A Study of First-person Plural "we" Narratives
by Wang Meihong
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Narrative person is a basic issue in narratology research. The first-person plural "we" is a relatively rare narrative person in novel narratives. It has the characteristics of unnaturalness, non-commonness, and unreliability. In the past ten years, the Western narrative academic community has carried out active discussions based on the first-person plural "we" narrative in Western novels, among which the research results of Yuri Maglin, Susan S. Lancer, Brian Richardson, Amit Marcus and others are particularly outstanding. This kind of narrative person also exists in modern and contemporary Chinese novels. A review of the use of the person in China's literary field over the past century reveals that the first-person plural "we" in poetry and literary essays is more influenced by political factors, while the "we" in the field of novels is an expression of collectivism in a specific region or space derived from literary innovation, which has unique artistic charm.
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