The Diversification In The Image Of Peasant Characters Portrayed In The Seventeen-year Land Revolution Novels

In the thesis,the author examines how the image of peasant characters portrayed in the seventeen-year Land Revolution novels became overextended,in the process in which it was forced to be continuously adjusted and modified accordingly to a variety of ideal models and identities,due to the aspiration to modernize the ethics of revolution.In other words,the effort,in accordance with the ethics of revolution,to realize the transformation of identity for the peasants had failed.At least in the worlds of these novels,this fact caused the identity of the peasants to become obscured,and the peasants themselves marginalized in the society of the city/country binary.The thesis is formed by three parts,namely the prolegomenon,the main body and the epilogue;the main body comprises five chapters.A summary is given as follows:In the prolegomenon,the goal,purpose and scope of the research are defined;the concepts are explained;the current status of,methods and innovations in research are summarized.Chapter One-Peasants,a mirror image of the Landowners.First off,the transmutation of the image of the landowners was examined to help understand how this image was brought to being.After such an image was then adopted into the seventeen-year literature works,it was portrayed from variant perspectives when the way the image of peasants is portrayed also became variant.Meanwhile the overlapping of some of characteristics in both images is viewed as being caused by the critical construction following the ethics of revolution,as well as a projection of the value of the peasants in reality.The peasants eventually started to exhibit a collection of characteristics that were initially typical to the image of the landowners,which had then become ever elusive afterwards.Such overlapping was further demonstrated through comparisons.Chapter Two-Influence of Agragrianism and the Subsumption into Petite Bourgeoisie class of the Middle Peasant Class.In this chapter,the inception of concept the middle peasant class,as well as the historical reason to the subsumption into Petite Bourgeoisie class of it are discussed.It was then proposed that the reproof of the middle peasant class by the ethics of the revolution to be viewed as indication of another land revolution,which is to clear way for the afterwards total agrarian harmonization.The fact that a great number of prominent writers turned away from adopting such ideology however indicated these writers' disagreement with viewing part of the peasant body as target of another land reform movement.The peasant characters created under the influence of such conflict more than often became paradoxes incarnating both individual identities and group identities.This fact further indicates the influence of agrarianism on these writers,and the suffering of hunger consistently insinuated in their works helped to confirm such influence.Chapter Three-Abstract Depiction of the Hungary Peasants and the subconscious dialogue between the writers.The co-existence of the explicitly spoken good harvests and the implicitly hinted lack of food supply was firstly pointed out.This paradox is often exhibited by the stashing and smuggling of food by the middle peasant class and some officials.The complexity of the image of the middle peasant class,whose suffering of hunger was portrayed in ways individual to the writers,is then discussed in this chapter.The difference in the ways hunger was depicted in these novels and the left-wing novels from the 1930s was also discussed through comparison.The last part of this chapter focuses on the how Eileen Zhang,an expat Chinese novelist,and those from Mainland China coincided in paying notice of the hunger,violence and other issues that ramified from the land revolution movements.It is then suggested that such coincidence can be viewed as indicative of the subconscious dialogue between the writers.Chapter Four,the Attempts to Reestablish the Image of Modern Peasants.In this chapter,the author analyzes how attempts were made to mold the peasant image into those of the industrial workers and soldiers in the modern sense.It was first pointed out that,as attempts to industrialize of the rural areas were made,the peasants were forced to adapt to a more worker like identity.As such a large scale social experiment was carried out,problems emerge as the peasants gradually lose their identity as peasants but failed to efficiently establish their identity as workers.On the other hand,it is postulated by the ethics of the revolution that the industrial workers are led by the new revolution generation.Following this logic,the "political vanguards" and the "art vanguards" defined in the Vanguard Theory are examined.It was then pointed out that the militarization of the bottom-level officials in rural regions,influenced by the superior the "political vanguards",not only helped us the aggressiveness of such an identity reform,it also revealed concerns of the writers on the militarization of peasants.At last,how this extremist tendency can be viewed as reactionary to modernity is discussed.Chapter Five-A brief reset of the image of the peasantry within the text.This chapter discussed the reason why farmers are the true thoughts,actions and words of the peasants.First of all,discussed the illusion of farmers' private ownership of land,this shows that it is difficult to reverse the concept of private ownership of farmers.But the relevant fiction appeared in those who have abandoned the private illusion of land farmers,who often with selfishness to reveal the revolutionary ethics to give them the glory.which is the conflict between the revolutionary ideals and the materialism of the peasants,It is in most of the relevant novels to the latter's vague victory ended.Because the lofty revolutionary ideals must satisfy the real interests of the peasants or make commitments to the future,Only in this way can it obtain the legitimacy and rationality of reality and fictional narration.Thus,the description of the farmer's materialism involves how to "write real" questions.This is the best chance of expressing the whole seventeen-year of literature in the "Intervening Life" novel.In addition,the previous "intervention" novel understanding,not to the rural narrative object that part of the work,which is not consistent with the Soviet intervention in life novels.So,this chapter tries to reposition the novels that intervene in the land revolution as a narrative object,in which the image of the peasants described here has formed a certain connection with the May 4th literary tradition.Thus,a brief reset of the image of the farmer is finally confirmed in the intervening life novel,this is the writer's correction of the image of the diverse peasantry,which was built under the auspices of revolutionary ethics.Conclusion.Summarize the issues of the full text,and point out its innovation.