城市化与社会文明秩序的重建——中国现当代文学中的"进城"问题

作为现代化运动的一项重要内容,中国社会的城市化多方面决定着现代生活,同时,也对中国现当代文学产生了深刻的影响.形形色色的"进城"问题构成了中国现当代文学的一个贯穿性主题.本文分三部分,分别从长期性、曲折性、深刻性、复杂性、现实性、紧迫性着眼,择要论述这一主题在中国现当代文学各阶段、各层面的表现及其现实意义.指出:无论是从政治一经济层面看,还是从伦理一美学层面看,"进城"都为当代中国社会带来了巨大的风险,同时也为中国式市民社会的形成,为新的社会道德、信仰、伦理、美学秩序的建立提供了根本性的机遇.

Subject of Rural Exodus in Contemporary Chinese Literature

With increasing urbanization and its enormous influence on modern life,the various aspects of the subject of rural exodus,i.e.,an increasing number of rural people swarming into the cities,have now been entering literature. The paper first analyses the various manifestations and significance of the subject and goes on to point out the social, ethical,aesthetic meanings of the phenomenon as well as the risk it might produce in the Chinese civil society.