Crossing the maze of memories to reach a romantic,ideal,and beautiful rural community that is different from reality is the basic narrative path of the new century's Yancheng local novels.The rural community in the novels mainly consists of traditional rural virtues as elements,characterized by family-oriented and pastoral representations.The ubiquitous modern rational discourse reflects the new century Yancheng writers'attempts for dialogue with social reality.New century Yancheng writers reconstruct rural memory,rebuild local communities with modern significance,and explore cultural contexts in dialogue with modern civilization.To some extent,they provide us with another approach to reflect on modernity.
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