Return And Leaving

As a new writer,Shuang Xuetao has attracted lots of attentions from readers and scholars for his fictions of Northeast,such as The Moses on the Plain.However,he also deliberately refuses some fixed identities given by numerous and complicated discourses,such as the “post-80s” writer,“son of the worker”,“new Northeast writer”.And his new collection of short stories “Hunter”,which shows a different style between his original“Northeast story”,reveals his effort on the change of the writing.In addition,studies on Shuang Xuetao’s works are mostly based on the class-history framework,which may ignore the value of his works on the expression of the existence,the individual spirit and human’s relations and emotions.Therefore,this paper takes Shuang Xuetao’s four published works,“The deaf-mute age”,“The Moses on the Plain”,“The flying dreamer” and “Hunter”,as objects of study to discover more connotations and values of “Northeast story” besides the class-history discourse,and to find the connection between his new “de-Northeast” works and the original “Northeast story”.In the introduction,the transformation of Shuang Xuetao’s works is firstly indicated.Then related research achievements are classified and combed.Finally,shortcomings of existent research are pointed out,and highlights of this paper are stated.The chapter one discusses Shuang Xuetao’s “The deaf-mute age”,which is also the origin of “Northeast story”.Though “The deaf-mute age” is generally regarded as a novel about youth and growth,its poetic narrative integrates personal growth with social history,which contains a lot of profound themes such as incisive social criticism and dialectical thought of growth.Thus,“The deaf-mute age” is not only a story of personal growth,but also an epitome of Chinese social changes in the 1990 s.The chapter two focuses on the meaningful narrative strategy which usually appears in Shuang Xuetao’s “Northeast story”.The narrative strategy used in “Northeast story”constructs the tension between historical experience and present existence.Therefore,Shuang’s “Northeast story” is no longer just the retelling of the experience of “Xia Gang”,but a parable of the relationship between traumatic history and present life.The chapter three analyses Shuang’s newest work “Hunter” from the content,narrative strategy and so on.“Hunter”,which is considered as his “de-Northeast” work,is actually Shuang’s completely new experiment of writing based on his recent life experience.However,stories in this collection still share the same target with Shuang’s “Northeast story”,which means the attention to human’s realistic existence,individual spirit and emotions.Thus,these stories depict the existential sense and confusion of meaning of life that individuals may encounter in a very delicate and superb way.Finally,the conclusion points out that the change in Shuang’s writing called “deNortheast” is his bravely adventure in fiction writing,breaking his original framework.And what he always carries on in his fictions is the concern over human’s existence and individual spirit,as well as the continuous pursuit of art of fiction.