On The Rural China Narrative Of New Emigrants Literature Since 1980s

In recent years, the Occident New Emigrants Literature, especially of whose Rural China Narrative, has becoming an increasingly important phenomenon. While in the local literature, Rural Novel is also one of outstanding branch. This coincidence can provide a research perspective:we can choose the local Rural Novel as a reference, to evaluate the New Emigrants’ Rural Narrative, even the whole New Emigrants Literature. This method implies a premise:the New Emigrants Literature is one part of Chinese literature. In other words, it has many homogeneities with local literature. However, the key part should still be the differences between them, even though most of the differences are relatively. Because we treasure the New Emigrants greatly, not for they can copy local literature, but can use their unique advantages to inject some new characters to Chinese literature. Of course, the precondition is should keep the excellent qualities of local literature.Compared with local writers, the most important advantage of Emigrants is dual civilization experience, but this advantage must be translated to a writer’s spiritual resources when looking back the homeland. For only thus, can works both have international character and modern spirit, local style and manner. It should be noted that the New Emigrants have made efforts in this direction, just not particularly satisfactory. For example, they often criticize the Rural China with western culture, but sometimes they will transform this review to simple and pure negation, which is not only forget basic compassion to vulnerable groups, even appears Self-Orientalism. They usually construct dignity for Rural China with maternal identity, but sometimes they do not want to reflect the drawbacks of self-nation, which is not only give up the modern spirit, but also can appear nationalism.As to literary themes, the Emigrants like to explore the universal, abstract and common human nature, but exclude the style of social problem novels. While, they often use whole history and whole era as background, but care more about the destiny of individual, or evaluate history or era from individual position. But Emigrants writers are not a group of art for art, because of needing not to consider the local ideological taboos, they often touch some topics that mainstream culture does not want to touch, even meeting the same problems, their discussion can be more profound. But the writing models all above have many problems. For example, while leaving the social dimension, the human nature narrative may usually reduced to be conceptualizational, symbolic and metaphysical. Refusing to explore the historical nature and era spirit of the entire nation, which will appear simplification when describing the individual In addition, even if riding of China’s ideology really, but also can be caught in Occident ideology.In the aspect of artistic, the New Emigrants also have made many great achievements, some of their experiences are worthy of reference for local authors. But on the whole, the artistic creation of New Emigrants is unsatisfactory, which has been becoming the handicap in the process of their further development.So, at least in the Rural Narrative, the Emigrants authors lost something while they get something: they contribute some new characters to Chinese literature, but also lost some high qualities of local literature. They try to translate the advantage of cross-domain into the advantage of literary creation, but have not yet reached the ideal level, even sometimes let the advantage becoming the disadvantage. The Rural China just like a deep-well, it cannot easily be described, you have to deeply connected with it. Although having some drawbacks, the New Emigrants has been striving for the combination of external nutrition and inner soul, deep performance and special style. So, as long as waiting for a period of time, it’s fully capable of regurgitating the local literature.