The 1990s Hong Kong City Novel Research

At the beginning of 1990s, the globalization tide engulfs the entire world. It brings another remarkable characteristic called"post-modernity". According to Fredric Jameson, post-modernistic characteristic is from feeling vanishing, the non-depth feeling, the superficial and weak historical feeling. The appearing of globalization and post-modernistic society is the 1990s Hong Kong literature's language environment. The 60 and 70's of 20th century is the time that the Hong Kong native consciousness sprouted and grew up. Hong Kong writers started to show loving care for the native place, read the city by new angle, express approval to this city and established main body consciousness by city primarily through writing. When the time stepped into 1990s which numerous sounds clamored,"97"return initiated another turn of writing to Hong Kong history, culture and city itself. It also had continued taking"city"as the subject which appeared in the 70's Hong Kong novels. Comprehensively survey 1990s, it not only had the anxiety of the transition-period, but also had tranquility when"97"truly came. Hong Kong people have some new point of view in the end of the century after the return. Therefore, in this time, Hong Kong city novels surely has its richly colorful something which worth us to discover. Studying for the 1990s Hong Kong city novels, the main goal also lies in discovering one kind of narrative strategy. From the writers' choices of narrative strategy, we can find out interactive relations between the city and the novel, seek one kind of communication between the literary research and the cultural research. For the goal, this article commands the Hong Kong city novels' special characteristic by"fluctuation"as the key word, tries to carry on three-dimensional explanation of time view, spatial view as well as narrative angle of view, narrative technique which displays in the works of this time. All said"the city like text". Telling about various stories for Hong Kong may regard as an important method to continue the significance of existence of Hong Kong in the new time.