On The Modernity Anxiety In Moshang(The Countryside)

For the past few years,Fu Xiuying,the female writer who was born on the 1970 s,with her “Fangcun Village Narration”,has drawn great attention from the literary world.Like many renowned writers,Fu Xiuying has selected the base area for her literary creation since she first set foot into the field.She is devoted to telling the story of Fangcun village,which was first depicted in her long novel Moshang(The Countryside)published in 2016.Fangcun village is a representation of thousands of villages in the North China Plain,and is an epitome of China’s countryside in the current historical background.Taking a sharp point of view,Fu Xiuying reveals the countryside’s anxiety from being besieged by modernity.She also brings a fresh aesthetic feeling to the readers with her “intelligent creation”.To refute the rising theory that local literature is disappearing,Fu Xiuying carried forward the banner of local literature in a brand new gesture.The critics speak highly of Fu Xiuying’s creation.There have been some studies on the modernity and modernity anxiety presented in Moshang,but they all remain at the surface level.In this paper,the author tries to make a more comprehensive and deep analysis on the modernity anxiety in Moshang,discuss how to connect local literature with the current social background,so as to provide some references for literary creation,and to introduce a new way of thinking about “the modernity of local literature”.In Moshang,Fu Xiuying shows her concern about how modernity is destroying the countryside and challenging the rural ethics.Furthermore,she leads the readers to think about the distortion of humanity and the deep-rooted flaws in China’s national character.In the first chapter of this paper,the author analyzes the countryside’s modernity anxiety in Fu Xiuying’s work from the following points of view: losing their home,crisis of their ethnics,distortion of humanity,and the deep-rooted flaws in China’s national character.In the second chapter,the author interprets the methods employed by Fu Xiuying to write about the countryside’s modernity anxiety,and the unique artistic characteristics of Moshang-the collective protagonist,the drop-around writing technique,great length of psychological descriptions,classical beauty,particular colors and sounds.In the third chapter,the author summarizes the importance and deficiency of Moshang,points out that Moshang is a modern heritage of local literature,and puts forward a new theory that Fu Xiuying has created a new writing method of “poetic irony”.After interpreting the modernity anxiety in Moshang,we can come to the following conclusions: Fu Xiuying carried forward the banner of local literature in a brand new gesture,with her concern about the modernity anxiety in China’s countryside,and her creation of the “poetic irony” local literature writing method,she made a helpful attempt in determining local literature’s future development,and proved that local literature is full of vitality.During a time of social transformation,there are a various of issues need our attention,and could become writing materials for authors,such as: how should China develop its countryside;what does the future offer the peasants;the issue of left-behind children and empty-nest elderly;migrant workers issue;the issue of peasants’ psychological health and law awareness.In this respect,the era of new local literature has just begun.Local literature will present itself in more and different forms instead of disappearing.