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Nation And Beyond The Nation Of Mo Yan

Posted on:2007-01-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F Q SuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360182997572Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the developing process of Chinese contemporary literature ofnearly 20 years, Moyan is an important author. His artistic success hassomething to do his native place and his unique narration. This is hisartistic choice of literary nationality in the context of globalization.Actually, literary nationality is one of the literary basic attributes,Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol——author and Visarion Grigorievich Belinski——literature theoretician of Russia,had expounded about this "Literarynationality" theory in mid-19th century. In the developing process ofChinese literature of the 20th century, it is a very importantconversational theme too. Especially now, the national literature is beinginfluenced positively as well as negatively by globalization. We have toresist the strong colonizing tendency in literature and culture, andstrengthen our nationality of literature. So in the context of globalization, nationality of literature is ahistorical problem, but that is a new statement in the present historicaldiscourse circumstances. Moyan is this new statement of a successfulChinese national author. His works are well received and translated intoany languages. Therefore, he is not only a Chinese author, but also a famousauthor in the world. This thesis mainly describes the artistic charm of Moyan's works,explaining the works from the visual angle of literary nationality. Themepart, the restriction of his homeland, is lighted for inspiration, itexplains tragedy of the both sexes in his works, and then tries to exploreMoyan based on his native country and shows life in a unique narrationway. This is how to excavate the potential creative resources of a nation——folk narration: first, it displays the choice of the folk writingposition, and then having established his folk narration visual anglewhich consists of children's narrative visual angle, legendary narrativevisual angle, many parts narrative visual angle and stereoscopic narrativevisual angle. Secondly, concerning folk narration, Moyan has approved thefolk society's global view and Philosophy of life by their differentaesthetic spirit. He has created a "Realm of literature" for us, whichis established in the "Gaomi country northeast countryside" but notconfined to it. For this reason, we can say that Moyan is not only anationality author, but also is author transcending nations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Moyan, nation, transcending nation
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