Urban Novels Of The 1990s Folk World

To advance the theory that named Dushi Minjian is a new angle of view, in which the intellectuals participate in creating the Chinese metropolitan novels under the nameless situation since 1990s. As far as its reality, it is an aesthetic cultural space concealed in the numerous consciousness of the modern city, together with the memory of daily life and the edge identity of bottom individual in the urban culture. To contrast with the discourse of the mainstream ideology, it lies in the low status far away from the power, it is a new writing position to take part in the urban culture and the spirit construction with the equal stance after the intellectuals turned their value tropism from the temple and square. As far as its narrative character, it is an aesthetic form, which is fragmental, fictional and simple, to express the multi-ply humanism cognizance to the modern urban life, thus it represents the local modernity aesthetical style, dirty -shielding. The theory of Dushi minjian represents some characters as below. The narrative subject is the urban individual repetition of the grand narrating under the control of the new ideology, which has the function to de-construct and overthrow the legality of the latter. The narrative object of the Dushi Minjian pays attention to the powerless public whom were concealed by the false promises of the mainstream social modernization, thereby the original Tightness and the humanism thought could be found. The narrative form is not a kind of pure narrating of Minjian area, but concentrated on the aesthetic space, thus self-speech would harvest its possibility, significance and value consequentially in the multifold narrating among the political discourse, commercial discourse and the intellective discourse. The more important is, to return to the Minjian position and aesthetic world is one of the working styles for the intellectual to intervention the real social life and the construction of the urban cultural space. Such action shows the bravery aimed at the reality and power inspirited the spirit. All of above would gather together into the most valuable idealistic source for the intellectual during the course of the modernity transformation.