Xungen movement

Xungen literature (Chinese寻根 文学/寻根 文学, Pinyin xúngēn Wenxue ), also known as root or literature search of the root, is a literary movement that emerged in the People's Republic of China in the second half of the 1980s. The roots of Chinese civilization were sought in the peasantry and analyzed using new methods. This retrospective literature movement broke through the officially sanctioned realism and the common political rhetoric.

Development

As the reform and opening policy triggered a general disappointment with the Communist Party of China, writers began to look for defects that extended beyond the political system. They avoided a direct debate on political issues. Also the root search of the literature is shown in response to the grain literature. The Xungen literature asks for the historic cultural foundation that had excesses of the Cultural Revolution only made possible. The discussion of the literature with its own tradition benefited from the increased uptake of Western literature and Freudian psychoanalysis. Western narrative techniques, such as those of magic realism which characterizes the works, which are known as Xungen literature. So also Gabriel García Márquez became a new literary model.

With the "roots" of literature (Chinese文学 的"根" /文学 的"根", Pinyin Wenxue de GEN) wrote Han Shaogong 1985 a landmark for this literary movement article in which he asks the Chinese identity the focus of attention. The Xungen literature tries rediscover not only the Chinese identity, but also the identity of the individual. So this retrospective literature movement is not only a resurgence of peasant literature earlier communist writer, but a way of literary liberation from ideological bias and deep-rooted patterns of thought.

Characteristics

The Xungen literature has no didactic function and rejects the concept of farmers as a political category from. In retrospection on the peasantry as the foundation of culture, she returns to a fundamental understanding of their own civilization to overcome it. Use the items from the home of literature and modernist narrative techniques were created varied narratives. Their focus is also directed to the literary process itself. Self-reflexive literary creation, anachrony, multiple perspectives, strong language awareness may be cited as characteristics of Xungen literature, among others. The works of Xungen literature are identified from each other by their complexity and strong differences.

Authors who contributed to Xungen literature

  • Ah Cheng
  • Can Xue
  • Deng Yi
  • Deng Youmei
  • Feng Jicai
  • Han Shaogong
  • Mo Yan
  • Ma Yuan
  • Wang Zengyi
  • Wang Anyi
  • Zhen Wanlong
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