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Combined With The Memory And Desire-The Imagination Of The Republic Of China About The Shanghai Narrative In The New Era

Posted on:2016-12-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y R LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330470465332Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The imagination of the Republic of China is a kind of new culture phenomenon, which is earlier than other areas of society in the field of literature, especially in the more unique narrative in Shanghai. With the eighties and nineties social transformation, some local writers began to focus on exploring the so-called "Shanghai Characteristics" in literature,which corresponds to the historical context of the creation of the body is the liberation of the Republic of China. They rely on finding individuals with their own experiences and memories related to "Old Shanghai" mark, Trying to rebuild, "Shanghai," the city’s cultural identity in the historical context of the New Era. However, the literature does not reflect the true mirror of history, but rather a kind of fictional narrative nature of history. So imagination of Shanghai Republican narrative is clearly not a simple historical facts reflection, but rather should be seen as a narrative construction, which is linked with the history of its narrative strategies. In the face of this reality with the intention of participating in literary narrative, examining its construction and construction of narrative ethics is the significance to the study motivation. Meanwhile, the New Era of Republican imagination for centuries as a community phenomenon of Shanghai last narrative, is also of great important for the literary history.The different "Shanghai imagination" in New Era, the Republic of China "Old Shanghai" and the moment after the nineties, "Shanghai imagination", at different levels of memory and desire,constitutes one of the two sides to seek identity of Shanghai. As a historical narrative and cultural geographical landscape, the imagination has a nature of cultural poetics of the Republic of China because of a higher level of participation in the construction of Shanghai’s cultural identity. Shanghai New Era for the narrative to realize urban modernity, making re-emergence of urban literature in the eighties and nineties,constitute another important literary roots for the same period of history, it is to re-century seaside city on the road to find the way to complete the "Shanghai," the cultural identity construction, community phenomenon became the last hundred years Shanghai narrative.
Keywords/Search Tags:New Era, Shanghai narrative, the imagination of the Republic of China, social desire, memories of the city, the narrative poetics
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