The Anxiety Of Locality Disappearing

Fan Hua is a Shanghai nostalgic novel,tells the story of the protagonist who are born in the People's Republic of China,showing the past of Shanghai fromprotagonists' juvenile to middle-aged.The novel is full of "local experience and emotion",showing a strong nostalgic atmosphere.Butitis different from the nostalgia in Shanghaisince 1990s,it is full of "tonality" of the Shanghai language,show "on the only angle" and "under the corner" "alley" and "workers village",production space and Consumption of space,which construct the Shanghai people's cultural map,opened the history and daily of the city which is shadedby the "modern"Shanghai.Fan Huashows the efforts of the author who try to produce Shanghai "local"through the"nostalgia",but what is behind the "nostalgia" is the "anxiety " produced by the disappearing of the sense of place characterized byhe "alley","road" and"dialect".The first chapter of this paper explore the different aspects of Fan Hua nostalgia and historical logic compared with the nostalgia of the 1990s,and lead another possibility of "Shanghai narrative".The second chapter discuss the "nostalgia" of the novelfrom the perspective of space,showing the construction of cultural maps,and the efforts which restore "Shanghai flavor" thought the "sense of place".The third chapter interpret "nostalgia" from the perspective of dialect.In the background of the tradition of Shanghai language novels and crisis of the dialects,we will survey the language strategy and motive of the novel,that is,to use "improved Shanghai language" to preserve Shanghai 's "locality".The "nostalgia" of Fan Huarestores the"Shanghai taste" through the dialect and urban space,and become the strategy to resist the disappearance of the "locality" for the author.