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On The Children's Narrative In The Cultural Revolution Novels Of The New Era

Posted on:2018-03-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330515989870Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Among all the works of the new era,writers showed great favor to the children's narrative,and the number of novels using the children's narrative are constantly increasing.Cultural Revolution novels narrated by the "children" are different from those of other themes because of discrepancy in various ages,which leads to diverse feelings and thoughts for the children narrators.From the special perspective of children,writers can uncover children's experience in the Cultural Revolution and the world of adults just by simple visions,naive utterance,succinct way of thinking and direct behavior.In the children's narrative novels themed Cultural Revolution,writers not only creatively employ a unique narrative technique but also embody both adults'and children's experience of subsistence.Therefore,authors could objectively introspect the history of Cultural Revolution.The ethic issues of families presented in Cultural Revolution novels narrated by the "children" from the new era is the very beginning of this paper.During the years of Cultural Revolution,children suffered severe plights within family relationships,mainly are father-son relationship,mother-daughter relationship and sibling relationship.These three relationships usually appeared in ways like confrontation,indifference.Since family is the epitome of society,the failure of family relationship will no doubt reflects the sickness of interpersonal relationship in society,it appears mainly in three ways,such as selfish and darkness between adults,violent behaviors among children,and damages and violation from adults to children.The analytic of the deteriorate of social relationships presented in Cultural Revolution novels,is also a thorough exploration of the time reason why this situation occur.Novel is not just a form of literature,it's also the thinking of every writer on life and society using their own way,so every work has its literature,historical and social value.And Cultural Revolution novels narrated by the "children" from the new era are more outstanding in those three aspects.The third and fourth parts of this paper begin with feature and meaning of Cultural Revolution novels narrated by the "children",discuss the text characteristic and aesthetic effect when writers used Children Narrate as method to tell the history of Culture Revolution.This paper discuss the significant meaning of Children Narrate to Culture Revolution memories:to retrospect the history,paying attention to the growth of modern children,caring for children's life.
Keywords/Search Tags:Children's narrative, Cultural Revolution novels, family relationships, social relationships
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