New Opinion On Root-seeking Literature

Root-seeking literature is an important literature genre in 1980s, and its research has been enduring for more than 20 years, not only because it is the start of pursuing the self-conscious in new period literature, but its appearance and circumstance also reflected the society style and mental representation in 1980s. In the view of literature criticism, however, it is still a long lasting topic of literature history.The ideological trend of root-seeking literature is a branch of culture trend at that time, and it has unclear boundary with culture since the beginning, World versus Mainland, Modern versus Tradition, Main stream versus Non-mainstream, and Standard versus Non-standard are always in dispute.In the social atmosphere of seeking culture root, the writers trace back to some kind of original and ancient life and living status, however, the researchers interpret these in the way of enlightenment, criticism, or praise in the view of culture, while neglecting that the description is recall of experience and status in their second homeland in the view of "others".These misreading of root-seeking content and root-seeking writer is built on an urgent social mentality, and it is a kind of research perspective that lack of history integrity. Therefore, this essay abandons the constrains of culture root, and analyzes the ideological background and writers'psychology, additionally, carding and clarifying previous misreading by closing reading, analyzes the hidden trauma that brought to contemporary literature, and attempts to fully and objectively understand root-seeking literature, so as to strive to make a bit of exploration towards contemporary literature.