底层人的“上海梦” — 从≪美丽的日子≫到≪富萍≫

Abstract

By comparing “Shanghai Dream” of subaltern people who lived half a century ago in Shanghai and “Shanghai Dream” of subaltern people who live nowadays in the two novels, this paper analyzes the difficulties of survival and spiritual struggles of “small potatoes” in Shanghai. Firstly, with the process of urbanization, it is more and more difficult for subaltern people to realize “Shanghai Dream”. Secondly, in order to realize the dream, they have to pay much higher costs than half a century ago. Thirdly, the interpersonal relationship becomes increasingly indifferent and even brutal. These striking changes in the literary world reflect the fact that urbanization and the logic of capital not only promote the change of Shanghai's geographical space, but also bring about the changes of human social relations and cultural ideas in the past half century, especially in the last 30 years. And these profound changes that are taking place in the real world constitute the historical and cultural context for the production and reconstruction of “Shanghai Dream” of subaltern people in the literary world.