Counter The West-several Narrative Modes For The Stories Of Modernity In 1980s' Literature

In this paper's elaboration,"the West"means not only an object with respect to the"East"and its culture and civilization, but also an internal and rather dominant factor during the age when China and the world existed since the 19th century. This thesis takes some literary works'modern stories as the main research object under the historical circumstance of collision between China and the West in 1980s. I select the overseas ( mainly in western countries) travel literature, the novels of Wang Meng, Zhang Xianliang, Gao Xiaosheng and so on; partial works of "Roots" Literature such as works of Han Shaogong, Wang Anyi; and River Elegy, Chen Danyan's Slow Ship Goes to China as the main case to discuss narrative modes of Chinese modern stories from the different angles under the frame of reference of the west in 1980s', the disposition and conformity of different narrative resources, camouflage and highlights; various possibilities of modern stories narration, as well as the dynamic relation of these different narrative factors. Reviewing of the modes of modern stories narration in the 1980s is not absolutely to deny the value of the"modern"or attempt to discover the purely"Chinese"modern story, but expects it can bring some enlightenment to the present literature's symptoms through the process of hackling and discussion toward how to deal with kinds of traditions and resources, and the realities.The first chapter takes the western travel notes from the late 1970s to the early 1980s' as the object, and makes a simple summary of them, and carries out a core question of this thesis, that is to say, Chinese writers'geographical peregrination toward West, and then the western world image by way of"see and describe", and establish a basic issue: the Third World, which once we considered as another"other"being used to identify subjectivity, is out of vision. The second chapter mainly discusses after the Western sphere appear within the scope of our literature narration, how the contemporary authors tell a story with the west being at present, how they take the West as the frame of reference, how to imagine and identify the future space of china. This chapter I take several influential novelists for example-Wang Meng, Zhang Xianliang, Gao Xiaosheng and so on, to rearrange future image of Chinese"self". Third chapter discusses what kind of culture and political space we need besides the material modernization.The fourth chapter respectively takes the River Elegy and Slow Ship Goes to China as the analysis object explaining the"departure"of the 1980s from the 1990s, which is different from"China"story in the 1980s, and this way of analysis is the main issue that we should reflect when we are telling Chinese modern stories.