"Intellectuals Home-returning" Narration In Literature Since The 1980s

"Intellectuals home-returning" narration,from the origin of its occurrence,is the result of Chinese intellectuals' modem anxieties.The meaning of "intellectuals home-returning" possess,not only an aesthetic expression to the traditional literary theme of "nostalgia",but also one type of discourse practice that intellectuals make value choice between the east and the west,between tradition and modernity when they participate in the process of modernization in China.Whether intellectuals claim themselves as "enlightener" or "countryman",their home-returning have a qualitative difference with the pastoral returning in classical literature.What "intellectuals home-returning" narration undertaken is the "modem nostalgia" unique to intellectuals.“Intellectuals home-returning" narration after1980s,is the inheritance and development to modern“intellectuals home-returning" narration tradition.In the new historical context,"intellectuals home-returning" narration continue to highlight the uniqueness of "intellectual nostalgia",at the same time,set the background and meaning with rich times feature for it.This article will be divided into three chapters to explain that above.The first chapter,from the perspective of intellectuals' emotional changes,divided mental process of "intellectuals home-returning" since 1980s into three stages.First,it was the warm return of the intellectuals to their hometown in the early 80s.Including educated youth entering the period of "introspection",returned to their hometown to recollect their youth and ideals,and some local intellectuals hugged the family and the ground with the most sincere emotion.Next period is from the late 80s to the new century,in this long time,intellectuals have repeatedly experienced the crushing and reconstruction of their hometown dreams.One side is the embarrassing evacuation after the loss of his hometown dreams,another side is the elevation of romantic guarding spirit.Intellectuals flounder and hesitate between "return" and "leave",even in the ruthless situation of nowhere to go into insanity.However,the new stage of the development of the relationship between the intellectuals and their hometown,is the appearance of a kind of fresh rational thought after intellectuals gradually sublimate in the emotional pain.Intellectuals began to think about the relationship between the individual and his hometown,and tied to find a reasonable explanation for the individual's survival.But this consciousness is still obscure and immature,intellectuals need to further overcome the limitations of the perceptual factors to explore the true meaning of fate.The second chapter,illustrate the deep reasons of the psychological paradox that the intellectuals are "eager" and "refusing" to their hometown.In fact,it is intellectuals' opposite emotional tendencies of hometown,which is dominated by the their emotional personality or intellectual personality respectively.As the sensuous "people",they inevitably have a natural sense of identity and belonging to their hometown like ordinary people,the nostalgia of nature makes them call in the beautiful childhood memory,the city's squeeze makes them want to return to the old and simple country world,and the survival anxiety of"alienation" and "split" drives them back to their hometown to restore the integrity of themselves.However,when the hometown can not meet the imagination of the hometown of intellectuals,even in contrast to it,then the intellectuals will examine and reflect on their hormetown with theirreason.They continue to criticize the hidden backwardness and ignorance in the rural world under the spirit of enlightenment,condemn the destruction of modem civilization to their homeland in the disgust of modernity,and investigate the real life of the hometown in sense of"home".Through the unreasonable living conditions of the native people,the "wasteland" in the hometown has been discovered,which deconstructs the rationality of the hometown as the "spiritual home".The third chapter plunged "intellectuals returning" text context into the text of the social reality,in order to investigate the multifaceted metaphorical meaning of that.It is undeniable that the intellectuals who have lived in the city still cannot be divorced from the rules of the family ethics and the concept of etiquette and customs in their hometown,this is the so-called "national collective unconscious" to guide their return.But at the moment,with respect to the increasingly popular“deserting homeland" phenomenon,"returning" is a moral bondage given by intellectuals themselves.At the same time,despite the intellectuals'returning so affectionate,they also have no conscious spiritual alienation to their hometown.There is a lack of vital relations between intellectuals and their hometown,so they don't care about the "psychological distance"and do not get involved in their hometown,which makes them unable to be fully integrated into their hometown.In addition,"returning" also reflects the tragic fate of intellectuals.“Returning",is to find the ideal spiritual home.From the beginning of the modem time,the intellectuals have been seeking the way up and down in finding their homes,city or countryside,modern or traditional,intellectuals have been making a circulating choice,but intellectuals have never got the definite meaning of "homeland".To intellectuals,the pursuit of“home" is an endless journey,and home is always on the way.