An Essay On Ma Shitu’s Revolutionary Historical Novels

Ma Shitu was a revolutionary and a writer,and his dual identity is a point of view that cannot be ignored in the study of Ma Shitu.Ma Shitu’s identity as a revolutionary created an opportunity for him to become a writer,and his legendary revolutionary experiences provided valuable raw material for his literary creations.His literary creations are an exploration of the historical memory of the revolution,recalling both his own experiences of the revolutionary struggle and the heroic deeds of his revolutionary comrades.Revolutionaries have a special affection for revolutionary memory,and Ma Shitu always maintains a sincere stance when writing about this memory.The quality of sincerity runs through Ma Shitu’s literary creations and accompanies the revision process of his works,which are expressed in different ways in different historical periods,giving them a complex character.The thesis focuses on three main aspects:Overview of Ma Shitu’s revolutionary historical novels.The writer Ma Shitu has a rich experience of revolutionary struggle,and these experiences have condensed into a unique revolutionary memory,which has become a latent motive for Ma Shitu’s literary creation.Stimulated by chance(such as people or events or objects related to the revolution),Ma Shitu quickly put his latent motivation into practice and began his creative journey.Ma Shitu’s revolutionary historical novels can be divided into four periods:the initial period before the founding of the state,the brief active period during the 17 years,the period of "potential writing" during the Cultural Revolution,and the period of legendary writing in the new era.His works span a wide range of time and take on different faces in different historical periods.Ma Shitu’s revolutionary historical novels of the 17-year period were written in the midst of the "mainstream" and "heresy".Ma Shitu embraced revolutionary history with sincerity and remembered revolutionary heroes with true feelings.His works reflected the difficult and tortuous revolutionary history,but also expressed the true humanity and complex emotions of revolutionary heroes.Ma Shitu’s writing on revolutionary history makes the subject matter of his works conform to the mainstream of the times,while the expression of his true humanity and complex emotions makes Ma Shitu’s creations’heretical’ under certain historical conditions.As a revolutionary,Ma Shitu sincerely accepted the Party’s literary policy and the criticism of his works from the literary circles of the time,and constantly revised his works,the revision of his long novel Qing Jiang Zhuang Ge being particularly typical.It can be said that during his seventeen years of writing and revising in good faith,Ma Shitu struggled to move forward between the mainstream and the "heretics".Ma Shitu’s revolutionary historical fiction since the New Age is a return to his original heart in the fusion of ’state’ and ’folk’.His passionate discourse on revolutionary legends and his writing for the unsung heroes show his identification with the mainstream political ideology of the state,while his passionate discourse on folk discourse and his absorption of folk cultural forms show his identification with folk cultural forms.The relationship between the state and the folk in Ma Shitu’s revolutionary historical novels is not an antagonistic one,but a fusion of the two that reflects the author’s pursuit of sincere writing.Writing with sincerity is the gesture of Ma Shitu’s literary creation.Ma Shitu writes with sincerity about the history of the revolution,revealing its magnificent waves,hardships and twists;he remembers the heroes of the revolution with sincerity,writing touching heroic deeds and reflecting true human nature and complex emotions.Ma Shitu interprets the position of a revolutionary as a writer,and achieves a fusion of the position of a revolutionary and that of a writer in his literary creation.