Preliminary Study On Bottom Narration In The New Century

If there is any creation that can be called literary trend in the first decade in the new century,then it must be "bottom narration" creation.Based on theoretical argument and close reading,the paper attempts to investigate the concept,creation practice,significance and dilemma of bottom narration in the new century comprehensively.In the first place,the concept of "bottom narration" will be reviewed from the origin,narration target,writing subject and aesthetic characteristics.The bottom narration emerges with the discussion of There in the literary world in 2004.It takes the grassroot class that is cast out of the Chinese modern trend as the narration target,and the writing subject includes grassroot class themselves and the intellectuals.The major works describe the living statement and the life,emotional,spiritual experience of grassroot class in late reform opening up.They reflect the historical picture of class differentiation and have distinctive realistic criticism inclination and reflection characteristic.Afterwards,the creation features for the bottom literature in the new century are described from three dimensions of misery narration,"degradation" narration and tender narration.The misery narration writes about the suffering body and the homeless spirit.The expropriation and even destruction of the body under the logic of capitalism indicates the deprivation of the right to subsistence.The "experience of the other" in the city and the embarrassing "homeless" situation reveal the adrift dilemma.In the extremity of suffering,the bottom narration acquires the dynamic mechanism aesthetically.“Degradation”narration describes the fall of village,the anomie behaviors of grassroot class,the corruption of power,the gossip politics and the money principle,which have permitted in the village and make the grassroot class a silent majority.To express their demand through the behaviors out of social norm is the retaliatory protest from the bottom level to the social unfairness.The"degradation" process of the grassroot class reveals the paradox ending of the"weak becomes weaker".The tender narration describes the revolt of the grassroot class in the desperation and the warmth in the struggle.The revolt characters in the bottom narration in the new century demonstrates its impulse to search for the new comers and the new world,while the tender narration constructs the individual ethics of grassroot people in a more comprehensive significance.The revolt and the tender in the bottom narration render it the glamour of idealism.At last,the significance and dilemma of the bottom narration is reviewed and its development prospect is explored.Bottom narration is the literary exploration of the sensitivity in the reform and opening up,which is also the literary echo of the humanist ideology for grassroot level,thus it carries the serious topic of the writing ethics in the new times.The revive of the realistic literary spirit and the recovery of the publicity in the literature also contain the internal reflection of literature.Facing the theoretical criticism of the academic filed,the bottom narration should balance the relationship between moral standing and the art value well,be vigilant about the over-emphasizing on the subject and constructs bottom-level experience aesthetically.Also,they should take careful consideration about its relationship with left-wing literary tradition and avoid falling into the trap of ideology.Facing the creation bottleneck,the shortcomings of dispelling the power of reality and the lack of reflection of the overall ecology of society with the "narrative" contingency should be overcome,together with the weakness of the underlying experience and weakening in ideological power,and proceed solidly along the path of realism.