A Study Of Local Narration In Hong Xingfu’s Novels

At the age of 18,when he published The Current in the Taiwan Daily,Hong began his novel career,including Black Boy,Market Legend,GVillage Man and Miss the Gong.He won the Wu Zhuoliu Literature Prize for excellent fiction twice,occupies an important position in Taiwan local literature,and is known as the new generation of "pure local literature".His novel creation focuses on the local world and the local people,presenting the psychological changes of farmers in the social transformation period through the description of the miserable life of farmers.Hong is good at organizing novels in easy-to-understand words and presenting the characters’ delicate emotions by describing their inner monologues.He entered the countryside from Changhua into the city,and examined the countryside again with a plain look,full of compassion for the farmers deep in the poor life.Compared with the contemporary local literature writers,Hong Xingfu paid more attention to the return of tradition,and his novels have many descriptions of traditional dramas and traditional religions.Therefore,this paper studies the narrative theme,character group image shaping,narrative strategy and creation significance from the local narrative of Hong Xingfu’s novels.The first part is the local narrative theme of the social transition period.This part is also the most important chapter of this paper.The author explores the local narrative theme of Hong Xingfu’s novels,and thus presents the common narrative focus of the local novel creation in the transition period of Taiwan society.The themes of local care,spiritual composition and urban-rural opposition writing occupy the main position in Hong Xingfu’s novels.Among them,local care is reflected in the reality and philosophy of life;spiritual composition is reflected in the humble and sacred aspects of the little people,and urban-rural opposition writing is reflected in egoism and community consciousness.The second part is the group image shaping of Taiwan farmers.The author explores the shaping of Hong Xingfu’s group image of poor farmers,the image of rural women and the image of sick and disabled farmers,and shows the author’s superb character shaping skills.Hong Xingfu is devoted to writing the deep unknown side of the farmers,and he also shows the diversity of the personalities of Taiwan farmers when presenting the common character of Taiwan farmers.The third part is the diversified narrative strategy.The author explores the diversified narrative strategies of Hong Xingfu’s novels from the two aspects of integrating classical novels and folk legends,dramatic structure and narrative level.The fourth part is the creative meaning.How tradition is modern is an important issue that Hong Xingfu thinks about in the creation of novels.His novels also present the process of how tradition is modern to a certain extent,among which the most important thing is how he presents the farmers’ lifestyle and ideology from tradition to modern.