On Cultural Meanings Of Narrative Perspective In Ethnic Minority Novels

The paper analyses the significance of narrative perspective in forming the polyphonic dialogues, constructing story space and conveying ideology as Gansu Qinghai Ningxia ethnic minority novels during new period for main examples. This paper therefore contains details as follows:The instruction summarizes the current studying situation and then explains the studying aim, thoughts, methods and key words of this paper.The first chapter analyses the third-person omniscient perspective and the third-person limited perspective of most novels; first-person retrospective perspective of home-coming narration and second-person perspective of several novels to prove the close relationship between multiple narrative perspectives and fashioning of writer’s cultural identity and novel’s ideology. The author therefore points out the polyphony and dialogues in novels compounded by narrative perspectives.The second chapter expounds the relationship between third-person limited perspective and story space. The home space reflected by characters’ perspective loads national memory and writer’s cultural identity; the city space on characters point of view as a kind of mirror reveals self psychology and attempt to dispelling impression of the other. The rented house as edge space shapes double perspective narration, which may overcome binary oppositions of narrating city and village in ethnic minority novels to make space in this narration open and boundless.The third chapter selects the Red Woman written by SuKe-Jingxiang, Songs of A-gan by Ma Zixiang, Knife in Water by Shi Shuqing and Father in Snow by Ma Jinlian as intensive reading materials to prove that different narrative perspectives can make original story open its inner world or present new meanings.The conclusion summarizes the main thoughts of this paper and emphasizes "narrative pattern-cultural meaning" studying methods not only can make up for limitation in ethnic minority literature study, but also rationally evaluate the literariness of ethnic minority literature in a way of interdiscipline to realize innovation according to current studying situation.