A Study Of The Image Of Labor Heroes In "Seventeen Years" Industrial Novels

The industrial novels of the "Seventeen Years" period have expanded the expressive space of contemporary Chinese literature,and the image of labor heroes is its iconic creative achievement,and these labor hero images have effectively enriched the character image gallery of contemporary literary history and contain rich social and historical connotations.From the perspective of historical generation and value identification,ordinary "laborers" can be called "heroes" with deep revolutionary cultural roots.After the founding of New China,the establishment of workers’ leadership and the practice of national industrialization have greatly increased the attention of workers.The party’s literary and artistic policy and the change in the identity of writers as literary and artistic "workers" have also stimulated an upsurge in literary creation to shape labor heroes.The new and old generations of writers have a strong value identification and emotional affinity for the workers’ group,and they work together to shape the image of labor heroes,and the workers and laborers have gradually changed from the "inferior people" of the old society to the heroic image that everyone recognizes.There are four main types of labor hero images in the "Seventeen Years" industrial theme novel,namely: young workers who are competing for production,old workers who are dedicated and full of wisdom,technical intellectuals who are gradually integrated into the workers’ groups,and young female workers with distinct meanings of women’s liberation.The image of different types of workers as labor heroes jointly reflects the aesthetic construction needs of socialist culture and the process of national industrialization for the new people of the times.The specific path for the "Seventeen Years" industrial theme novel to shape the image of the hero of labor is: first establish the possible basis of the hero’s personality from the perspective of political identity,then focus on the production credit formed by their hard work and technology,and then further reveal their noble spirit of unity and cooperation,self-denial for the public,and show the unique connotation and spiritual characteristics of the workers’ labor hero in many aspects.The image of the worker labor hero represents the aesthetic imagination formed by the "seventeen years" literature based on ideological culture,and has a unique aesthetic value.However,from the perspective of value rationality in the current era,there are also limitations of thought and art,which are mainly manifested in the excessive emphasis on the collective standard,which leads to the neglect of the individual life state;the excessive emphasis on the function of honor leads to the depreciation of material conditions;the character image is too tall and perfect,and the character connotation is single,which reflects a certain deviation from the law of social life and the daily characteristics of human nature.This is not only related to the aesthetic difficulty of the industrial theme itself,but also related to the fact that the writers of the "seventeen years" period are relatively unfamiliar with the industrial theme and have fewer literary works for reference,and it is also inextricably linked to the fact that ideological culture pays attention to the function of indoctrination and neglects or even obscures other aspects.However,on the whole,the social and historical cognitive significance of the image of the worker labor hero in the "seventeen years" industrial theme novel is worthy of recognition,and the collectivist spirit and noble beauty of personality embodied in it are also worthy of respect.This article is an academic cognition formed by re-exploring the "seventeen years" industrial theme novel and the shaping of the image of the labor hero,and taking this as the ideological basis.