Dean Urban Writing Studies

Since publishing her works in 2002,Di An has made outstanding achievements in the field of novels,and gradually formed her own unique creative style,which has won double recognition from the literary world and the market,and has become new star in contemporary literature that has attracted much attention from the literary world and the market.The formation of creative style is not only closely related to the congenital life form of the writer,but also cannot be separated from the influence of social environment and personal experience.This article starts from Di An's unique growing environment and growing experience,and uses city writing as the starting point.By analyzing the content.ideological connotation and writing form of Di An's city writing,the article grasps the characteristics of Di An's city writing as whole,and explores its contribution and limitation to city writing.This article is divided into five parts.The introduction briefly explains the reason for choosing this topic and the research status,methods and significance of the research.Chapter 1 explores the origins of Di An's city writing through writers' prose and creative talk and other materials,Taiyuan,the hometown of Di An,left deep impression on the ecological and human environment.Therefore,after taking the creative path,Di An can't help writing about the difficulties that northern inland industrial city and the people living in it in the process of city modernization.After adulthood,Di An settling in Beijing,eight years of life experience in Beijing gave her deeper understanding of the central city,which gave birth to her creative inspiration.At the same time,the rich family history and the sociology majors studied during the study abroad also intangibly cultivated the unique thinking of Di An's city writing,and endowed her city writing with strong humanistic feelings and realistic consciousness.Chapter 2 mainly analyzes the series of "Dragon City" by Di An.In the process of writing Dragon City,an inland industrial city in the north,Di An strongly emphasized the "urban disease" of the city in the process of modernization.On the one hand,the city's ecological environment has deteriorated sharply,and its historical culture has gradually lost;on the other hand,urban individuals have also become ill at the physical and mental levels.At the physical level,leukemia raging everywhere seriously threatens the survival of urban individuals;at the spiritual level,the younger generation at the upper level of the city is full of fantasy about the metropolis and is eager to escape from Dragon City.However,the working class and its next generation,who are at the bottom of the society and have contributed the most to the development of the city,have been despised by the upper levels of the city and lived a life of distress and dignity.Chapter 3 mainly analyzes Di An's Beijing writing.In the recent book "Jingheng Street" and the novella "I have met someone kinder than me",Di An turned her creative focus to the central city of Beijing.In the "illusion" of the central city of Beijing,Di An explores the classic literary proposition of alienation of modern cities and people by writing the pursuit and disillusionment of spiritual desires such as ideals and love for the "post-80s" generation.Chapter 4 mainly analyzes the significance and shortcomings of Di An's city writing by combining Di An's "Dragon City" series works and'"Jingheng Street"and the novella "I have met someone kinder than me".In the process of city writing,under the guidance of the creative idea of "city nostalgia",Di An started from her own urban life experience and surpassed the materialization tendency in city writing.With strong sense of reality and humanistic care,she wrote the unique "urban disease" of contemporary industrial cities and the alienation of the central city to the younger generation,which further promoted the development of urban literature.At the same time,by examining the survival dilemma of urban individuals,Di An made reflection on the development of urban modernization.However,the implementation of the "city nostalgia" creative idea in some works still needs to be further deepened.The type tendency and the over-reliance on the coincidence of plot setting in the character image also make Di An's city writing have some regret.