Analysis On Town Narrative Based On A Yi’s Novels

A Yi,as a contemporary writer with a strong sense of mission and social responsibility,describes the changes of small towns from the early stage of urbanization under the Reform and Opening-up policy till now in a unique way.Meanwhile,“small town”,the narrative carrier of A Yi,is endowed with significant cultural connotations.The essay focuses on studying how A Yi opened his perspectives as well as how he views and deals with his indiscernible but gradually distant relationship between himself and the “small town” in the process of his narration on the material and spiritual “guard” and “immutability” of the “small town”.Thus,the essay summarizes A Yi’s aesthetic features of his narrative on “small town”,defines A Yi’s position in the Chinese Contemporary Literature,recognizes his unique value,and attempts to dig his significance in the representation of China’s Modernization Process.In this essay,the introduction defines the concept of “small town” and “town narrative” and combs in detail the current research actuality of A Yi’s novels and the writing of small towns by the generation after the 1970 s.And on the basis,the writer put forwards some thoughts on the questions and solutions regarding town narrative in A Yi’s novels.In Chapter One,the writer focuses on digging the historical background of A Yi’s town narrative stories.Tracing back to the period before and after the Reform and Opening-up and combining A Yi’s growing experience under the historical background at that time,the writer focuses on the characteristics of the small towns in A Yi’s writings--narrowness,regime system,left-behind customs,the contradictions formed by the continuous conflicts between the “new” and the “old”,thus displaying that though small towns,as a product of the combination of both rural civilization and urban civilization under the social background of urbanization,has certain positive significance,it also reveals a sense of paleness and powerlessness behind the conflict.In Chapter Two,the writer focuses on the group portrait in the small town,thus displaying the current living situation of the towns in A Yi’s writings.By analyzing the miserable life of residents in small towns and the metaphor for life behind it through disease and death in A Yi’s writings,the implicit attitude of A Yi in the text and his transcendence of life tragedy has come to light.Chapter Three focuses on the detailed analysis of the narrative strategies in A Yi’s town narratives and a discovery of its practical significance.From the perspective of narrative strategy,the writer explores how A Yi presents the living environment of people in small towns through his personal experience in his writings,as well as his hidden care and reflection on small towns and their internal group portrait from the perspective of Ai Guozhu.Besides,the writer also digs deeper into how the writer observes and examines himself in the process of describing small towns and their group portraits.The writer also pays attention to the perfect consistency of A Yi’s concise language style and poetic narrative throughout his town novels.Combing the perception of time,the writer discovers the experience of timing in A Yi’s town narrative,thus providing a brand new cognitive perspective on reflecting the current issues of the development of small towns and the town residents.