The Neo-historicism Narrative Of Yu Hua

Yu Hua is a very noticeable writer in the view of Chinese contemporary literary. The narrative about history is always an aspect of Yu Hua's creation. With most studies focusing on the unique form and the subject in his works, his historical narrative is neglected. The author tries to make a complete interpretation about Yu Hua's historical narrative from the perspective of comparative literature in this thesis. It will try to provide an afterwards researcher with a new angle of new historicism and Foucault's power theory.The thesis is composed of three parts.In the first chapter, the background of the neo-historicism narrative of Yu Hua is analyzed. As an answer for the requirement of recovering historical consciousness in the European-American critical world, domestic intense political culture atmosphere, and the writer's writing desire for the innermost feelings, Yu Hua has chosen to narrate the history since the end of 1980s.The second chapter includes two sections. With the new historicism as the critical weapon, Yu Hua's doubt about traditional history vision is emphatically illustrated in the first section. It puts forward his doubt on the objectivity and the inevitability of history from the perspective of " the textuality of history" and the contingency of history. That is to say, it is impossible that any narrative and explanation about history is completely objective and real, there must be some fabrication; history is made up of all sorts of accidental factors in its process, therefore, the individual's destiny in history will manifest its uncertainty. Under Foucault's theory of power, mainly including marginal character, marginal consciousness and marginal conclusion, Yu Hua's deconstruction of the traditional history narrative is rediscovered. That the so-called historical progress is only at the cost of the sacrifice of those unimportant persons'benefits becomes so apparently. In fact, behind the historical reason, there is the cruelty.In the third chapter, after realizing that he has deconstructed the traditional...