An Analysis Of The Memory Of Educated Youth In Han Shaogong's Novels

The movement of going up the hill and down the countryside is one of the important events that have deeply influenced the founding of new China.“Educated Youth literature”derived form the movement of going to the countryside is an important part of Chinese literature in the new period.The study of “Educated Youth Literature”is helpful to understand the history of educated youth and the life course of generation of educated youth literati,and can reflect the social changes and the development of human civilization.Many outstanding educated youth writers appeared in the new period,and they all had their own unique views on the movement of going up the mountain and down the countryside.As a rational and critical writer in the contemporary Chinese Literary world,the literature of educated youth is not only a reflection of his past life,but also a window for Han Shaogong to see the development of contemporary society and pay attention to the humanistic spirit.This paper will take three aspects of Han Shaogong's educated youth writing content,narrative innovation and literary value as the entry point,comprehensively and deeply explore the constant and change of Han Shaogong's educated youth writing,and reveal the implicit humanistic thinking and realistic care behind Han Shaogong's educated youth writing.The first chapter focuses on the writing content of educated youth's works.As time goes by the change of the writer and the cognitive,Han Shaogong educated youth writing content and the educated youth life as well as the emphasis of the new perspective of the history and writing are also changed,from the early group consciousness,political writing to daily horizon and personal narration,and later we can see that Han Shaogong educated youth writing content change is not only the reflection of history,is also in the ego's perception of history.Chapter two studies the narrative characteristics of Han Shaogong's educated youth writing.At the beginning of the new period,Han Shaogong's educated youth writing basically adopts the linear story writing,using the traditional novel writing method,while the novels after the 1990 s adopt the cross-style writing,the coherent story is not the focus of Han Shaogong's novels.This change of narrative mode is not only the stylistic innovation hotly discussed by scholars,but also the transformation of Han Shaogong's way of thinking and his world view,and a new way out pointed out by Han Shaogong for the contemporary literary world.The third chapter investigates the profound and meaningful cultural value behind Han Shaogong's educated youth writing.On the onehand,Han Shaogong's educated youth writing makes the literature of educated youth inherit and develop,on the other hand,Han Shaogong can also have new changes when he inherits,which is the transformation and innovation of educated youth literature and has a unique significance.It is of contemporary significance to implant history into the novel.Han Shaogong not only constructs and reshapes the collective memory of educated youth,but also shows his concern for the development of contemporary society and the state of humanistic spirit.The experience of educated youth is the cornerstone of Han Shaogong's writing from the beginning to the present,Han Shaogong's writing of educated youth is unique,it provides a way for the re-writing of educated youth literature,but also provides a new thinking paradigm for how to write memory and history.