Abstract
Yang Mo's (1914-1995) The Song of the Youth is a representative work in the Classic Red of Seventy Year Literature. The book shows how the protagonist, Lin Daojing, grows into a "new man" in the communist society through her love disputes and revolution career with Yu Yongze, Lu Jiachuan, Jiang Hua, as well as her training process in the working people. This paper first analyzes how The Song of the Youth combines the experience of "body" with the change of "revolution" to highlight the correctness of its thinking. The description of the revolutionary literary model is also examined. Secondly, through the revision process of the version, the paper discusses how the intellectuals are narrated in the novel, and how descent theory, sacrifice view, atonement doctrine and inheritance mission are displayed in the formation process of a "new man" to achieve the purpose of promoting national sentiment. Finally, the paper analyzes the entanglement between revolution and love in the mode of "revolution plus love". The paper intends to explore the manifestation of "revolution plus love" and the body view in the "clean" Seventy Year Novel, pointing out that the body is therefore exhausted, or to explore the possibility of re-excavating other possible body and desire writing within the text.
Translated title of the contribution | Clean Text and Pure Revolution Love?: On the Writing of Body and Desire in The Song of the Youth |
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Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
Pages (from-to) | 257-285 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | 淡江中文學報 |
Issue number | 42 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Keywords
- The Song of the Youth
- Seventy Year Novel
- New Man
- Body
- Revolution Plus Love