Political Unconscious And Wang Meng’s Novels After The1990s

Wang Meng is a very close political ties writer,who was born in1930s and witnessed thegrowth of the new China, His youth and the youth’s life is full of political struggle, so, WangMeng has a strong political complex in Soul and creation. His soul has a firm belief in therevolution and political beliefs, his creation has the indelible traces of political.The novel ofWang Meng in1950s is full of fiery passion and revolutionary ideals,but in1990s, thispolitical complex appears to be to give up out, this is not only related to the culture of the riseof the market in the market economy environment, but also Wang Meng repel politicalliterature in1950s. However, when we carefully study the works of Wang Meng in90yearsafter the novel, We can find easily, Wang Meng’s novel has the political stigma left, althoughtraces hidden is not so obvious, but it does not completely disappear. Select the Wang Meng’snovel in the1990s to study, we can get a glimpse of the political extraordinary significancein Wang Meng novel, when this imprinted deeply imprinted on his soul, it has become theshackles of Wang Meng cannot open, this is not only a crisis of Wang Meng, but also theplight of the people of that generation, through the case of Wang Meng, we can get theperspective of politics has significance for the writers in his generation and even thefar-reaching implications for the entire history of literature.This paper use Fredric Jameson’s political unconscious theory to explain why Wang Meng’snovel has never been able to get rid of the political entanglement, among them, to useJameson’s utopian ideology theory to explain Wang Meng has been the political ideologysuch a presence occupied the dominant position in his soul, and this ideology has not been notaware of by us, but hidden behind the market ideology, but it does not disappear, andoccasionally surfaced by unconscious, so that we will be able to explain clearly how hardrational political concept lingering Wang Meng of thought and creation, even in the1990swhen market culture occupy a major position, after Wang Meng experienced layers ofmetamorphosis, he still cannot completely get rid of it. In addition, Jameson’s politicalunconscious theory will also explain exactly how to be intertwined between Wang Mengnovels and politics. This paper choose two aspects to discourse, one hand, to discusses the works of Wang Meng’s utopian ideal to create a revolutionary ideals and youthful tone, on theother hand, to discusses because of the reality cannot meet him better vision and he createintervention works. Although in the works after the1990s, we saw a lot of new elements, wecan still find some kinds of spiritual connection between them and previous novels.This paper discuss from three aspects. The first part discuss Wang Meng’s spirit confused.As the rise of market ideology in1990s market economic environment, Wang Meng began totry to make a change and adjustment, and tride to escape the creative concept that linkingliterature and revolution, avoided “hypocrisy of lofty”, rescuing literature from theultra-leftist political culture authoritarian, this is not only owing to Wang Meng want use thestrategy to fight a war to defend literature, but also a helpless choice to have a foothold in1990s literature world, but he felt contradictory, he still cannot completely insulated withpolitical. The second part is from history and politics to novels, through analysis of works, toexplore how political influence of his novels.Especially, politics this hard rational concept ishow to change soft ideology, so, this paper link to Chinese ruling characteristics after1949,attempted to explain political management is how to change ideology thoughts to Intertwinewith the literature. The third part is from novels to history, Wang Meng had made a lot ofefforts in the1990s to free literature from the political, but, through analyzing the novels, wecan dig out the “gap” fighting between literature and politics. By "symptomatic reading" ofthe theory, to find this gap and breaks, put the spearhead to politics. Through history andpolitics is influence of literature, from text analysis to politics finally, this comprehensive andobjective analysis of Wang Meng, to restore a real Wang Meng, and by the Wang Mengindividual to get a glimpse of the whole history of literature, this has profound significancefor rewriting literary history.