乡土文学散论

地域色彩是乡土文学的本质特征,"土地"在乡土文学中既是故事展开的现实的物质背景,更是民族历史文化的象征。乡土作家必须立足乡土又超越乡土,才能开掘出作为人类生活一个重要组成部分的乡土生活的深刻而普遍的意义。新时期的作家应以开放的姿态,从文学观念、表现内容、表现手法等诸方面广泛学习借鉴,坚持民间立场,有深度地揭示乡土中国的"乡土"、"乡民"在现代化进程中艰难曲折的嬗变,写出无愧于时代的优秀作品。

An Essay on the Rural Literatue

Area coloring is the essential trait of the rural literature:"Earth" is not only realistic material background of the story-going,but also the symbol of our national historic culture.Rural literature writers must stand on it and surpass it,then they can discover deep and universal points of the rural life which has been an important part of human life.In this new historic era,a rural writer must be open to learn from many aspects,such as literature concepts,performing contents and performing methods,to change and renew,to persist in folk stands,to get deep into life,to expose difficult changes during the modernization process of the "rural areas" and "rural people"in rural China with depth,to work out excellent novels which are worthy of the times.