Cultural Interaction And Marginal Writing

In the history of Taiwan female literature, Lin Haiyin is an indispensable and important landmark figure. Her peculiar life experience and diverse cultural identity which are intermingled and interactively expressed in her works made her "This one" in the literature history. Adopting the method of cultural criticism and aesthetic criticism via care reading on the works of Mrs. Lin Haiyin , this article seeks to probe into the in-depth influence cultural diversity places on the literary creation then further reveals the aesthetic transformation of the complex cultural identity in literary creation.Chapter one,the interweaving of diverse cultures. This chapter analyzes and explores the acceptance process to various cultures of Lin Haiyin in her complicated life experience, viz culrural inheritage from the descent of Min and Hakka migrant ;the metropolitan view in the new-old era transitional period; the interacted influence and infiltration from feelings of life on the remote island and orphanage complex ,which are the fertile spiritual sources of Lin's independent literary nutrition, and also the endless spiritual wealth which further became the hidden cultural denotations of Lin's works.Chapter two, deals with the spiritual embodiment of surveying difficulties. The multiple cultural basis of Lin Haiyin are not separated from each other. Instead, after repeated conflict, they developed into an interactive cultural system, which is clearly embodied in the "home-oriented "creative system promoted by the "Hakka people's" concept of "changing from Ke(guest) into Jia(home)", the traditional pursuit of harmony between human relations and the dual-lonely emotional needs. From threeaspects- the incomplete home and the experience of lacking, reformed home andhuman expectation, blood relationship and the parents' love-this chapter analyzesthe moral tendency in Lin Haiyin's works, so as to probe into the cultural spirit of "home", by which, according to Mrs. Lin, "home" is the Noah's Ark to overcome difficulties, and the spiritual support to meet the cultural demand.Chapter three, the dilemma of recognizing female's status. The female's conscious orientation of "withdrwal to family" in traditional culture is in conflict with their liberation of "freedom from family" in modern culture. What's more, in reality, modern Chinese female are confronted with the conflict of their respective role in family and in society. Both factors render Mrs. Lin into a dilemma as to recognizing female's status.In this chapter, after analyzing the tragedy of traditional female confined to family, professional women's sorrowful struggle to pursue success in career at the cost of family happiness, and the historical origin of female's common trouble, this chapter explains Lin's unique view of female. Lin holds that female should try to find the balance between their dual roles, so as to achieve their independence of personality and the harmony within the family. However, faced with the conflict between ideal and reality, Lin often find in a state of uncertain expression in contrast to the ideal assumption.Chapter four, "marginal personality "and "marginal writing". With the concept of "marginal person" in sociology, this chapter digs into Lin's "marginal personality" and further discusses the special significance of her "marginal writing". In her complex life, the successive tempo-spacial changes and the multiple shift of cultural roles rendered Mrs. Lin into a repeated state of "being middle" which is difficult to eliminate. This "being middle" state was shown in two aspects. Firstly, in her novel writing, she often adopts the view of bystanders, the interactive view of trans-generation, and the "he" view loyal to the ego, to establish the variable "aesthetic pattern of distant view". Secondly, in her original essay writing, she focuses on the hesitative affection of considering Peking or Taiwan as hometown and the feeling of man traveling in a place far away from home, so as to express the either world but is loyal to both worlds. In all, this "marginal" state in writing is the result of interaction of her multiple cultural roles.