巨变时代的“文化焦虑”:“新世纪地域小说”研究

Abstract

After entering the 21st century, a group of young writers appeared in Chinese literature with a distinction of “local”. They tells stories happening in their own region in a realistic way which can be called “regional novels in the new century”. Referring to novels of this kind published in 2008 and later, they are found full of a strong sense of “cultural anxiety”. This cultural anxiety presents aspects of politics, economy and culture respectively. It is a representation of some real difficult situations in which the spirits of people and society are completely different when faced with historical changes of contemporary China since the turn of 2008. In the form of literature, the works in a sense are aimed to remind, help and inspire people to recognize the present society correctly. If we want to get rid of the realistic predicament in China, we need to rely on cultural reconstruction. It is not hard to find that novels provide resources of thoughts from political, economic and cultural aspects or frame of reference.