Memory And Traumas

"The narrative on Culture Revolution"has always been the focus which the Contemporary Chinese Literature continually pays attention to and contemporary writers cannot avoid. After ten years'turmoil,"scar literature"opens Literary trend of thoughts for historical memory of the trauma that brought by Cultural Revolution. Today, in mainland China, the educational world mainly refers"scar literature"to those novels on writing harms to country, people and their minds, which has an obvious realism tendency and the tragedy color. Because of its specialized historical situation and literal history meaning, scar literature was concerned and discussed from its birth. Some calls it"the muckraking literature","the sad literature","the critical realism literature"and so on, while others highly appreciate it as"the swallow for spring","the new time for literature in new period". The study on"scar literature"is based on these discussions. Starting from a passage written by Yi Hong,"Is that the muckraking literature?"in 1978, the second issue of"Literary Newspaper","the eulogy and the exposition"was discussed by the 80s Chinese contemporary history of literature. Later in the symposium of"Literary Newspaper"in Beijing, there was discussion on"Teacher in charge"and"Scar", which spread out"scar literature". With the establishment of the concept on"scar literature"and the discussion on"the eulogy and the exposition", studies on"scar literature"have emerged. Although the majority researchers have noticed that"scar literature"has an important meaning in connecting the new time literature and the old, as well as the moving characteristic on the exposition of social real tragedy. Simultaneously they also noted that scar literature was weak in figure characterization, content, language performance and so on. However, most researchers like to study these scar literature as the literary work or literature ideological trend history, rather than an elaborative narration of"Cultural Revolution". In view of the fact that the past related study on"Cultural Revolution"are in favor of parts other than general, too much discussions on style indicating that they neglected its chain link to society transition and its cultural attribute for the public to historical scar memory. This article plans to discuss the relationship between"scar literature"and the evolution of contemporary literature, the 80s cultural fever, writers'creation psychology,and Chinese tradition sense of worries from the overview of the research on"scar literature". Besides, from rational thinking, the author then carries on carefully examines to"scar literature", and again examines the cultural meaning from"history"to"reality"under the historical transitional background. Through the attention angle of"instantaneous"and"personal", concrete and slight, the author attempts to unfold another style of literal trend of"cultural revolution memory"that are not concerned.Meanwhile, another discussed topic is about the trauma from"Cultural Revolution"which influences on young generation. This is the traumas that leave to China. Traumas and memory are the historical topic that China concerns fully. China's contemporary literature is stimulated and developed by the dialectical relations between victims that were hurt by this Cultural Revolution and the spiritual savers. How can literature presents traumas without sensational and anesthesia, especially to history and to the wounds caused by history? The difficulty during this process relies on the trauma experience itself. Traumas mean you cannot precisely present and express the category of experience, behavioral, mental and body hurts. Thus, it can be viewed that, after"Cultural Revolution", writers witness the history and they know their history and harms that caused by public history. Although they are concerned as political artists by other writers, they dare to step in these forbidden areas through the literature record and present the historic events directly.There are three parts in this article.The first part is the course of"scar literature"study which contains three periods, namely (1) Emergence period (1977 - 1987): In this period, publication on"scar literature"was approximately 90. These papers mostly revolved"the eulogy and the exposition", containing whether literature should reflected the social real tragedy. (2) Faded out period (1988 - 1998): study on"scar literature"had an obvious reduction, to approximately 17 articles, which mostly discuss"scar literature"as the beginning of new time literature on the macroscopic elaboration as well as its starts, the evolution and the literature significance. (3) Emergence-again period (1999 - 2009): In this period, because of the exciting accomplishment from reform and opening up policy, more and more scholars started to review the past, which in return emerged the study on"scar literature"again with about 75 articles. We have noted that many researchers comment"scar literature"on a position in the flowing development in the historical perpetual flow.The second part is the analysis of"scar literature"and its relevant issues, containing several aspects, like the relationship between"scar literature"and the evolution of contemporary literature, the relationship between"scar literature"and the 80s cultural fever, the relationship between"scar literature"and writers'creation psychology and so on. From the rational thinking of these relations, the author carries on a better understanding on"scar literature"and its cultural field.The third part examines again on"scar literature". After having combed the research process on"scar literature"and some relevant factors, we found that"scar literature"experiences countless disputes starting from its birth. Actually, these discuss are mainly on the creation and expression types of"scar literature". This article emphasizes"scar literature", its meaning in the history of literature, the"history"and"reality"and so on under the transition periods, trying to explain it as a transition literal style from"Culture Revolution literature"to new time literature, which reflects the relation between history and reality and as a result explains its special meaning in the literature gap.This article studies the period of"scar literature"as a"wander period under a transition status", aiming to figure out the relation among"May 4th"newly literature tradition,"17 years literature","Cultural Revolution literature"and other literal situations. In the historic process of Chinese modern literature,"scar literature"is an important and indispensable chain in the integral development of literature.