Reminiscent Narration And The New Period Novels

The special historical context of literature in the new period which always madethe writers to reflect on history and construct of self with a retrospective view,"reminiscence" as the existence of individual life experience became the literarynarrative strategy, its aesthetic value in the new period also received great attentionand identification. This paper through three aspects mainly about reminiscence andhistory, reminiscence and self, reminiscence and existence to analyze and comb thenew period novels, at the same time, discuss the narrative strategies and themeconnotation of the reminiscent narration, discuss the aesthetic characteristics about thereminiscent text in different stages of the new period。The first part of this paper for reminiscence and history, mainly usingthe“collective memory” theory of Maurice Halbwachs, to analyze the memory of"cultural revolution", this part classify the novels according narrative theme about thecollective memory of "cultural revolution": first for the "scar" narration, mainly towrite history of traumatic memories."Cultural revolution" brought the scar tohistorical eyewitness it is difficult to heal, as traumatic collective memory, people stillreflect on history after complete the complaint and criticism. The part about the "scar"narrative, is not limited to the "scar literature", many writers in the new period hasdifferent expression for this period of history memory, in this paper, the "scar" ismore of a heart trauma, the "scar" still be inherit and continue after history lost,"cultural revolution" has become a collective memory can’t be forget; The second forthe "special" narration, which is unique individual memories and different from thetraumatic collective memory. Maurice Halbwachs think individual memory as part ofcollective memory, this part mainly discuss the unique and individual memory of thehistory of the "cultural revolution", although the memory is still as part of thecollective memory, but as special expression,they are different from the traditionalnarration, such as Wang Xiaobo, Ye Zhaoyan narrates the historical memoryabsurdly, Wang Shuo cherish the memory of special age is all not be restricted by thetraditional authority of the writer’s subject consciousness consciously; The third is"routine" narration, it is the historical memory of the day-to-day expression and more close to the real historical memory. This part mainly to analyze the reminiscent novelsthat subvert the traditional grand historical narration, restore the miscellaneous dailylife, and using the people life for create material. this kind of novels abandoned thegrand historical construction, and the daily life of the common people in "culturalrevolution" period as the point of reveal historical memory, on the one hand, the folknarration of the daily life can shorten the distance between literature and the public,and on the other hand, restore the real memory of the history.The second part of this paper for reminiscence and self, this part mainly discussthe writers how to complete the self-salvation and self construction by means ofreminiscence in the new period, this part is mainly divided into three parts: first, toconstruct self by reminiscence, and depict childhood experiences by youngperspective. Childhood as a critical period of human self-understanding and selfconstruction, has important influence on people’s life, the special historical periodbring the writers of the new period with special childhood experience. This partmainly using the theory of creative psychology to research the reminiscent novels ofthe author group who born in the sixties (including the end of fifties), because theyspent a different childhood in the "cultural revolution", they always look back, andcomplete the self-reconstruction and self-salvation by recall their childhood; Second,communication in the past with reminiscence, and in the distant age and familymemory to look for the affiliation of themself. writing for the age and familymemories is a unique scenery in the new period literature, many writers who find theirroots in order to achieve self reconstruction by family and ancestors recall in the newperiod. At the same time, the reminiscence of age and family also dig the nationalculture ethos and recover the national historical memory which is graduallydisappearing; Third, redeemed soul by reminiscence, mainly discuss the writerssalvage love and beauty through the past memory in the new period. Although thescar of special history left is difficult to heal for writers, many writers did not feelself-pity, however, they are found the beauty in the past memories, and with thepower of love to influence people and purify the soul, with a tolerant heart to treathistory, and by wirting the true,good and beautiful to save people and self redemption.The third part of this paper for reminiscence and existence, mainly discuss the memory traits of "pioneer" writer, which always express deconstruction and thevariation of time to complete the reflections on history and existence. First, this papermainly discuss the time narrative revolution of writers in the new period, broken timeand cycle time of narrative mode that were praised by the writers. Latin Americanliterature brought huge influence for the new period writers, for reference of gabrielGarcia marquez, borges and the predicament of literature in the late1980’s made"pioneer writers" subvert the traditional linear time mode, to complete the change ofnovel form by disorderly and cracked fragment of time in the new period; Second, thereal and nothingness of existence is a common theme among the writers, this partmainly discuss how the writers express real and nothingness in the reminiscence. As acarrier of the memories, time was endowed with infinite power by the"pioneer"writers, writers use the individual perceptual experience,such as memories, feelings,fantasies as the breakthrough point of literary narration, and made the confusedexistence of individual life and reflection of history existence as the narrative theme,created one by one, real and nothingness existence world with memories; Third,analyze the writer’s unique creative memories in the new period, the authors has theirown unique understanding and expression in the form of "memory"."Pioneer writers"stepped on the footprint of Ma Yuan, has injected new living power for change in theform of literature in the new period, the narrative mode of memory was cherished bythe writers. however, For "memory", the “pioneer writer” with a variety of forms,these creative expression have enriched literature and showed the understanding andreflection of the writers.