On The Rural World In Wang Anyi's Mid And Late Nineties'Fictions

Since May 4th, in the New-Vernacular Literature history, the Rural Literature has been occupying the extremely important position.Regardless of the rational critique opinions held by Lu Xun as a modern intellectual, or Beijing style writers'returning cognition represented by Shen Congwen, or the identification with the land represented by Zhao Shuli , or the reconstruction of critique subject in the new literature period, or Wang Zengqi's seeking the ideal humanity and state over the old and natural land, all is unfolding the multiple explanations that the village world possesses. Wang Anyi has inherited from them all but meanwhile surmounted them. Under her pen, the rural world displays a kind of esthetic contemplation upon the rural survival conditions, and implies a reconsidering of mordernization progress since nineteen ninities. This paper starts from this clue to analyze Wang Anyi's writing rural world as well as its significance in her fictions. In the end, this paper shall particularly points out that Wang Anyi lacks a thorough cognition of the living conditions of people in the lower class, and thus her fictions evitablly carry a sort of Utopian color.Apart from the prolusion and inclusion, this paper consists of there parts, which expound Wang Anyi's fictions featured by rural themes.The first part is about the rural world in Wang Anyi's fictions. Wang Anyi's writing rural world in the mid and late 90's fictional creation falls into three categories: namely, Huaihe River years series, shantytown- city villages, Chiangnan small towns in modern vicissitude. The rural world has the characteristics that cause it to present its many beautiful qualities. They manifest a charming harmony between man and man , man and nature, and man and labor , which forms a sharp contrast with the negative effects produced by the modernization progress. The second part discusses the rural females who manifest themselves as the embodiment of rural beauty. The female images are always what Wang Anyi pays great attention to, for she maintains that the female has more esthetic natures compared to the male. Regardless of those sisters living in the rural area, or those going out of the village like Fuping, their self-respect, independence,beauty, kindness , diligence and simple, all these good qualities leave a very deep impression upon readers.The third part expounds the significance of Wang Anyi's writing rural world.The rural land has always been one of the writing resources for native Chinese writers, and Wang Anyi is not exceptional. The rural world is not only a kind of Wang Anyi's creative resource, but also is her esthetic idea carrier as well as a reconsidering of the modernization, embodying her plain, temperate and deep humanity emotions.