近年来,对于现代中国来自小城的作家,和以小城为背景或角色的小城文本的研究,是一饶有意味的话题。提出“小城文学”这一概念,以及围绕这一概念所展开的文化批评,不是为了要从中国现代文学板块中切分出新的小块,也不是仅仅要把文学研究引向它的外部,更不是要否定都市文学与乡村 In recent years, the study of modern Chinese writers from small cities and the texts of small cities based on the background or role of small cities is a very interesting topic. Put forward the concept of “small town literature” and the cultural criticism launched around this concept, not for the purpose of cutting new small pieces from the Chinese modern literature, nor for merely guiding the literature research to its outside, Not to deny urban literature and rural areas