Genealogy and Ideology of the Avant-Garde Fiction

The emergence in 1987 of writers such as Yu Hua, Ge Fei, and Su Tong, who represented the so-called avant-garde fiction, is often considered to be a “rupture” in the literary history of the 1980s. This means that critics and literary historians could no longer use familiar critical concepts from the first half of the 1980s to comment on writings by these writers. In fact, how to describe the unique position of avant-garde fiction in the literary history of the 1980s has long been a tooic of debate.