The Historical Reconstruction Of Chinese Local Novels In The 1990s

The establishment of the market economic system in the 1990s caused the great transformation of Chinese society.There was a fierce collision between our traditional rural civilization and modern urban civilization.The natural change of this era also made local novels in the shadow and pressure of marginalization.However,a number of "alternative" local novels which rooted in local life and mixed into history and memory appeared in the literary arena,such as White Deer Plateau,Being Alive,Chronicle of a Blood Merchant,Tender and Determination,Justice and Human Desire,Have the Sun,A Tree Without Wind,A Pair of Shoes,Big Breasts and Wide Hips,The Straw House,Somber Bell,The Soul of the Desert,The Last One Hun,Hometown World Chrysanthemum,Review 1942 and so on.The passion of "rewriting" history reflected the belief in individual freedom and desire for personal liberation in social transition period.It also projected the intellectuals" feelings of our country.In a manner of speaking,the historical narrative of the local novels in the 1990s embodies great functional value of literature.This paper aims to grasp the development trend of the historical narrative of local novels in the 1990s and explore the deep structure it has formed,as well as the values and problems.In this paper,the historical narrative of local novels in the 1990s is divided into the historical narrative of the transcendental local novels and the historical narrative of the experiential local novels.In the direction of a motif,the historical narrative of the transcendental local novels focuses on the dialogue between the perspective of the problem and the reality on the basis of the reflection on the local history.It is the main tendency of the historical narrative of the experiential local novels to reflect the daily local memory with warmth and the aesthetic color of idealistic culture.Besides,the philosophical reflection on the survival and suffering of the Chinese nation is the common characteristic of the two kinds of novels.Therefore,this paper from the circulation of national character criticism,culture aesthetic ideal type regression,the humanistic spirit of philosophical concern three aspects of vernacular novels in the 1990s historical narrative written on the subject of official local history reconstruction and transcendence of similar local novels in the 1980s.In artistic style,the historical narrative transcendental local novels in the 1990s mainly takes on the multiple artistic reference based on realism.While the historical narrative of the experiential local novels is integrated with rich natural scenes and humanistic emotion.The novels contain the spiritual appeal of romanticism.The historical narrative of local novels in the 1990s shows the reflection of the reality,the multiple introspection and construction of the history spontaneously,which marks the writers' calmness and meditation behind noisiness of the times.However,too much enthusiasm for personal narrative experiment also,in some degree,falls to a certain absence of another "masking" of history and historical sense.