A Study Of Duanmu Hongliang’s Fiction Writing During The Anti-Japanese War

Duanmu Hongliang’s fiction writing during the war period focused on the national reality and was concerned about the fate of the nation,depicting the picture of the Chinese nation’s resistance to war through Guanzhou and Guannai,and exploring the path of cultural salvation in depth.Taking the fourteen-year war as a whole as the perspective of research,the paper analyzes the different characteristics of Duanmu Hongliang’s fiction writing in the stages of writing outside and inside Guanzhou,and the specific connotation of cultural salvation,and explores the development and overall appearance of his fiction writing,which can reveal the aesthetic innovation of Duanmu Hongliang’s fiction writing and his contribution to the war resistance literature.The thesis is organized in seven parts:The introduction explains the reason for choosing the topic of the dissertation.Duanmu Hongliang’s novels have the commonality of speaking about national suffering and glorifying the anti-Japanese struggle,but also the unique individuality of switching from writing outside Guanzhou to writing inside Guanzhou and connoting the vision of cultural salvation.We will explore Duanmu Hongliang’s anti-war works and examine the values and meanings of his novels as a whole.The first chapter explores the transformation of Duanmu Hongliang’s novel creation.His fictional creation has undergone a phased transition from writing outside Guanzhou to writing inside Guanzhou.The period of transition was before and after the outbreak of the war,and the route of transition coincided highly with the writer’s exile journey,which eventually made the novel show the characteristics of weakening the color of Guanzhou and highlighting the national discourse.The second chapter analyzes the connotations of Tuan Mu Hongliang’s novel in the stage of writing about Guanzhou.The writer develops a national tragedy narrative around Guanwai and contemplates the survival of the Chinese nation.On the one hand,through depicting the "sons of the times" and the "sons of the earth," he preserves the memory of the national war in Guanwai and considers the proposition of the relationship between the land and the peasants,thus incorporating Guanwai into the writing of the fate of the Chinese nation and displaying an epic spirit.On the other hand,with vitality as the core pursuit of the image of the Chinese nation,the two images of wild life as an anti-invasion resource and bandit life with great vitality are created.The third chapter discusses the continuation and transmutation of Tuan Mu Hongliang’s novel after it entered the stage of writing about Guan’in.The "continuity" lies in maintaining the depiction of the "terroir",examining the national resistance in general,describing the natural landscape as a symbol of national history and national spirit,and portraying the sacred and ordinary heroes.The "transformation" lies in the use of a more subtle satirical style,examining the survival of the people in the Great Rear,and writing about the struggle of the marginal intellectuals and the corruption of the upper-class groups.Chapter 4 explores the path of cultural salvation in Duanmu Hongliang’s novels written outside and inside Guanzhou.The writer digs deep into the Manchu cultural connotation,thinking about the cultural level of "salvation".First,to promote the original Manchu culture adapted to the war environment,specifically to tap the hunter culture of the Shangri-Li factor,change the critical attitude towards shaman culture,so that both become cultural resources for salvation.Secondly,on the premise of cultural identity,he writes about the intermingling and merging of the cultures outside and inside Guanzhou in the "grassland",and re-examines the traditional Chinese culture in "Landscape of Jiangnan" to explore the road of cultural reconstruction.Chapter 5 explores the value of Duanmu Hongliang’s fictional creations during the war period.For one thing,Duanmu Hongliang’s fiction not only follows the discourse of the times of national unity,but also objectively reproduces the historical memory of the heterogeneous intermingling of Manchu culture and other ethnic groups,deepening the writing of Chinese national identity.Secondly,his fictional works break through the "anti-war eight" style of unity,forming a magnificent style in the grand narrative and revealing a feminine tone in the individual portrayal,realizing the innovation of aesthetic style with both "two strokes of ink".The concluding section.In terms of fourteen years of anti-war literature,Duanmu Hongliang’s novels depict a comprehensive picture of the national anti-war struggle while linking the early anti-war literary lineage.The artistic creation of his novels provides a rich reference for the literary creation of anti-war themes since the new period.