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Loss In Native Land And Anxiety Of Modernity

Posted on:2018-08-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S S WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330539985042Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Local land has faced severe crisis in the course of development of modernity since the new century.Under the background of local lost,"nostalgia" has gradually become the intrinsic motivation of literary narration.Rural writers have focused on describing the traditional fracture and the resolution of truth,which generally presents a strong nostalgic consciousness,and its essence is a kind of lost emotions to rural land and anxiety of modernity.The most direct expression of "Nostalgia" is a description of China traditional civilized disruption.From the rural physical forms to the variation of spiritual culture's construction,nostalgia presents traditional ruptured pain in the new century.Specifically,the collapse of the local physical form is mainly represented to express nostalgia by three kinds of changes.One is gathering in one village that changes to combine several villages to live.Another is depending on framing that changes to desert homeland to make a living.The other is living in the landscape and idyll that changes to ecological pollution.And the structural variation of local spirit is emerged to show spirit crisis by the change of Confucian homeland and the crisis of ethics and morality.The passing of cultural homeland is mainly expressed nostalgia by writing rural people's absence,folk culture's loss,and rural culture's failure.In order to protect our traditions and homeland,rural writers eager to reflect again the way of local civilization and the meaning of spiritual culture.The further meaning of "nostalgia" represents the digestion of anxiety in human's authenticity.Writers show their living weightlessness through writing the fall of the local people's body,the emotional depression and the helpless soul of the alien state life.The fall of their body shows that local people bear a heavy burden and degradation of their daily life.The emotional depression comes from the absence of a family and the rejection form cities;their soul has no sense of belonging that indicates self-identify crisis of the new generation of migrant workers and the meaningless of the country female's life.Rural writers from the real people to focus on rural people's real life state under the situation of local loss,and they are also eager for rural people returning,and natural life forms of sane people.The aesthetic construction of nostalgic narration highlights the images' construction,the regional culture and dialect.Through constructing some images,(like “nature”,"animal","house" and so on)emphasizing regionalism as well as the dialect characteristics to realize the return of rural daily life and the rediscovery of rural spirit.The image of "nature" mainly concentrates on building the "land","moon" and "river";the image of "animal" mainly concentrated on building the "wolf" and "dog";and the image of "house" mainly presents two kinds of features that one is shabby and declined,another is tall and brand-new.Through describing the regional land and dialect,rural writers reconstruct and return the local land to explore the value and the meaning of rural existence.
Keywords/Search Tags:new century, Local literature, Nostalgia narration, Spiritual homeland
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