Deconstruction On Grand Narrative Of1970s’ Malaysian-chinese Writers

Malaysian-Chinese literary circle is accustomed to divide writer groups bygenerations.70s’writers refer to the writers who were born between1970and1980.He Shufang, Li Zishu, Weng Xianwei, Gong Wanhui, Zeng Linglong, Liang Jingfen,Chen Zhihong, Xu Yuquan, Liang Heng, Zhang Cao and other70s’writers started torise in the middle and late1990s. They received many literary awards in Malaysia andoverseas, and became mainstays of Malaysian-Chinese literature gradually.Due to their special growth environment and the development trend of literatureitself,70s’ writers are showing a deconstructive attitude in their works. Grandnarrative deconstruction of1970s’ Malaysian-Chinese writers reflected subversion ofethic codes, historical event, national politics, rational mythology and novel’sauthenticity in traditional novels. This deconstruction can be divided into two aspects:First, the deconstruction of formal aspect, which shows in widely use of meta-fiction;Second, the deconstruction of content, which shows in the subversion of traditionalhistorical writing, political writing and encomium of extreme individual writing. The70s’ writers are keen to use the meta-fiction to mix up the reality and fiction, foreliminating the facticity of novels and querying the reality. Grand history and politicsare eliminated in their novels. They tend to use New Historicism to construct theirhistorical writing from individual perspective or use allegorical writing to reveal theabsurd of politics. After eliminating writing on historical event,“Hero” created bywriters became useless, only left ordinary people living in history and trivial life.Meanwhile,70s’ writers are fond of small narrative. They tell stories from individualperspective, to dispel and subvert authoritative discourse and mainstream narrativeand describe homosexual love, memories of minority and darkness in human’s heartto form historical event deconstruction——politics, history, culture and nationality etc.are peeled off in the narrative deconstruction, in which individual are showed insteadof groups.The writings are full of deconstruction, enriching Malaysian-Chinese literary world. At the same time, we should be aware of its lacking of indigenous sense,historical awareness and spiritual values showed in their works.