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Survival Condition Of Contemporary Farmers-on Yan Lianke’s Novels

Posted on:2016-07-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Q WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330461994587Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Since the 20 th century, the structure of Chinese traditional agricultural society has begun to loose, and the life of the ancient village has begun to be impacted by the wave of the revolution and modernization. Chinese farmers had experienced a series of major upheaval, big change in a few decades. In the historical perspective,modernization inevitably filled with paradox of social development and the free development. The ultimate goal of social development is the development of human freedom, but the former always hinder the latter to stretch. The significance of contemporary writer Yan Lianke is to penetrate tough history, concern with individual life with the spirit of humanism. This paper will take Yan Lianke’s novel as the research object,investigated the fate of Chinese farmers special place in the next wave of revolution and the impact from the perspective of modern literature, "showing a specific changes of individual lives which made by special historical changes, so that the individual soul moans and cries which had been fully sheltered by the official history writing leaving faintly discernible traces. "By perusing the text, the paper is trying to summarize the main line of survival and development of contemporary Chinese farmers from the writer’s creation. It was divided into three stages ——the coagulationstatus under the political society, the blind struggle under the economic society,and mental collapse under the material society. It should be noted that, in general, the three stages are arranged timely, but the boundaries between the three is vague, showing a certain degree of cross-state. For example, the first phase of political and social mechanisms still have an impact on the social life of the second stage and the individual spirit collapse which proposed in the third stage had emerged in the second stage imperceptibly. So when cited examples in the works to analysis these stages, in order to facilitate discussion, not necessarily to follow the story of the occurrence time of the text, but rather focus on the holistic of writers. As follows: the first chapter, History of parody and deconstruction, on a historical point of view,the writer try to answer how the author to complete the isomorphic and deconstruction of history from the aspects of Utopia, the authority, and the human who is domesticated by collectivism,then to question and criticize history, thus revealing a strong Chinese peasants consciousness crisis under the political discourse discipline in the time of socialist construction; The second chapter The impact of Modernization analysis farmers in reform and opening up is how to regulate their way of life under the wealth anxiety generated by the developmentalism; The third chapter Native Spirit Loss and Reconstruction, reveals that under the contest between the urban civilization and traditional native spirit the, the disadvantaged farmersappeared unprecedented mental anxiety, and literary writers purport to rebuild spiritual home.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yan Lianke’s novels, Utopia, Modernization, Farmers’ living situation, Spiritual reconstruction
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