Understratum Narration

Many scholars have tried to explain the validity of the term understratum since it was put forward in the early 1990s;nevertheless, it remains confusing ,vague and ambiguous. Beginning with the controversy over the concept of understratum ,this article reveals the essence of understratum involved in modernistic discourse, and then expounds on the humanitarian solicitude and realistic standpoint which understratum Narration should stick to,by analyzing the object and misunderstanding of Understratum Narration.As the disadvantaged groups in modernistic discourse, understratum can't expound on itself, so lots of critics make deep research on many aspects such as understratum and how it should be narrated. In the text practice of understratum narration, mistakes exist in a great quantity of works ,such as trumping up morality, discarding aesthetics, uglifying, jesting and pseudo tribulation narration, single dimension writing, which hold back the sound development of the current understratum narration in some extent.Nowadays, it is essential for us to reconstruct the standpoint of intellectuals, to emphasize the importance of humanitarianism in understratum narration. Thus we can observe common people of the understratum with a horizontal angle of view, and reveal the spirit of the understratum to the inner sides of human nature and individual value in many aspects, reflecting the reality, ideas, and spirit of the understratum and the contemporaries as well. The aim is to safeguard the spiritual belief of the understratum, and to make humanitarianism the spiritual sustentation of the understratum narration.Since the new century, many masterpieces on understratum narration reach considerable height and depth, we can find from them the new potentiality and wider space of humanitarianism and great vigor of realism in understratum narration. Realistic criticism should be the important expression standpoint of understratum narration, both on the radicalness and criticism of content , and on the experimentation and exploration of forms.By the expounding in the four parts, this treatise outlines the background, status quo and vista of understratum narration in modernistic culture context, and reaches a conclusion that humanitarian solicitude and realistic standpoint are both the most important. Basing itself on realism, understratum narration will continue to explore the possibility of human existence and innovation of literary types.