Su Tong Novel Aesthetic Ideology Criticism

This thesis tries to reread the context of Su Tong's works by means of ideological criticism, by which we analyze what implies and discover the peculiar discourse in Su Tong's novels.First, I inspected the perspective of"child/adolescence"which is the most peculiar in a series of Su Tong's works about adolescence, and figured out that Su's contextual practice process leads to a calling to the new Subject, which means that Su offers a new phenomenal relationship between the Individual and the world. A relationship between the individual and the nation-state system, the former that is inherently deep, solitary, misshapen and vindictive, while the latter that is suppressive and grand.Next, I inspected Su's novels in the theme of neo-historicism in order to prove that this aroused and unchained Individual is eager to seek a new domain where can temporarily settle his disembodied spirits, to discover that this Individual has occupied the historical space and created a new historical hermeneutics while embodying himself simultaneously. This historical hermeneutics calls off the legitimacy of historical narrative strategy for the capital"Human". However, the invasion of this new Subject intends to occupy the space of social reality.From my point of view, the mundane lives in Su's context could provide evidence for his intention to replace the"grand North"by the"decadent South". He replaced the grand narration of nation-state by an ethnographical social space, and ultimately legitimatized the mundane society, whereas the vindictive and solitary spirit became a common civilian in the new market society.