A Discussion On Historical Consciousness Of Chinese Novel Dementia Narrative In 1990s

Dementia narrative is an item of especially noticeable landscape in Chinese novel creation in 1990s. Dementia patient as voice and view, because of its complex cultural image, linguistic characteristic and emotion experience, Chinese novel dementia narrative in 1990s presents many kinds of text characteristic as recounting history by the edge standpoint, spatialization narrative on history writing, poetic or coarse narrative style, real and imaginary narration world and entirely irony in narrative structure and so on. These text characteristics are communicating the text consciousness stratification in secret. As the meaning form, they secrete the historical consciousness which is different from the new Chinese 40 years literature's. Specifically speaking, it contains opening historical shape and narration posture, taking the history as one esthetic rhetoric object. Laying this set of historical consciousness in the coordinate axis of Chinese contemporary literature, we can see clearly, the former refutes and surmounts the latter limitedly when it realizes the limit of the latter.This article is divided five parts to discuss the thesis on historical consciousness of Chinese novel dementia narrative in 1990s. In part of introduction, the author confesses the object of study and the thesis, combs the germination and evolution situation of dementia narrative in the 20th century literature of China, and points out intrinsic connection between dementia narrative and historical consciousness. In part 1, according to concrete texts, the author summarizes kinds of text characteristic in dementia narrative. In part 2, embarking from the text characteristic of Chinese novels dementia narrative in 1990s, the author discusses the historical consciousness of Chinese novel dementia narrative in 1990s. In part 3, taking four concrete texts as the example, the author reveals an unique world that Chinese novel dementia narrative in 1990s recalls. In the end, the author is attempting to appraise briefly historical consciousness of Chinese novel dementia narrative. Under the background of globalization, the author considers that Chinese novel dementia narrative in 1990s isn't simple restoration of "great narrative", and its appearance is the result of Chinese literature/culture logic development. The author points out its specimen significance for observing complex thought condition at the end of 20th century.