On the Transformation of the Narrative of "Peasants Going to the City" in Jia Pingwa's Legend of the River and Mountain
As one of the major narrative themes in 20th century literature,"peasants going to the city" presents the narrative dilemma of conceptualization of characters,extremization of suffering narratives,and dichotomy between urban and rural areas. Jia Pingwa's new novel "Legend of the River and Mountain" reflects the transformation of the narrative of "peasants going to the city":in terms of characterization,it seeks to show the "intellectual" personality of the peasants going to the city,breaking through the previous conceptualized image of the peasants going to the city as ignorant and uneducated;in terms of suffering narrative,those peasants in the city are given the spirit of "resistance and despair" and are allowed to successfully get out of the predicament of survival,which realizes the transcendence of the narrative of suffering in the novels of "peasants going to the city". In terms of the narrative program,the "urban-rural dichotomy" is deconstructed,showing the transformation of creative concepts and the diversification of urban-rural relations under the change of times.
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