On Narrative Ethics of Xiao Jianghong’s Novels

Abstract

Narrative ethics is the ethical feelings conveyed in the narration of novels, which provides a new perspective for the study of novels to transcend the traditional moral criticism and narrative form analysis and to interweave narrative and ethics. Xiao Jianghong’s novels narrate stories with ethical significance, and discuss the ethical issues of countryside and city, tradition and modernity, “change” and “ invariance” and exude a unique “divine” temperament. With the help of ethical writing in the narration of the novel, XiaoJianghong sensitively touches on the life predicament of the characters on the edge of urban and rural areas in Guizhou, and this writing has injected vitality into the creation of local Chinese novels.