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This paper focuses on Xiao Song , a writer of Manchukuo, and tries to draw the outline and attitude of the "writer Xiao Song " for the first time. Inspired by the concept of "Lyo-colonial Literature" from the research perspective of "Manchukuo literature", I try to open up a new space for interpretation of Xiao Song's works. Through the re-examination of Xiao Song's overall creation, the writer's style can be updated and enriched, and the blank of basic research on writers in the "Manchukuo" can be filled. There is a subtle and complex tension between Xiao Song's creation track and literary concept and the cultural policies of the Manchukuo government. His literary activities and creations changed according to the changes of the literary environment. Therefore, Xiao Song's literary career was "typical" of the development of Manchukuo literature, and his concept of literature supremacy made him "atypical" among contemporary writers. Through the close reading of Xiao Song's important works, the author shows two creative changes in his literary career. Xiao Song's preference for realism and narrative prompted him to change his focus of writing style from poetry to fiction. Two of the novellas are fables of the same nationality, while the novel are both realistic and popular.By comparing the last two collections of short stories, Xiao Song, as a "dream factory technician", experienced a rapid decline in the tendency of realism in his later novels, and was forced to return to the literary noumenon for literary "lyo-colonization". |