Anxiety Of Modernity Fan Xiaoqing’s Novel Creation Theory

Fan Xiaoqing,one of the leading figures in Jiangsu literary circle,has always maintained a strong creative passion and never stopped writing since the publication of Night Return in the1980 s.From "light of the city" to "brief history of urban and rural areas’ ’,she seems to express a common theme of modernity anxiety and predicament that everyone will face in the process of urbanization through the pursuit of the countryside,the rejection of the city,the alienation of the urban heart,the search for identity.The introduction part first briefly reviews the author ’s creative process and research status,then clarifies the related concepts of modernity and modernity anxiety,and explains the reasons for the topic selection.The first part mainly combs the anxiety of the rural world in the face of modern civilization,including the continuous loss of permanent population and land resources,the decline of folk beliefs and rural culture.At the same time,this clash of civilizations has also created a dilemma for villages to modernize.The rule of law and modern systems are difficult to completely shake the too stable local ethics,which has brought discomfort and resistance to farmers.The second part discusses the modern imagination of urban space in the works,involving the collective nostalgia brought by homogenization,the confrontation between the transformation of the old city and the protection of traditional culture,and the worry that the body is enslaved and squeezed as a spatial concept.The third part discusses the spiritual anxiety that modern people in urban and rural areas generally suffer under the two-way flow of entering the city and returning home.Those who enter the city lack a sense of identity,and urban people suffer from various ’ urban diseases ’.These eventually led to the anxiety of identity and the crisis of subjectivity.The fourth part tries to explore the profound value of Fan Xiaoqing ’s modernity writing,that is,the absurd realism,the changeable narrative perspective and the constant humanistic care.She places infinite nostalgia and reflection on the watch of nationality.The purpose of this paper is to place Fan Xiaoqing ’s novel creation as a whole under the vision of modernity.With the help of space theory and sociological theory,this paper studies the modernity anxiety hidden in the urban image and local characteristics constructed by his works,and analyzes the narrative strategy and the aesthetic orientation behind it.On the whole,Fan Xiaoqing can combine the investigation of modernity with his own novel creation,which brings certain reference value for the localized writing of modernity and local literature.