On Language Revolution of Chinese Avant-garde Novels 1984-1989

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10.2991/iaw-sc.2013.231How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese Avant-garde Novels; Discursive Practice; Language Revolution

Abstract

The Chinese avant-garde novel refers to the writing practice of a group of literary men in south China from 1984 to 1989. These literary men include Ma Yuan, Hong Feng, Su Tong, Yu Hua, and Bei Cun, and so on. They had initiated the “language revolution” of Chinese new period literature, and soon abandoned their revolutionary attitude, returned to the routine work of writing. This is always a mystery to be solved in the Chinese Contemporary Literature. According to Foucault's archeology of knowledge as the theoretical framework, our work carry on the analysis of the related historical facts, draw the following conclusion: First of all, the writers resist the influence of ideology through “language revolution”. Therefore, the literature can break away from politics and power gradually. Next, these avant-garde novelists redefine “truth” through “language”. They replace the “truth of external depiction” in literature with “the truth of internal feeling” in ridiculous texts. As a result, the creation of novel acquires unprecedented freedom.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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