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On The Homecoming Narrative Of Intellectuals In Jia Pingwa's Novels

Posted on:2021-03-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2415330620470393Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Jia Pingwa always pays attention to his hometown of Shangzhou and his living city of Xi'an,and uses Shangzhou and Xi'an as literary creation bases to realize the dialogue with the modernization and development of contemporary China.The "Intellectual Return to Home" narrative is the product of Chinese intellectuals' modernity anxiety,and it is the discourse practice of the choice between the traditional and modern values that the writer represents in urban and rural areas.The narrative of intellectuals returning to their hometown in Jia Pingwa's novels represents the urban survival spiritual dilemma of peasant intellectuals in the context of social transformation,and the multi-dimensional reality perception presented in rural changes.It is difficult to integrate into the rural dilemma due to identity conversion.And the dilemma of the dilemma in the choice and behavior of returning home.Therefore,the returning narrative of intellectuals is the key entry point to understand Jia Pingwa's creative intention and mental anxiety.First,this thesis analyzes the behavioral motivation of intellectuals returning to their hometowns in Jia Pingwa's novels.According to the characteristics of behavioral motivation,it is divided into four forms,and in-depth analysis of representative behavioral motivations is achieved by travelling to return to the country due to the pursuit of the roots of the country,and to resist the return to the country due to the adherence to the civilian position.Realize the customs to return to the hometown,and realize the self-rescue return to the homeland by seeking the passion of life.Secondly,further analyze the actual perception of intellectuals returning to their hometowns.The flowing time and changing villages are factors that cannot be ignored.The epigenetics realized the natural and primitive nature of Shangzhou's ethnic customs.Jin Gou realized the hardships and heavy burdens of rural transformation.Xia Feng reluctantly watched the withered and decaying traditional village,Ziming pondered the existence puzzlement in the imbalanced relationship between man and nature.From a historical perspective,returning intellectuals are witnesses and meditators of China's rural changes.Then,the intellectuals have been in a "lost to go" mental loss in returning home.This is due to their identity dilemma,that is,the identification anxiety of intellectual identity and innate peasant identity.Intellectuals have anxiety about their identity in the city and others.They are still "country people" in the city,but they become "urban people" in the countryside.Intellectuals have a peasant background,and their hometown is like a mirror.The peasant nature of their unceasing concealment and transformation;returning to their hometown,intellectuals are different from previous peasant identities,and have the attitude of "glorious return to their hometown",forming a "overlook" of the entire rural society in the subconscious;the hometown belongs to survival People there are returning intellectuals who are "others" who are not recognized by their natives.Hometown has long been a symbolic existence,destined to carry on the fate of Lu Xun's "passer".Finally,we focus on the intellectuals 'choice of returning home and the practice of returning home.Intellectuals move between urban and rural areas,proving the embarrassing state of intellectuals entering and withdrawing,revealing the spirit that they can't survive in urban and rural areas.contradiction.Entering the city is the premise of returning to the country.In the choice between entering the city and returning to the country,historical rationality and rural emotions split the intellectual world of the intellectuals,unable to solve the confusion of the pursuit of the value of life and spiritual loss.The struggle between complexes is entangled in the paradox of life needs and living environment.Therefore,intellectuals have been in a spiritual contradiction and have dilemmas,recurring.The narrative of intellectual return in Jia Pingwa's novels symbolizes the humanistic care of Jia Pingwa's self-existence experience to the opposite reality of ancient cities and countryside.We deeply feel that the writer is chasing the spiritual homeland in his return home,but his homeland is always on the road.The psychological characteristics shared by a generation of peasant intellectuals are also unique to individual spiritual reflection.
Keywords/Search Tags:Jia Pingwa, Intellectuals, Returning, Identity, Spiritual conflict
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