20世纪80年代以来,各类地方文学史层出不穷,迄今已超过八十种。作为区域文学史,其意义应该不限于对国家宏观文学史的细节放大及建构过程,还应体现出自身的发展特色,进一步的,其叙述应该能够让读者窥见更多的充沛细节和刁角弯道,显现在国家宏观文学史的本质化、规律化叙述中被忽视乃至牺牲掉的珍珠或异类,来丰富我们对当代文学史并不苍白的想象。2014年长江文艺出版社推出的《湖北文学通史·当代卷》即是这样一部优秀的区域文学史标杆之作。这部《湖北文学通史·当代卷》在体例上以时间为经,文体为纬,辅之以湖北少数民族作家创作和海外鄂籍作家创作 Since the 1980s, various local literary histories have emerged one after another, so far more than 80 species have existed. As a history of regional literature, its significance should not be limited to the process of magnifying and constructing the details of the history of the country’s macro-literature, but should also reflect its own development characteristics. Further, its narration should allow readers to glimpse more abundant details and diagonal corners Road, appeared in the country’s macro-literary history of the nature of the narrative narrative ignored or even sacrificed pearl or alien, to enrich our contemporary literature history is not pale imagination. In 2014, “Hubei Literature History and Contemporary Volume” launched by Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House is an excellent landmark for history of regional literature. The “General History of Hubei Literature, Contemporary Volume” in the style of time as the style of the latitude, supplemented by the creation of Hubei minority writers and overseas writers of Hubei writers