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A Study On Yan Geling's Novelistic Themes In The Perspective Of Cultural Research

Posted on:2009-01-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242995051Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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As an important new immigrant literature writer,Yan Geling is praised as one of the most powerful authoress since the 1990s both at home and abroad. She has won the Taiwan nearly all literature big prize, and also obtained Leida, Chen Sihe and many other commentators'high appreciation. In particular, in recent years, with the Language of Suzi ,Ninth Widows, the Jinling 13 Ornamental hairpins and her script's popular,Yan Geling gradually enteres the persepective of mass culture research, and continues to give us new reading experiences and enjoyment.Throughout the creative process of Yan Geling, it is obvious that her works are full of unique insights and ideas, such as humanity, life and culture, which have provided a copy of the possible answers for us to research. In recent years, many commentators also analy the Yan Geling's creation from some angles, and achive good results.This text draws up from the cultural research angle, to make a comprehensive analy and study for Yan Geling's creation. Through her multi-dimensional themes, we want to explore Yan Geling's unique cultural identity and cultural aspirations which the theme carrying, in order to look into the Yan Geling's status and significance in the Chinese literary arena as well as the Chinese Modern literary arena of the whole.Chapterâ… : The Multi-dimensional Themes under the Cross-Cultural Context. In this chapter, we want to study the creative themes to a more systematic and comprehensive degrees from four sectiongs, which the novels are Yan Geling has been published at home. Reconstruction of the early history of immigration and the traumatic nightmare of"the Great Cultural Revolution", concerned about the current life of new immigrants, described in the abnormal state on the verge of human emotion, highlighted the feminine nirvana and the rebirth, these all are Yan Geling's similar themes which related repeatedly in the creation. However, as an outstanding writer, each return of Yan Geling's creation is not a simple repetition, but has placed richer and the profound cultural connotation and implication. Chapterâ…¡: The Cultural Identity's Construction and the Generation of Multi-dimensional Themes.This chapter emphatically analyzes Yan Geling's cultural identity characteristic from two aspects, which generate the multi-dimensional themes. On the one hand, the experience of other countries changes Yan Geling's original identity, thereby issues a new culture identity. The multiple and complex role of the two worlds, an awareness of the Feminism, a crisis of self-identity with"the Great Cultural Revolution"causes make Yan Geling facing acute crisis of identity and individual value of life which shielded the anxiety of self-identity; On the other hand, compared to a single identity, the contradiction and the conflict of culture, ethnicity, gender identity and so on not only broadens and deepens her field of vision, but also enables its creation to have in one cultural space tensity, thus deductes the multi-dimensional themes come to eternal beauty.Chapter III: The Cultural Aspirations of the Themes Carrying.This chapter is mainly from two aspects to analy the cultural aspirations of the themes bearing. Divorced from the mainstream of social mechanisms in the range of"Perspective"makes Yan Geling treat the Chinese traditional culture as a rational and profound understanding, and the local community for many years accumulation of traditional civilization also let her immersion on the Western world has a clear reflection of the eyes, thereby she treats the two cultures of the East and the West as a calm reflection and self-examination; In addition, Yan Geling also places a strong human aspirations, which she tries to find the best way of the multi-cultural contact to achieve the integration.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yan Geling, Cultural Research, Themes, Cultural Identity, Cultural Aspirations
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