Literature Written In The Folk Memory

This thesis discusses the folk memory in literary writing through analyzing Xiao Lihong's novels. It focuses on the issue that how the daily folk-practices become the literary folk-custom, in which the folk memory serves as an intermediary agent.Chapter one discusses the issue that how the daily-life and times influence the generation of folk-memory. The folk memory derives from folk environment in the author's childhood, and it's also affected by the cultural values during the author's growth. Thereafter, the folk memory becomes a group of cultural sub-consciousness, containing various possibilities of cultural pursuit. During the author's writing, the folk items, including folk legends, folk songs, festivals, customs and human relationship, are bestowed certain special political and aesthetic concerns.Chapter two discusses the issue that how the collective and ethnic consciousness constructed by the folk-memory, and how the author bestowed certain kind of cultural order or imagination of nation-state beneath the folk items.Chapter three discusses how the folk-memory influences characters' inspirational experiences, which taking the character's growth experiences in Xiao's two novels for examples. The daily customs in Xiao's literary writing transformed to the life experiences for affection and inspiration.The last chapter discusses how the Budai town transformed to certain original hometown by the folk-memory-based temporal experiences, in which the town contains both affection of family and transcendency of secular emotions. The temporal dimension in Xiao's novels stretches, which resets the aesthetic and cultural values of the folk land.In sum, the aim of this thesis is to clarify the issue that how the daily customs transform into the literary customs with the help of intermediary folk-memory.