Mo Yan And Root-Seeking Literatur

Mo Yan’s novels and root-seeking literature are not only the products and symptoms of literary consciousness and regional/folk,national/cultural consciousness in the 1980 s,but also reflect the intention of this literary and cultural consciousness.On the one hand,Mo Yan’s novels and root-seeking literature both tend to return to the countryside and the edge.On the other hand,Mo Yan’s writing about his hometown shows a process from "avoidance" to "identification".In the process of "root-seeking",root-seeking literature combines western/local,modern/traditional narrative techniques,and Mo Yan is no exception.However,what is more noteworthy is that Mo Yan shows a sense of transcendentalism and highlights some "life passion" in narration in the experiment of modernism narration.Root-seeking literature is always in the context of culture.If root-seeking literature is root-seeking for "culture" as a whole,then Mo Yan’s root-seeking novels are root-seeking for "life".Mo Yan’s root-seeking for "life" is a duet of " creatures" and "wild".As far as culture is concerned,in Mo Yan’s novels,culture tends to be presented as the opposite of the oppression of the original vitality,especially in the level of morality.Mo Yan reflected on the alienation of morality to human nature,so his novels present the consciousness of "anti-morality".In addition,under the discourse of "new enlightenment" modernization of root-seeking literature,Mo Yan’s root-seeking novels also expressed the feeling of "degradation of species" and put forward the imagination of " purebred advantage ".In the evolution of the history of Contemporary Chinese Literature,root-seeking literature has promoted the upsurge of local narration.The subjective narration based on family/history in Mo Yan’s root-seeking novels has gradually formed a new local historical narration mode.This subjective narrative finally deconstructs the "humanitarianism" in the early 1980 s,and corresponds with the humanism thought in the "human literature ",presenting an irrational literary world related to the individual’s desire for survival.