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Study On Shen Congwen’s National State Of Consciousness By The Border Town And Changhe

Posted on:2017-04-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330482988196Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This paper, from the perspective of the occurrence and change of Shen Congwen’s national consciousness, depicts the characteristics of different national national consciousness reflected in Shen Congwen’s novels in different periods. The germination of Shen Congwen’s national consciousness is a sense of identity of the rural people formed in the environment of colonial discourse.This consciousness makes Alice’s Adventure in China show the author to minority culture to participate in the efforts of the construction of Chinese culture. In the 1930 s, Shen Congwen’s intellectual identity become dominant identity, his national consciousness development to a new height: seeks to become the spokesman for the image of "Chinese nation", but because of his ethnic identity makes the creation of this period,—The Border Town—poetic image of China by the Miao culture interacts with the Chinese culture influence and completed. This creation is done to local conditions and customs of the image of China as metaphor and create, Shen’s novels have the new aesthetic qualities. In the background of the Anti Japanese War, the war and the "modern" became the two themes of Shen Congwen’s national consciousness. War gives the power of Shen Congwen’s ethnic integration, but the reality is that the authorities continue to suppress and distrust their culture in Xiangxi, these factors continue to disrupt the history of the power of the war; and in another respect, from the long-term development of the country, for the modern nation state only to accelerate the pace of entering the "modern" ranks may be competing with the powers; Shen Congwen, however, found that "modern" is also the same as the erosion of the world’s only beautiful human nature in Xiangxi, which is the final support of his life experience. So Shen Congwen’s national consciousness was subjected to complex impact, which makes the narrative of the Changhe show a complex and rich thinking.At the end of this article reviews the development course of general national consciousness in modern literature,found that due to various reasons the authors understanding of the idea of a national state is still not mature, which makes the national consciousness in their works focus on the constitution, government and nation building, in this process they ignore the national construction-- that is not very good with the imagination of literature and the appeal of the establishment of the Chinese nation’s psychological and cultural identity, this psychological recognition is the basis for the establishment of national identity. In contrast, Shen Congwen’s creation is from the perspective of culture to make up the deficiencies of our nation’s national construction, for our ideological and national consciousness from the "national" to "China" of the transformation made a practical contribution.
Keywords/Search Tags:national consciousness, national image, text analysis, Alice’s Adventure in China, The Border Town, Changhe
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