Abstract
The encounters of tradition and modernity, the local and the global make rewriting history a prominent narrative syndrome of literature of small nationalities. It is rewriting history’s basic appeal to summon collective memory and subsequently to reinforce an awareness of boundary and reproduction of identity with it. History in this sense is not a grand history written to be verified, but a narrative and hermeneutic tradition, a past constructed and molded by texts. Because of the absence of self-other spatial dimension, the single temporal dimension of tradition-modernity makes rewriting history penetrate the boundary of literature and ethics. Rewriting history can only exit from existing predicament by adopting "fluid tradition/history" as the principle of narration and inter-ethnic communication, and by dispensing with the binary mindset.
First Page
48
Last Page
57
Recommended Citation
Li, Changzhong. 2017. "Literature of Small Nationalities: Rewriting History, Boundary and Transgression." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (2): pp.48-57. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss2/11
