Revolutionary Accounting, Native Narration And Regional Description

The study on Chinese literature in twentieth century from the perspective of regional culture has been the focus of the academia during the recent ten years. With a view of the great influence of the western particular geographical and humanistic environment to the Novel of West China, the thesis discusses the change of the Novel of West China, its status in the contemporary literature situation, its aesthetic pursuit, its relationship with the religion and folk-custom culture, its comparison with the "new city novel", its choice and trend in the age of globalization. Furthermore, it also explores the great value and significance of the Novel of West China, as one element of Chinese contemporary literature, to the contemporary literature thoughts.Chapter one makes an essential stipulation to the Novel of West China and clears up its characteristics of "four eras and three periods" since 1949. On this basis, this chapter emphasizes its path of "from the edge to the typical" during its first developmental period. This chapter also comes down to the Novel of West China's various characteristics for the different writers during the different periods. At the same time, it makes a whole view to the Novel of West China in the new century from the perspective of different writers' thoughts and cognition.Chapter two analyzes the trend of Chinese contemporary literature's shift to the West China since 1949 and the status of the Novel of West China in the contemporary literature situation. The thesis covers the intention of the first generation of writers of the Novel of West China to occupy the "power of saying" from the intellectual writers, the writers' successful or imperfect pursuit of "epic", as well as the younger writers' creation since 1980s, such as Jia Pingwa, Lu Yao, Zhang Chengzhi, Zhaxidawa, Xue Mo, Hongke. In this chapter, the review of the relationship between literature and politics is also an essential topic. The developmental situation of the contemporary Novel of West China in 1990s is also stressed in the present chapter.Chapter three focuses on the aesthetic pursuit of the writers of the Novel of West China. The thesis makes a detailed analysis to the aesthetic pursuit of the three generations' writers. It not only points out their differences, but also stresses on their inner unification and succession during the process of aesthetic pursuit. In this chapter, the western geographical and humanistic environment is the repeated topic. While the pursuit to the heroes, the presence of the aesthetic significance of the western vastness, desolation and mystery, and the deep sensibility to the western territory have been the consistent pursuit of the generations of writers of the Novel of West China.Chapter four analyzes religion and folk-custom culture's profound influence to the Novel of West China, viewing the peculiarity of the Novel of West China from the perspective of religion and folk-custom culture. In this chapter, the focus is on the works of Jia Pingwa, Zhaxidawa, Zhang Chengzhi, Ma Yuan and Hongke. The culture influence of the Buddhism from the Tibet and Islamism has been the essential cultural foundation for us to study the Novel of West China. What's more, the survey of the folk ceremonies, folk songs and dialects are also stressed in this chapter.Chapter five is about the comparison of the Novel of West China and "the new city novel". Through the comparison, we can clearly see the value and significance of the Novel of West China in the aspect of literature "localization". The section of the "the theme of city" in the Novel of West China has also been analyzed thoroughly in order to understand the trend of the Novel of West China and the fact of its basic characteristic of "countryside theme".Chapter six explores the topic of the choice and trend of the Novel of West China in the age of globalization, which is worth of our attention in reality. It is of great significance for the contemporary Novel of West China as well as the trend of Chinese contemporary literature in the new century. This chapter pinpoints the tragic spirit and misery consciousness of the Novel of West China, introspection spirit and exploitation consciousness of the writers of the Novel of West China. The thesis probes into the people's resilience attitude and active efforts to the future in West China, which fully reveals the necessity and possibility of the "literature localization".