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On "the Post-1980 Generation" Writing

Posted on:2009-02-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z P LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245482164Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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"The Post-1980 Generation" writing is a new literary and cultural phenomenon in Chinese literary scene in the turn of the century, although it appeared for only a few years, but its display of literary and cultural influence undoubtedly shows the art value of "The Post-1980 Generation" writing and the possibility that will become a new academic point. The youth narrative is the most influential part in "The Post-1980 Generation" writing, from the perspective of sociology, cultural studies and narrative the author of this paper will analyze the youth narrative's naming, developing and changing, the historical and cultural context, the youthful emotional narrative elements and the pointing of the post-modernism, and to explore how to surmount themselves and raise to a higher artistic level.The background of "The Post-1980 Generation" writing is the unique historical and cultural context while China's transition. Family planning policy, the market economic construction and television, networks, and other modern modes of culture transmission has changed the values of the traditional and the planned economy era, post-modern mass consumption cultural replaced elite culture become culture mainstream . The joint force of economic and cultural transformation formed joint impact on "The Post-1980 Generation" and "The Post-1980 Generation" writing development.In "The Post-1980 Generation" writing the most wonderful part is the youth narrative. Rending any chapter that write the letter about youth, in between the lines there are the life growing experience that "The Post-1980 Generation" write with "direct", "sincere" attitude of youth. Because of the unique growing environment and the sensitive nature of youth, in the process of growing up the "loneliness" , "depression", "love" , "treason", "cruel" and other youthful emotional and those youthful images together to weave "The Post-1980 Generation" youth narrative discourse system."The Post-1980 Generation" writing in the post-modern consumer culture context embarked upon a political venture, post-modern equality, individuality, the commonness made "The Post-1980 Generation" writing paid particular attention to experience self-expression, depicted material desires and body feeling with extraordinary splendor and orgiastic language, impacted reader's vision nerve with exquisitely beautiful images-text, by the way of self-replicating and collage writing routines to made up for the deficiencies of literary imagination and the inadequate youthful resources, and it showed a clear tendency of the public and consumer desires.Writing "The Post-1980 Generation" immediate life experience and youthful emotion for contemporary literary has injected a fresh atmosphere. However, too commercial, the lack of the humanistic spirit and inter-generational barriers obstructed the development of "The Post-1980 Generation" writing. Literature needs spiritual experience and poetic expression, if lacking of life and inner spirit impulse, literary has not the development of the future. Only the literature obtain artistic independence and self in the cultural commerce, return the humanities and poetic in the art peace, and interpersonal communication in harmony and understanding, "The Post-1980 Generation" writing can be sublimated to a more pure, more rational state of writing, can have a better art future.
Keywords/Search Tags:"The Post-1980 Generation", the youth narrative, the pointing of the post-modernism, transcending
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