National Identity Characteristics Of The Literature And Its Literary Generation

The identity of Chinese ethnic literature is a topic widely talkedabout by academic community in recent years.In which the ethnicidentity is worthy of being studied most.The phenomenon of identity inChinese etunic literature especially contemporary ethnic fictions are richand complicated,which has potential significance for us to study theheterogeneity and regularity of the ethnic literature.But in the past theresearch on this issue is very lack in terms of depth and breadth.In the face of the situation that the academic community disagree tothe concept of “ethnic literature”,to distinguish the general and narrowethnic literature is necessary.This paper focuses mainly on the narrowethnic literature.The identity theory has experienced the developmentalprocess from the essential identity to the constructive identity.Idealidentity has the two types of characteristic,but mainly of the constructiveidentity.National identity bases on the concept of identity,but also has its own characteristic.To introduce the theory of identity and nationalidentity into Chinese contemporary ethnic fictions and ethnic literature isnecessary,rational and important.Many elements of the ethnic literature are involved in theconstruction of ethnic identity,especially the construction by the severalaspects of “literary” such as language,narrative,style and image is themost secret,complicated and valuable.In Chinese contemporary ethnic fictions,the construction bylanguage includes native language writing,non-native writing andbilingual writing;the construction by narrative includes turning to thefirst person plural,multiple perspectives,parallel dialoguestructure,religious and cultural narrative and narrative intervention;theconstruction by style includes lyricism,retelling the myth andepic,writing for showing culture and the stylistic transformation;theconstruction by image not only includes ethnic hero image,folk hero image and ethnic cultural image,but also the several modes posed by myimage and other images:the dialogue mode,the contrast mode,theconflict mode and the mirror mode.The construction bylanguage,narrative,style and image has their specificmachanisms,strategies,causes,significance and limits.According to theresearch on these things,we can be inspired about thelanguage,narrative,style and style of Chinese contemporary ethnicfictions and literature, the theory of identity and national identity.The above study leads us to the discovery of a special nature ofChinese contemporary ethnic fictions and the ethnic literature:“theethnic identity feature”.It is different from the national,cultural oraesthetic feature,but also closely related to them.It has its specificmeanning and is dynamic.The discovery of “the ethnic identity feature”has multiple meanings.There are two major reasons accounting for theformation of the feature.On the one hand,literature is an important means to construct identity and national identity,which offers thepossibility of the formation of the ethnic identity feature and in factgenerates a dominant feature of ethnic identity.On the other hand,theethnic writers try to construct the ethnic identity,which make thepossibility of generating the ethnic identity feature become a reality andin fact generates a dominant and recessive ethnic identity.The latter canbe divided into two cases:spontaneous and conscious construction by theethnic writers.The conscious construction is related with three kinds ofethnic identity crisis:the discourse pressure from the Han culture andliterature;the challenge to the ethnic culture from modernity;the threat ofhomogenization to the ethnic culture from globalization.The ethnic identity feature also shows the cultural characteristics ofChinese contemporary ethnic fictions and the ethnic literature,whichinspires us to explore the necessity,rationality and the multiple valuesand so on of the cultural research on the ethnic literature,for the purpose of the construction of the ethnic literature theory and criticism.