Literature of Small Nationalities: Rewriting History, Boundary and Transgression

Abstract

Abstract: The encounters of tradition and modernity, the local and the global make rewriting history a prominent narrative syndrome of literature of small nationalities. It is rewriting history’s basic appeal to summon collective memory and subsequently to reinforce an awareness of boundary and reproduction of identity with it. History in this sense is not a grand history written to be verified, but a narrative and hermeneutic tradition, a past constructed and molded by texts. Because of the absence of self-other spatial dimension, the single temporal dimension of tradition-modernity makes rewriting history penetrate the boundary of literature and ethics. Rewriting history can only exit from existing predicament by adopting "fluid tradition/history" as the principle of narration and inter-ethnic communication, and by dispensing with the binary mindset.

Key words: small nationalities, rewriting history, fluid tradition/history

Li Changzhong. Literature of Small Nationalities: Rewriting History, Boundary and Transgression[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2017, 37(2): 48-57.

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(1)通常而论,“小民族”是指我国28个人口在30万以下的特少民族。由于目前学界对上述民族尚未予以相对固定的概念,“特少民族”“人口较少民族”“少小民族”“小民族”等皆可特指上述民族。
(2)笔者在“重述历史现象论——以当代人口较少民族文学书写为例”(《民族文学研究》2013年3期)、“重述历史与文化民族主义——当代少数民族文学重述历史的深层机理探析”(《中央民族大学学报》2014年1期),“在历史记忆中重构传统——当代中国人口较少民族文学论”(《民族文学研究》2015年6期)以及专著《当代人口较少民族文学的审美观照》(北京:社会科学文献出版社,2015年)中,对作为当代少数民族文学最为凸显的叙事症候——“重述历史”现象问题曾做过较为详细论述。
(3)白鲁恂:“政治发展的诸方面”,见复旦大学历史学系、复旦大学中外现代化进程研究中心编:《近代中国的国家形象与国家认同》(上海:上海古籍出版社,2003年)。