The Treatise On Hong Kong's Modernistic Novels

Hong Kong's modernistic novels were born and nourished in a unique political environment and cultural background, and on a specific geographical location. The novels naturally reflect a merger of Eastern and Western philosophy and art.Chapter I of this Paper (or Introductory Remark) devotes to analyze the social factors and ideological timing in Hong Kong. It gives a detailed in-depth review of the basic features of the novels' growth, from childhood, through youth, to adulthood, and of their identity, position in the world of literature, and the principles that local modernists observe.Chapter II describes the novels' textual structure and artistic style as distinguishable from those of traditional works. While local novels free themselves from Western modernistic restrictions, they tend to come out with a pan-modemistic appearance or impart one certain modernistic aspect.Chapter III shows the many faces and options of novel stories. The novels dramatize urban events to create, symbolically or metaphorically, incidents of city-dwellers' relationship, or rather to rebel against this trend. Local novelists perceive urban encounters from different angles, then emphasize the variety and complexity, and present them in a single incident or as simultaneous happenings. Urban life may also be recollected as a cozy memory of the past, so as to cherish a desire to return to start a new life in the city, aggressively or conservatively.Chapter IV lists the major artistic styles and themes of the novels. Modernistic novels combine visualization and concealed suggestions; conjecture and mystery, manifestation and sporadic ideology; and harmonious dialogue and complaining outcry.Chapter V discusses the merger of Chinese spirit with colorful Western expressions. The novels borrow methods and techniques from Western modernism, yet strive to invent their own style of presentation. Western flesh is incarnated on a local realistic backbone body. The novelists try to make East-West cultures talk to each other.Chapter VI (or Conclusive Remarks) summarizes the timeless evolution, continuous adjustment, and constant development of Hong Kong's modernistic novels under the influence of humanity globalization, and conducts a research on the major ideological initiatives, direction of movement, as well as the prime features of improvement dynamics.