新时期乡土文学叙事：从个体历史到家族史

新时期中国文学在对农民和乡土的叙事中，显现出从个体历史叙事到家族史叙事演变的趋势，产生了类似于村史或准村史类的文本。这一演变过程可以简单地描述为：从二十世纪八十年代初的个体历史叙事到寻根文学的虚化个体历史叙事，然后到八十年代中期的后寻根小说热衷于乡村的“前”家族历史，再到九十年代初《白鹿原》等小说的家族史叙事，最后演变到九十年代末、二十一世纪初的村史叙事。

Narratives in Chinese rural literature of new age: from the history of individual to that of family

In the narration of people and events in the rural area, the Chinese literature in the new age sees a transition in attention from the history of individual to that of family and has produced literary texts much like the history of village. This transition started in the early 1980s when narration of individual history gave way to that of virtualized individual history in root-seeking literature, followed by deep concern with quasi-history of family of post-root-seeking novels in the middle of 1980s. The early 1990s saw the emergence of family history narrative novels such as Bailuyuan, which evolved into interest in village history in the late 1990s and early 21st century.