底层叙事的策略与困境

作为底层叙事的两部力作,《那儿》与《好大一对羊》有着相同的表层结构与话语方式:从表层来看,两篇文本都以“拯救”过程作为主线,以彼岸意象作为终结,在解蔽本土现实的同时解构了改革话语.而文本深层的底层仿像,则体现了真实性、普遍性的创作追求与标本化、符号化的叙事手法的内在矛盾.因此,底层叙事依然“在路上”——它的叙事策略与话语困局既体现了知识分子与底层接触的困境,也体现了中国本土现代性的困境.

The Strategy and Plight of Understratum Narration

As two important novels of the understratum narration,There(written by Cao Zhenglu) and So Big a Couple of Sheep(written by Xia Tianmin) have similar narrative structure and the same discourse pattern.In the surface layer,both texts take the "salvation" as their backbone and end with Faramita images,thus accomplishing the deconstruction of the Reform discourse in which the reality of the understratum has always been vailed.On the other hand,the understratum simulacrum strives for authenticity and universality while adopting the method in which the people in subclass are simply looked on as a specimen or a symbol,thus containing inherent conflict in its deep layer.Therefore,the understratum narration is still on the way-it's strategy and plight imply the plight of the chinese contemporary intellectuals when they meet the people in subclass as well as that of the chinese modernity.