History And Narrative

17-year literature has public narrative pattern because of the special political background and the context of history. Its content, production mechanism and the circulated way has been influenced by ideology. In the 17-year literature which called "Red Literature", revolutionary autobiography literature displays its specificity. Going with the development of The Great Leap Forward, the revolutionary memoir has been a trend. The revolutionary memoir looks back the inseparable relationship between the personal life and the revolution. However, as the revolutionary autobiography literature has high political sensibility and is an instant response to the age, the researchers always ignore its diversity.For this reason, this text will research the revolutionary autobiography literature by putting it in the vertical history. The revolutionary autobiography literature dominates the particularity of personal experience into the universalistic narrative of the revolution. It figures out the hero images and educates the offspring by recalling the former time. The writing of personal life becomes possible because of the policy which encourages it and the writing way of "teaching-writing" mode. New modes of discourse and revolutionary subject are produced by the revolutionary memoir.This text will present the interaction of the revolutionary autobiography literature and the historical context. This text also will analyze some typical revolutionary autobiography writings, connect it with the crisis of the post-revolutionary era, try to reveal the complex relationship between the literary production and the grand concept of modern nation and state. Finally, this text will confront the Chinese society in the context of modernization by deliberating socialist crisis.