鲁迅被很多人称赞为中国上个世纪最伟大的作家。当提到鲁迅时，教科书式的解读告诉我们鲁迅是一个五四反叛精神的启蒙与领导者。他揭露了封建社会的丑恶，传统文化的腐朽与国民性的愚弱。不幸的是，这种阅读往往掩盖了文本的含糊之处，在文本中分裂出了一个恒定的过去，并且忽略了鲁迅描绘对传统文化完全反叛时的不安。本课程希望把鲁迅带回到历史语境中，而不是将他单纯读作一个传统中国社会的诊断者。除了精读、重读鲁迅的短篇小说、散文诗与杂文之外，我们也将引入一些批判理论概念来帮助我们打开文本阐释的空间。我们将以费穆1948年的经典电影《小城之春》作为课程的结尾，并反思历史、创伤、记忆、性别、时间、革命和希望等主题。

Lu Xun is widely considered as the greatest Chinese writer of the past century. Often received as a May Fourth iconoclast, Lu Xun has been canonized as a radical anti-traditionalist that “exposes the ugliness of the Chinese feudal society.” Unfortunately, such reading often glosses over the textual ambiguities, bifurcates the past and the present, and ignores his deep-seated unease in depicting the traditional Chinese cultural subjects. Rather than reducing the ambivalences inherent in his texts to contradictions to be reconciled, this course proposes a symptomatic as opposed to diagnostic re-reading of Lu Xun that dwells at length upon the central problematics Lu Xun poses. We will read his short stories and prose poems alongside theoretical concepts that might help to open up interpretative possibilities. We will wrap up the class with Fei Mu’s 1948 classic film Spring in a Small Townand reflect on general themes like trauma, gender, temporality, revolution, and hope.