20世纪90年代中国大众文艺的后现代特征

大众文艺在中国20世纪90年代以来已经成为当代文化的一个鲜明的特征,它比较充分地体现出了后现代主义的某些特征。主要表现在:向现代性的严肃文学艺术和主流叙事挑战;反省/检讨、质疑/追问"现代性";厌倦那种大胆的历险与尝试、创造新潮的姿态,而回归一种对世俗日常生活的兴趣和温馨、柔美的文化絮语情调;坚持直觉原则,对理性进行质疑和挑战,藐视权威和权力角逐,追求个性张扬或物质利益最大化。

Postmodern Traits in Chinese Popular Literature and Art of the 1990s

Since the 1990s popular literature and art have become a distinctive trait of contemporary culture in China and have fully embodied some postmodernist features, as are evident as follows: a challenge against the serious literature and art with modernity as well as against the essential narrative; the introspection or self-criticism of and the query or inquiry into "modernity" ; the boredom with the posture of bold adventures and attempts and of turning out new trends as well as a renewed interest in secular daily life and a quest for the sentiment of warm and graceful cultural discourse; and an adherence to the principle of instinct with a query into and a challenge to rationality, which is marked by a disregard of authority and power quest as well as by a pursuit of highlighting individualism or maximizing the material profit.