A Study Of Bottom-Class Narration Of Literature In The Last Two Decades

As a new literary trend,'Bottom-class Narration'emerges with the rapid transformation of China's society, and reaches its climax at the turn of the century. The narrative subject of'Bottom-class Narration' includes both professional and amateur writers, who either formulate on behalf of perspective of'other'or proceed to self-expression through their perceptions about life.Presently, sufferings and alienation are principal themes of'Bottom-class Narration'.Centerins around these two themes, writers radically get involved into the society, critically confront hardness of reality in social transformation period, meticulously and objectively depict all kinds of sufferings of the poor in city and rural remainders, which are within narration of suffering but beyond all sufferings, speculating destiny and future of life in bottom of the society through creating vivid and typical characters, attempting to eliminate sufferings through the medium of narration of suffering. Meanwhile, as one part of discourse of modernity,'Bottom-class Narration'has made its sound of the rethinking of China's modernization proceeding, attempt to deeply rethink the collapse of bottom class ethic during modernization proceeding, profoundly torturing vicious expansion of instrumental rationality which has produced loneliness and anxiety in spiritual and alienated human nature of the life in bottom of society.'Bottom-class Narration' represents its human concerns on exploring spirits within the reality and rethinking of intellectuals and subjectivity of pursuing justice and equality which were reflected from narration of sufferings. With its particular narrative of suffering,'Bottom-class Narration' has echoed the literary tradition of'for life'and 'concern for life in the bottom of society',which had given shape since New Cultural Movement of May Fourth. Although'Bottom-class Narration' has made its great achievements, still there're lots of work to be further advanced in aspects of conception and artistry of literature.In this field, until now far-reaching literary work hasn't been created yet. The accomplishment of'Bottom-class Narration'is expected to be proved in future.