大众读者批评与"80后"的文学史价值

近二十年的中国文学发生于新的历史转型期,既回响着五四以来"人的文学"余音,又激荡着新世纪人们新的渴求,老、中、青和少年作家几代间相互冲突与对话,各种宣言、旗帜布满文坛,传统创作与新媒体写作同在,作家、批评家、媒体相互炒作与合谋,同时又彼此抱怨,美女文学、网络作品、少儿写作和影视文学更是令人眩晕,文化怀古与下半身写作并存,单一化的文坛格局被彻底打破。所有这些对文学史写作形成空前挑战。近年来出版的中国现当代文学史著作,均从特定的角度,以不同的篇幅对这一时期的某些文学现象作了卓有成效的表述。然而,仍有许多重要现象尚未引起编纂者的关注,如已进入文学史的某些作家作品在话语表述和文学史定位上尚可进一步斟酌,某些文学现象从命名到文学史意义的界定尚需更深入讨论。直面近二十年的中国文学,我们深切地感到在现代语境中建构起来的文学史模式苍白无力,急需走出传统言说模式,探讨新型的述史方式,即与这一时期文学创作实际情形相符合而又能体现出新世纪眼光的文学史结构。该时期文学有着较之以前完全不同的文学生态环境,各种新的现象、矛盾纠缠在一起,各类作品拥挤于不同的媒介,传统的传播空间、阅读秩序被打破,意义在质疑中碎片式生成,这就需要文学史著述者站在历史高度上甄别优劣,遴选出能真正体现这一时期文学成就的作家作品,以及具有开启、引领意义的作品。这其中应尽可能不受当事人观点的影响,不为其五花八门的旗号、宣言所左右,尽可能地拉开审视距离,作出独特的审美判断与意义定位。正是基于这种认识,本组文章从各自角度对近二十年一些中国重要文学现象的入史问题进行了反思,以期引起同人的关注。

How to Write Chinese Literary History of the Past 20 Years (special topic for discussion)

Chairman's words:The past 20 years witnesses the transfer of history full of the voices of"human literature"since the May 4 Movement in 1919 and new aspirations,conflicts and dialogues between old,middle-aged and young writers,various declarations and banners,traditional and network writing,mutual boasting between writers,commentators and media and in the meantime mutual complaint,literature of beautiful women,cultural nostalgia,naked literature and so on,which bring great challenges regarding how to write them in the literary history.Some writers and works having been selected into the literary history and some other things still need to be discussed further and deeply.Now the mode of literary history is not enough and should walk out of traditional mode of statement.Because this period is complicated with so many different contexts,new phenomena,contradictions,reading order and others,writers of literary history should have a unique view and select those writers worth being into literary history.This group of papers gives a survey of Chinese literary phenomena in the past 20 years.