The Revolutionary Discourse In The Context Of The Mass Culture

Since 1990's, as the product of market economy, mass culture, with its great penetrating influence, not only disintegrate the transcending impulse of elite culture, but also brings about a fundamental transformation of the speech form of revolutionary discourse as the main body of the official culture. However, in the literary circle there are great controversies about t the revolutionary narration of commercial consumption in the context of mass culture (including the rearrangement of the "red classics"), and a systematic understanding of the third type is still far beyond us. This thesis aims at a systematic analysis of the revolutionary narration of consumer culture and the latent crisis of identification of the dominant ideology beneath it by using mass culture as its background and employing the methods of cultural studies in the analyses of particular literary texts. This thesis is divided into four parts:Chapter One In this chapter, the present writer intends to analyze the literary two changes caused by "the Open-Door Policy". First, the ideological production of culture under the system of planned economy has transformed into the production of consumer culture based on the market system; second, the intellectuals (writers) who advocate the dominant discourse or the human spirits has begun transforming into such so-called economically-aiming intellectuals as Wang Shuo.Chapter Two This chapter mainly analyzes the characteristics of the revolutionary narration of consumer culture from two aspects. First, the paternal novels, written by the writers such as Deng Yiguang and Shi Zhongshan, are the literary practice which presents a kind of superficial sensuous intensity in the post-revolutionary age; second, the rearranged texts of the "red classics represented by "Red Women Army" and the novel, "Shajiabang, has discarded the mode of characterization of heroes—the perfection after the extreme distillation of human nature in the past, and shape the people who try to seek the perverse feeling and idle pleasant sensation(delight). Hence a transformation had changed from the political code to the sexual code. Chapter Three This chapter mainly analyzes the crisis of identification of the dominant ideology in the context of mass culture. From the expressions of revolutionary discourse in recent years, we can find out the trend of the consumer cultural ideology's deconstruction of the dominant ideology. However, in the specific Chinese context, the revolutionary discourse cannot be encoded randomly because it remains under the control of power and discourse. Such kind of control has undergone a transition from the political criticism to Gramsci's cultural hegemony.Conclusion In the chapter, the present writer discusses the construction and future tendency of the "red discourse".