论底层群体作为读者阅读接受“缺席”的现象

(四川师范大学 文学院,四川 成都 610068)

底层文学; 底层读者; 接受美学

On the Phenomenon of Lacking Reading and Reception among the Subaltern Groups as Readers
QIU Ting

(School of Liberal Arts, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China)

bottom literature; bottom readers; reception aesthetics

DOI: 10.15986/j.1008-7192.2021.01.011

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一直以来,底层文学缺乏对底层群体作为读者身份的关注与讨论,存在着底层群体作为读者阅读接受“缺席”的现象。这一现象产生的主要原因与底层群体的经济水平低下、文化阅读能力缺失以及作为读者期待视域的失落有关,分别从底层群体的物质条件、受教育程度和阅读心理三个方面分析“缺席”的原因所在。具体而言,经济水平低下意味着底层群体没有文化购买能力,文化阅读能力缺失意味着他们连作为读者最基本的要素都不具备,读者期待视域的失落意味着少数具有前两者能力的底层群体也无法从被刻意苦难化的底层文学作品中获得心理共鸣感。而针对底层群体作为读者阅读接受“缺席”这一现象的解决则依赖于文学创作和底层自身两个层面,文学创作层面即采取底层文学“底层化”的策略,以历史为据创作出真正被底层群体所接受所喜闻乐见的底层文学作品; 底层自身层面即采取底层群体“消失”的策略,从底层这个概念本身出发帮助底层群体脱离底层生活,以此“消灭”底层群体,当社会不再有苦难的底层群体时,底层文学也就完成了它面世的意义。
All along, the bottom literature has been paying little attention to the discussion of the subaltern groups as readers, hence the phenomenon of lacking reading and reception among them. Although the subaltern groups are chiefly the creation object by which the bottom literature exists, they have no ability to express themselves,nor to read the relative literary works. Studying the lack of reading and reception from the aspects such as the material condition, the education level and the reading psychology of the subaltern groups, the paper finds that the main causes are the low economic level, and the inability of text reading of these people, and the absence of reader's horizon of expectation. Concretely, the low economic level means that the subaltern groups have no cultural purchasing power, and the lack of text reading ability means that they have none of the most basic elements as readers. Besides, the nonexistence of readers' horizon of expectation means that even if they have the above two abilities, few of them can get psychological resonance from the bottom literature full of deliberate miseries. However, the solution to the lack of reading and reception among the subaltern groups as readers depends on both the literary creation and the subaltern itself. In terms of literary creation, it is necessary to bring down literature to the bottom and create bottom-level literary works that are really receptive and appreciative for the subaltern in accordance with history. As far as the subaltern is concerned, the strategies should be adopted to get rid of the bottom concept to help them break away from bottom life and eliminate the subaltern groups. Only if the subaltern groups no longer suffer in society will the bottom literature complete its significance in publication.