Space In The Novel Narrating Of Early 1980s

Like time, space is also an important dimension of human being's cognition. Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre found the essentiality of space and the power relations incarnated in the process of space production. Literary works, by means of narrating, is formed into a composing pattern of ideal world, collective memory and personal sensation of special frames. Among the novels of the 1980s, space travel and shifting the space in narrations are quite common. It is by this kind of space shifting that the Rightie writers and literate youth writers had remedied a historical fracture after the Culture Revolution and rebuilt a narrative discourse. This construction, on one hand, is greatly related to the influences and requirements of the state ideology, while on the other, had suppressed other voices and concealed the main deficiencies of China's society and system since the Culture Revolution. Meanwhile, there has been a great deal of marginal spaces appearing in the narrations of these novels. They had been used for interpreting and complementing the central discourse, such as the countryside of Wang Zengqi's writings; or they had been neglected, such as the White Fountain on minority's cultural relationships by Zhang Chengzhi. By analyzing the narrating spaces of the 1980s' novels, we can reveal the complicated cultural relationships of this period and the influences that state ideology had on literature. Thus the purpose of introspecting the literature and system of that time will be accomplished.