NDLI: Spontaneous scripts as fictional narrative: an innovation in postmodern fiction

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Author	Feng, Zongxin
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This essay deals with a special text-type in postmodern Chinese fiction which radically deviates from all conventional forms of narrative. Appearing as a “short story” but in the form of a schoolboy’s spontaneous scripts and absent-minded scratches, it presents everything naturalistically in a non-fictional mode. By presenting trivial characters and uneventful happenings in random pieces that constitute a new form of narrative, its author artfully shows rather than tells that life is more realistic in the eyes of a child and is richer, more colorful and meaningful in fragments. With newness on almost all levels of linguistic and narrative presentation, the story practices eventful narration in process narration by interweaving fragments into a highly coherent discourse of fictional narrative. While there is hardly a theme or obvious message in most of the individual pieces, the story as a whole implies undertones of the satire on many aspects of school and family life. This avant-garde literary experiment not only refreshes the reader’s schema of literature and adds to their experience of literary reading, but also contributes to the making of postmodern fiction by enriching the concept of narrative, the definition of narrativity, and ultimately the notion of literature.
Starting Page	73
Ending Page	88
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03244652
Journal	Neohelicon
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15882810
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-05
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Avant garde Postmodern fiction Literary discourse Literariness Narrativity Comparative Literature
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Law

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