"Absurd" Narrative Research In Local Novels Since The 1990s

Since the 1990s,especially in the new century,local novels have come into a new development climax in the diverse pattern of literature.Notably,during this period,writers from different generations are interested in telling the strange country stories with an absurd way.Flying Years in Sunlight,Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out,Shou Huo,All Flowers to Open,Jian Ting Ru Shui,A Cherry on A Pomegranate Tree,Brothers,I Am not Madame Bovary,Zha Lie Zhi make the absurd narrative in local novels an important literary phenomenon.From the strategic point of view,absurd art is mainly reflected in narrative perspective,narrative time,narrative space,narrative language and other dimensions.Under the technique,we can discover rich cultural metaphors and find the transformation of the writer's aesthetic psychology.At this time,writers chose to use absurd techniques to explore the important rural history and the current reality because of various literary and non-literary factors,such as rural objective reality,writer's subject matter,folk culture,and foreign literature trends.Compared with the 1980s,the absurd narrative in local novels since the 1990s has transferred in narrating focus,aesthetic style,and spiritual dimensions.The causes of change are also complex.Generally speaking,since the 1990s,the absurd narratives in local novels have made a certain influence on the dimension of literary history and sociological significance.Most writers have constructed an alternative real local country image with absurd ways.These novels also gain tremendous literary publicity by international travel.Of course,they also have inevitable limitations and difficulties.The part of introduction defines the relevant concepts involved in this topic,traces the historical origin of the absurd narrative,clarifies the significance of the topic,sorts out and summarizes the research results related to this topic,and makes it clear that this topic can be deepened and expanded.Finally,we will discuss the contents of the research to be carried briefly.The first chapter analyzes the essential features and narrative strategies of the absurd narrative in local novels since the 1990s.During this period,a number of unique narrative strategies have emerged in narrative perspective,narrative time,narrative space and narrative language,which carry specific social significance and demonstrate value standpoints of writers.Under various absurd techniques,writers are more and more inclined to the performance of personal experience.They want to dispel grand narratives and transfer their enthusiasm to unreliable narratives.All these show the writer's presenting changes in the way they understand the world.Besides,writers reflect their new thoughts on rural history and current reality by this way.The second chapter explores the realistic causes and spiritual sources of the absurd narrative in the local novels since the 1990s.Firstly,transformation of the society and rural changes of country in the 1990s are important objective reality factors.Since the middle and late 1990s,especially in the new century,the realities of rural China have reached an unprecedented level of complexity and absurdity.Realistic methods have often failed to express these contents.But,absurd techniques are likely to reach the core of the countryside.At the same time,the influence of the writer's subject spirit and creating concepts should not be underestimated.In their eyes,there is no difference between absurd and reality sometimes,which have great influences on absurd narrative in rural novels.Different generations of writer's literary creations also lead to differences in absurd style.Besides,folk culture has greatly affected the absurd narrative in the local novels.Since the 1990s.Mo Yan,Jia Pingwa,Yan Lianke,Chen Yingsong and others have absorbed nutrition from the folk culture.Especially,they activated a lot of traditional oriental skills.Of course,most of the writers have modernized the folk culture and opened up another road to contemporary rural writing.In addition,we can't ignore the writers' absorption and transformation of western literary trends of thought.From the 1980s,western modernism and postmodernism have greatly influenced on the author's creative concepts and narrative skills.Now,writers are beginning to combine absurd skills with social reality and macro-history in Chinese countryside.In this transformation process,Latin-American literature plays a catalyst role.The third chapter is based on the reference of 1980s and summarizes the transformation of the absurd narrative in local novels since the 1990s.Generally speaking,there's no lack of absurd narrative in local novels in 1980s,but most of novels are still featured with the traditional realism.In 1990s,the tendency of absurd narrative in local novels became obviously.The transformations of the local novels which are featured with absurd narrative include the following aspects,such as narrating focus,aesthetic style,and spiritual dimensions.After the conclusion of the characters of the absurd narrative in local novels since 1990s,it's time to analysis the reformation of absurd narrative through the study of groups of writers or individual writer.First is the realist writers'consciously transformation.Chen Yingsong,Guan Renshan and Fan Xiaoqing and some other writers cling to the writing of local China.During this time,they are beginning to absorb and attempt absurd narrative skills besides the realism because of the pursuit to the stylistic and aesthetic innovation.Second is the reformation of the avant-garde writers.Yu Hua,Su Tong,Ge Fei,Can Xue have continued the exploration of the absurd narrative skills in local novels since 1990s.Moreover,they come to put more practical contents on the novels and change the narrative attitude.The fourth chapter is the estimation and study of the absurd narrative's value and limit in local novels since the 1990s.For the value of the history of literature,the local novels during this period have a diverse and pluralistic exploration in the absurd narrative,which enriches the art of local novels and expands the category of aesthetic.Also,these novels lead to a possible literary trend that is the realizing and localizing of the absurd narrative.From the point of sociology,the writers reach the truth of China's rural social reality and history with the absurd narrative.Most writers represent their critical position and construct the public space of literature according to these novels.Since the 1990s,people construct a different but real country image with the absurd narrative.This kind of image expresses a strong feeling of cultural metaphor and cultural criticism.Chinese literature has been trying to link with the world's literature.Mo Yan,Yan Lianke,Yu Hua and Li Er all cause a sensation in international literature and won awards.Most of the award-winning works are rural novels with absurd narrative,which represents that absurd narrative local novels are traveling internationally and it can have conversation with the world's literature,along with the establishment of the literary publicity.Of course,there's absence and black holes in absurd narrative local novels because of the poor experiences,over subjectification narrative and question in details since the 1990s.