The "Era" Issues Behind "The Death of Ah Q"——An Interpretation of The Dead Era of Ah Q
The frequent appearance of the words"era"and"modern"in Qian Xingcun's article The Dead Era ofAhQ is worth pondering.Young revolutionaries inherit the linear concept of time held by the May Fourth intellectuals,and"era"becomes the value and ideology in itself,showing the elements of modernity.Both revolutionary literature and enlightenment literature use the"new"to deny the"old",and the repetition of the denial behaviors constitutes reincarnation in linear time,reflecting the peculiar"continuity of fractures"between the two types of literature.This"continuity of fractures"is also reflected in the transformation of enlightenment methods and the deepening of the degree of enlightenment."The death of Ah Q"is not only a metaphor for the arrival of the revolutionary era,but also a metaphor for peasants to get rid of their passive position in the cultural struggle.
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