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现代民族国家是一个“想象共同体”1,而文学是想象和建构现代民族国家的重要形式之一。从现代性的角度来看,自晚清特别是五四时期以来,中国文学一直都处在现代性诉求之中。不过,这种现代性的诉求首先是以其现代民族国家的想象与建构来展开历史实践的,“民族国家的大量想象开始出现于晚清,尤其是小说在现代民族国家这种‘想象的共同体’的构造中发挥了极为重要的作用”2。王德威在《想象中国的方法》一书的序言中把20世纪的中国称为“小
The modern nation-state is an ”imaginary community“ 1, and literature is one of the important forms of imagining and constructing the modern nation-state. From the point of view of modernity, since the late Qing dynasty, especially the May 4th period, Chinese literature has always been in the pursuit of modernity. However, this appeal to modernity begins with the historical imagination and construction of its modern nation states. ”The great imagination of the nation states began to appear in the late Qing dynasty, especially in the imagined Community “played a very important role in the construction ” 2. Wang Dewei described the 20th century China as “small” in the preface to the book Imagining China’s Method