Spiritual Dialogue Across Time and Space: Study on Connotative Genealogy and Modernity Writing of Northeast Chinese Literature
Northeast Chinese literature is a distinctive literary category in modern and contemporary Chinese literature that embodies both regional characteristics and transcendent values. In its developmental context, the two core concepts of "Northeast Chinese literature" and "New Northeast Chinese literature" form a pattern of discontinuous continuity. From the perspective of conceptual history, this paper sorts out the generative logic of the two generations of Northeast Chinese literature, analyzes their spiritual dialogue relationship centered on "nostalgia" as the core motif and connected implicitly by modernist aesthetics. Meanwhile, it unearths the literary practices obscured by the mainstream literary history and restores the diverse and composite historical features of Northeast Chinese literature. On this basis, the paper further expounds the spiritual expansion of Northeast Chinese literature in the three dimensions of rural society, history and human nature, reveals its aesthetic transcendence path from regional writing to the exploration of universal human nature, and highlights the persistent inquiry of Northeast Chinese literature into individual destinies and the national spirit in the process of China's modernization.
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