The Narrative of “Suffering People” as the Historical Testimony

 本文从苦难的社会性和社会根源的分析入手,着重探讨普通农民关于自身经历的讲述如何能够成为历史的问题。农民对"苦难"历史的讲述,构成20世纪下半期中国农村社会生活口述资料的重要内容。"苦难"的社会属性确立了普通人的日常生活与宏观社会历史之间的有机联系,也表明必须从社会结构和权力关系视角揭示"苦难"的深刻根源。将文明落实为普通人的日常生活实践,农民的生活史就与宏观的社会历史过程联系起来,而他们日常琐碎的经历和讲述便具有了非凡的意义,可以成为宏大叙事的有机部分。这就是从普通人的日常生活中构建历史的过程。 

Starting with an analysis of sociality and social rootstock of “ suffering” , the paper discusses how the narrative of common peasants about their lives can be the history . The narrative of suffering from peasants who called themselves “ suffering people” composed importantly oral data about Chinese rural social life in the latter half of 20th century , and became significant academic resources as well as the special field of knowledge production.The sociality of “ suffering” established the organic connection between the ordinary life of common people and the macro social history , and showed the need of revealing the roots of “ suffering” from the perspective of social structure and power relationship.When we consider civilization as everyday-life practice of common people , the life history of peasants can be connected with the process of the macro social history , and their trivial stories, as organic parts of grand narrative , can be provided with extraordinary meanings .That is the process of making history from everyday life of common people.

郭于华

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