A Study Of Historical Memory In The Novels Of "The Three Musketeers Of Tiexi"

In the 1990 s,China ushered in the first round of restructuring of state-owned enterprises with the goal to establish a modern enterprise system.As a result,laid-off workers were ignored by the current social discourse,and they were overshadowed by the mainstream discourse as the bearers of the reform pains.As the old industrial base of the planned economy,Northeast China has borne the brunt of the reform,and its image and meaning have been culturally reconstructed in the reform in a contemporary way.Shuang Xuetao,Ban Yu,and Zheng Zhi are known as the “The Three Musketeers of Tiexi” because of their similar growth environment,similar aesthetic forms and strong historical consciousness,and they focus on the lost spiritual world and indestructible self-esteem of individuals amid historical changes.The study of the “The Three Musketeers of Tiexi” Studying the appearance of the“The Three Musketeers of Tiexi”as an event in contemporary literature and their creative significance can enrich the research space of contemporary literature,and extract from it the complex relationship between the past,present,and future,providing a new aesthetic paradigm for solving real-life problems.Taking the historical memory of the “The Three Musketeers of Tiexi” as the entry point,the thesis is divided into four chapters:Chapter1 takes the restructuring of state-owned enterprises in the 1990 s as the background and studies the traumatic experience of the “layoff wave” in the works of the “The Three Musketeers of Tiexi”under this background.The first chapter examines the traumatic experience of the“layoff wave” in the works of the “The Three Musketeers of Tiexi” against the background of the restructuring of state-owned enterprises in the 1990 s.Taking the phenomenon of workers’ dissonance in the “layoff wave”as the main subject of the study,we analyze the causes of this phenomenon and its narrative forms in literary texts,film narratives,and political discourse,as well as the deeper cause of the crisis of representation: the crisis of belief.Chapter 2 explores the existential experience and spiritual dilemmas of individuals amid historical change,taking the direct experiencers of history-human beings-as the main subjects.The study examines the individual fate and intergenerational memory transmission in the novels of the "Three Musketeers of Tiexi",the legitimization of the historical perspective of the "sub-generation",and the formation of collective memory and its influence on individual identity in the changing social framework.The third chapter takes the symbols of historical memory as the object of study and explores how the existence of historical memory is grasped through the symbolic meaning of spatial places as the material existence for analyzing historical memory.Spatial places as places carrying individual and collective memories are often associated with some typical imagery and become indispensable for analyzing historical memories.The once productive space is presented in public view as a ruin,and the space of existence has been stagnant since the moment of historical change.Chapter 4 discusses how the "Three Musketeers of Tiexi" reconstruct the memories belonging to individual experiences and achieve the purpose of recreating the organic society of the past.Through literary fiction,personal experiences are integrated into the creation of the text,transforming local history into a universal fable,building a bridge between the past and the present,and continuing the fractured history.Ultimately,through the reconstruction of beliefs,memory and breaking through localities and hierarchies are part of public memory.