地域文化与西部小说

文学创作与地域文化有着血肉般的联系。在20世纪中国文学史上,那些取得重大成就且独具魅力的小说脉流无疑是各个时期的地域文化小说,它构成了现代中国文学的重要特征和属性。西部作家从理论到创作都彰显和实践着西部地域特有的人文景观及自然景观,充分体现着自己独立的话语方式和精神系统。西部小说的地域文化特征对当代中国文学有着重要的示范意义。

Regional Culture and Western Fiction

Literary writing is closely associated with regional culture. A view of the 20th Chinese history of literature shows that novels of regional culture in different phases rank obviously among the most accomplished and most original. For example, western writers constantly presented and practiced distinct humanistic and natural worlds in western China both in theory and in practice, representing their individual discourse pattern and spiritual system. Therefore, the properties of regional culture in western novels are of modeling significance to contemporary Chinese literature as a whole.