New generation of literature: a writer and a native of the Internet
2022-07-12
Talking about the new generation of literature in every era is not to refer to the metabolism of physiological age, but to talk about the new aesthetic expression in the era of intergenerational colonization, and to talk about a possibility of rebirth and creation. Generation Z and generation m have become the identity symbols of young people in this era. In addition to transcending the experience of generations, what confirms their identity symbols are common memories such as fantasy, science fiction and quadratic elements. In the era of their growth, virtual space-time and parallel universe have been involved. In terms of media, the literary expression of the new generation is in fact inseparable from the Internet. Not even the media, but the world outlook. The setting of crossing and rebirth, the lifestyle of otaku and online social networking invade the fields of entertainment and aesthetics, and post human, sci-fi or fantasy imagination preferences... Can new humans and new youth redefine literature? In the most popular online literary stories, there are new aesthetic possibilities and intergenerational experiences created by the Internet generation At the end of May 2022, the "2021 online youth list" selected by the college student readers representing generation Z and Generation M was announced. From the 12 works on the list, the experience, virtual setting and gameplay experience of online students have brought new literary imagination to the "new generation". In these most popular online literary stories, there are new aesthetic possibilities and intergenerational experience created by online students. Although the heroine is still set as a passer-by in Nanfang Chihuo's businesswoman and her crane observation notes with Deng, crossing is obviously just an imaginary lead. Microeconomics leads the modern history, infiltrates the people's view of history into the writing of "qingchuanwen", and reflects on China's modernization process from a world perspective, thus realizing the reconstruction of tradition and history by the Internet generation. As an orphan girl at the bottom, the heroine of "businesswoman" pondered and achieved her personal and national history in the late Qing Dynasty, which was "changing" everywhere. The crane observation notes starts from a historical material that cannot be mixed into a smooth narrative. The transgressor gives subjectivity to the research object 600 years ago, which is actually looking for spiritual resources for researchers 600 years later. The scholar bureaucrat's "literary heart" for his family and country is not only reflected in the impassioned speeches on the temple, but also reflected in his personal belief of "saints inside and kings outside". Deng Ying and Yang Wan are interlinked, which is the symbol of the continuous context. The author restates a luxuriant "non fiction" biography with quaint brushwork, expressing the romantic spirit that truly belongs to scholars, thus expanding the boundaries of history and extending the branches of imagination. Chen Xiaozhi's Qingyun platform is to explore the social effects of phenomenal events in different time and space from the perspective of social problems. By tracing back to the beginning and end of phenomenal events, tracking the waves it has caused at all levels of society, it shows the line between truth and illusion, faith and obsession, calls on the questioning spirit in the depths of human nature, and presents the multidimensional mirror image of grand images and the light and shadow mottled of complex human nature. Yun Zhu's nishang night run intervenes in the earth's civilization transition period with the memory and perspective of the anthropomorphic organism nishang, imagining the essence of "human" and "non-human" emotions and the residence of the soul, the right of "life" and the boundary of "thought". Dancing is in "steady the waves", imagining the collision between the underground world and human fireworks Many people are paying attention to what the new generation of writers are writing. In fact, for them, they are writing about their life in this era. The new generation of network literature represents the appearance of the new era. From it, you can not only hear the aftersound of the magic world such as the Lord of the rings and Harry Potter, but also see the shadow of games such as secret room escape, werewolf killing, script killing, etc, The way of expression and thinking with context has become an indelible narrative background and embedded rhetoric in the works of the new generation. The new generation of writers of network literature fully shows the survival state of young people in all walks of life, and this survival experience is distinguished from the past time and space. For example, the "escape record" generates narration in the mode of wechat chat, and the long pictures and texts of wechat dialog windows build a circular forest of "secret room escape". The closed "secret room", the surrounding environment hidden in the crisis, incomplete survival clues, and several confused human beings try their best to seize the only chance to live. On the one hand, this unique way of narration brings readers an immersive reading experience. On the other hand, it stands at the forefront of the new media Internet era, showing the new imagination, new ideas and new attempts of youth groups for game narration. "Small town questioner" outlines a subtle portrait of the new generation of youth with dreamy and erratic strokes, and shows the bitter mood of young people who are older than the prosperous years in the face of their parents' expectations, "tagging" and "passive social interaction", the psychological reality of being coerced but powerless, and the growth experience and social symptoms of the new generation of youth about meaning and anxiety, as well as the forms attached in the form of hypertext Mind maps and song lists show a variety of possibilities of new media platform narration. In the seemingly fictional world, new propositions about reality continue to appear. The nomenclature of night, a talking elbow, points to the multidimensional world in "appearance" and "essence", "signifier" and "signified"; The "ninth special zone" of the false precepts constructs the "ninth special zone" with the topics of food and environment, justice and evil, peace and struggle, human nature and family and country; The dialectical relationship between "meaning" and "form" in Heishan old ghost's "from the Red Moon" runs through as a soul clue, exploring the depths of modern civilization we are immersed in through the logical chain of spiritual variation. Emphasizing the "new generation" is to emphasize a different kind of literary imagination. The context is continuing, the spirit is reshaping, and fresh air is pouring in At present, network literature is more and more different from traditional literature in introducing new themes and constructing new time and space. From the magnificent and mysterious world full of traditional Chinese cultural elements, to the game setting associated with the secondary meta culture, from the idea of the overall meta universe to the rearrangement of the time and space of daily life, online literature has brought new thoughts, new travel and new moves, which have gone beyond the scope of existing literary experience. The significance of the so-called new generation of literature is also highlighted. The network literature, which attracts a large number of young readers and authors, does not pursue pure "literariness", but makes them colonize the territory of "Literature" performance beyond the discipline of traditional literature on "Literature". The combination of science fiction and fantasy embeds parallel time and space in daily life, and such works appear in a large number in the new generation of online literature. What they bring is not only new themes and new imagination, but also the attention to new social problems and the expression of new emotions. The black mountain old ghost's "start with the Red Moon" does not lack in-depth observation of the psychological problems of the current people, the spiritual contaminant of loneliness, fear and illusion, the spiritual contaminant caused by the neglect of children due to busy work, the spiritual contaminant caused by the greed for the ultimate perfection, the spiritual contaminant brought by the possessive desire born of love, the spiritual contaminant caused by sleep deprivation... These "variations" seem to be not far away from themselves, The logical chain of spiritual variation is rooted in the depths of modern civilization we are immersed in. After reading it, a patient with Depression gave her a real feedback on the impact of the work... Tianrui Shufu's "we live in Nanjing" created a Chinese version of the story of high school students saving the world, showing the aesthetic style of scarce science fiction works in addition to professional science fiction settings, wonderful stories and delicate emotions. One end is "Pinellia ternata passed by the crescent Lake hundreds of times, went into the water to pick lotus roots hundreds of times, and his hands groping in the mud have touched the capsule hundreds of times... Hundreds of times, just for the last encounter", and the other end is "the light and shade of accidentally sleeping" in the examination room. The works flow with entanglement and missing. In this era of anytime and anywhere contact, with the increasing number of friends in the address book, it is inadvertent alienation and loneliness. "We live in Nanjing" reawakens the deposited tenderness and allows it to travel through time and space. When "crazy exercises" and "38 sets" are interspersed, the presentation of time in "we live in Nanjing" is no longer limited to the scope of physics, but also expresses metaphors about the past / present / future of human civilization. No one will always be the new generation, but there will always be "the new generation". To define it as the new generation, we need to explain what kind of spiritual turn and space-time proposition they have compared with the old generation. The historical development of network literature for more than 20 years has produced many propositions that hit the crux of the times through countless iterations. The intergenerational change of traditional literature takes ten years as the first order, but for network literature, it redefines the flow rate and connotation of intergenerational. Different from the "elite", "grassroots" and "commerciality" that Internet literature has gone through, emphasizing the "new generation" is to emphasize a different kind of literary imagination, which constructs a new intergenerational experience. New structure, new mood, context is continuing, spirit is reshaping, and fresh air is pouring in. The new generation of literature means the possibility of new era propositions and literary expressions. These changes do not only occur in online literature (genre Literature). The new fourth issue of Jiangnan magazine, "young writers' works album", ranks first in the "Post-00" matrix composed of Zhang Yutian, Cheng Tianhui, Huang Huai, Wang Ningjing, Bian Chuyue and other unfamiliar authors. Online Aboriginal writing has gone beyond "writing on the Internet". The literary critics are obviously keenly aware that the new generation of literature is coming. Recently, I saw many friends discussing the writers of generation Z. however, how do we name the new generation of literature? Now, rather than how much they have in common, it is precisely more uncertainty and growth, which may be pregnant with the possibility of future Chinese literature. (outlook new era)
Edit：Yuanqi Tang Responsible editor：Xiao Yu
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