代,考察从1938年左右开始,由于大批作家奔赴延安,使文学的“中心”在建国前后发生了明显的西移,并以此为“契机”,在延安解放区“新”的文艺政策的指引下,直接规定了之后中国当代文学的走向。文章以“史”为证,力求客观、冷静,对20世纪中国文学在特定时期的走向,提出自己的看法。

The Shift of "the Literary Center" and the Establishment of the "New Orientation" in Contemporary Literature

What is the center of literature? How does the center of a specific period come into being? This paper, by means of detailed analysis, points out that in the first and the second decades of the new literature, both Beijing and Shanghai were considered as the center of literature, and occupied the most outstanding position in contemporary literary history. Then the paper shifts to the 1940s, or more specifically, the time beginning from 1938, when the large numbers of writers emigrated to Yan'an city, which led to the obvious movement of the literary center to the west around the establishment of People's Republic of China. With this turning point and under the guidance of the new literature and art policy in Yan'an liberated area, the trend of Chinese contemporary literature got to be set. This paper also puts forward the personal opinion of the author as to the trend of Chinese literature in specific period, based on the history and objective attitude.