楚图南是中国现代文化史上声名卓著的学者、文学家。抗战期间他以云南的报刊为阵地,较为系统地阐述了他的抗战文艺思想,即抗战文艺要有现实性和针对性;要多方面、多角度去描写抗战中的社会生活,抗战文艺要有战斗性和地方性;对云南文艺发展特殊性的认识和对抗战救亡文化的理解。对楚图南抗战文艺思想的探讨,有助于理解云南本土现代文艺建设的艰难性和复杂性。
Chu Tunan is a distinguished scholar and writer in China’s modern cultural history.During the antiJapanese war,he was based in Yunnan and elaborated systematically his literary thought about the reality and relevance of literature and art.In his opinion,there should be a multi-faceted,multi-angle description to the social life in the Anti-Japanese War;the literature and art in the war should be fighting and with local feature.He also talked about his understanding of the peculiarity of the development of the arts and cultural in Yunnan and the culture of resistance and saving the nation.The study on Chu Tunan’s thought of Anti-Japanese War literature and art during helps to understand the difficulty and complexity of the construction of modern literary in Yunnan.