As A Narrative "labor"

Based on the specific historical and cultural context, the thesis reviews and reflects from different perspectives on novel creation between1950s and1970s, in which Mao Zedong Literary and Artistic Thought dominated this period of literature creation. Because the national ideology emphasized labor, especially physical labor, a unique "labor " narration way formed at this period with demonstrating labor and praising labor as the central theme. By taking this as the research object, the thesis selects the following topic:the " labor and ethics"," labor and intellectual transformation "," labor and gender liberation " and " labor and aesthetic expression " to probe into the relationship between labor and rural ethic and morality evolution, the female liberation, the fate of intellectuals, and appreciation of body and scenic beauty, to reveal the unique characteristics after " labor" was involved in the creation of novels as a special factor, thus deeply exploring realistic function, artistic expression, aesthetic characteristics and important literary history value of " labor " narration way.Introduction:The research background, literature review, research objectives, main ideas, methods and main innovative points are presented. And the core concepts in this thesis are defined and chapter layout is introduced.The first chapter political ideology and " labor " narrative discourse generation. From the following three perspectives:the " labor " concept in the Chinese traditional culture, Marx’s view of " labor " core concept, and " labor " consciousness in Mao Zedong Thought, the " labor " narrative to generate ideological source and background is discussed. And, from50-70’s literary writer composition,"Deep into life" systematization and literature criticism, how a particular literary production mechanism regulates and constrains the "labor " narrative generation is probed.The second chapter:labor and Ethics remodeling. Labor became the main contents of daily life expression during this period. Both in daily life and in text creation, labor was endowed with special moral and political significance, and then changed the traditional ethical order. The first section mainly discusses how labor transformed rural " hobo", making these "out of order "to be incorporated into the political order in the countryside; The second section discusses how labor changed and remodeled the traditional family paternity ethics; The third section looks at how labor rewritten the love and marriage from love descriptions in labor activities.The third chapter:Labor and intellectual transformation. Intellectual labor reform is an important part of Mao Zedong labor reform thought. The first section studies how the image of intellectuals was shaped and underlying emotional evaluation in this period of writings about intellectual who were under labor regulations. The second Chapter is labor and redemption, discusses how the hope of labor transformation ended and burst in the literature by selecting writer Zhang Xianliang as representative.The fourth chapter labor and women liberation. Labor became the new approach and chance of women liberation in New China. The first section mainly states labor loosened the shackles of the traditional family ideas on women, enabling them to break into society; The second section mainly discusses dilemma and helplessness housewives were facing in labor liberation; The third section discusses paradox and embarrassment of female liberation from perspective of the " male enhancement" female who were demanded and modeled by the labor; finally, through analysis and interpretation on " does not work " women in literature works, offbeat female awareness expression in literature works of this period are conveyed.The fifth chapter:labor and aesthetic expression. This chapter mainly probes into unique aesthetic style formed in "labor "narrative forms of this period from the aesthetic perspective. The first section, from the body aesthetic point of view, discusses how the labor regulated physical appearance and the spirit in all aspects; the second section, from the landscape dimensions, discovers the aesthetic attitude which is the pursuit of labor narrative in this period and magnificent, resulting formation of aesthetic taste of the concrete reality.Conclusion:Beginning and the end of the labor age. The beginning of the age came from demand of the national ideology, taking labor as core concept and uniting social members to join the construction of "labor Utopia ". The end of labor time came from the "individual" embezzled and segmented the public, labor lost its ideal effect. The literature writing about labor between1950s and1970can give more thinking and implication for present literature writing and society.Appendix:intellectual labor exile:mainly from the perspective of the writes during the Cultural Revolution period and "Five Seven" cadre school records life and recall by some writers, in forms of the diary and prose works, this section explores the intellectual cognition and attitude for labor transformation.