Political Context Of The Literary Imagination

"Root-seeking literature" is an insurmountable and important literature tide or culture phenomenon inthe Chinese contemporary literature history studies. Its occurrence first has broken the only pattern of thesocialism literature which was monopolized by politics a long time ago. This is a significantbreakthrough of the socialism literary arts root on the basis of the national tradition, study and fuseforeign literary arts experience on "writes any", "how writes". But simultaneously we must realize: thebreakthrough of root-seeldng literature doesn't represent the literature parts from politics. It finishessocialism literary arts exploration by writing materials far away from the politics apparently. Thisseparation to a certain extent has sparsely developed writing material scope of the socialism literary arts,which is good to the healthy development of socialism literary arts. This exploration is required andacknowledged by socialism construction and prosperity. After the Great Cultural Revolution, thesocialism literary arts become loosed from the top to bottom, we use the general and specific policies of"the literary arts serving for the people and the literary arts serving for the socialism" instead of the past"the literary arts serving for politics" the literary arts. In the 80's mid and late part, the introduction ofnew idea and the method urges all the spheres of literature creation and the learning study and so on topay great attention to the literature self-determination and literature rules of its own. This change of theresearch emphasis point causes a kind of bias: pay more attention to the literature/culture, the inherentlaw discussion which the literature causes, but neglect the political linguistic environment discussioncaused by the root-seeking literature.On the basis of grasping the 80's literature politics linguistic environments, we discover the newliterature faces the anxiety of "constructing and prospering the socialism with Chinese features" and"walking towards the world" ".It is a basic reason that urges the writers to seek roots. By comparingRoot-seeking with the Western modernist school", we discover the similar destiny of "the Westernmodernist school and Rooting-seeking" in introduction, inheritance and regulation. The regulation of theWestern modernist school is exactly the political background of the root-seeking literature occurrence. Inresearching the relation between root-seeking and Latin American literature, we discover the importantfactor that critics love to talk about it and Latin American literature work ,"Hundred Years of Solitude"almost synchronized with "85 Root-seeldng novel tide" enters China. This leads to" the Latin Americanliterature boistering" and causes the establishment that critical words have effect on root-seeking andLatin American literature.Any literature occurrence should be finished by many kinds of factors together .For the bias ofRoot-seeking literature research and to provide a new angle of view, I seek to discuss the causes ofRoot-seeking literature from the political linguistic environment.According to the above, I take "literature imagination under the political linguistic environment" as mytopic and carry on studies from "returning from the 80's". My analysis is as following: First, as for theinspiration of Pierre Bourdieu about "the field is also a struggle space" and Anderson about the politicaland cultural approval of modern national states, from the macroscopic angle of view to the 80's literaturespace constitution theory's elaboration, I explain two anxieties and the literature arts policies as well asthe political reason, Next, under the inspiration of Michel Foucault's genealogy theory, I restoreRoot-seeking and the Western modernist school to the construction of the Chinese socialism so as to explore and clarify the introduce /the inheritance causes of "the Western modernist school andRoot-seeking" in the early years of 80s in China ,and reveal political linguistic environment ofRoot-seeking literature's occurrence as well as the relation between Root-seeking literature and theconstruction socialism literary arts . Finally, by inspecting and the analyzing the 80's China LatinAmerican literature heat history material, I probe into Root-seeking literature and Latin Americanliterature heat construction political words logic and explain that Root-seeking literature is a literatureimagination under the political linguistic environment, thus clarify some historical suspicion which existsbetween Root-seeking literature and the Latin American literature.From above, we may draw such a conclusion: "Root-seeking" is the writer's literature imaginationunder the political linguistic environment guidance, is the critic to literature imagination caused by thenovel current under the political linguistic environment. Namely, "Root-seeking " is also literatureimagination under a political linguistic environment.