The Writing Of Marginal Man In Yan Geling's Immigrant Novels

Yan Geling is a high-profile new immigrant writer in the global Chinese literature.Her novels about overseas themes written abroad are based on the hybrid cultural context and create a kind of solid and sensible images of Chinese immigrants.Yan Geling faces the survival situation of overseas immigrants with the aid of characters in her novels,and she also positively strives for expanding the development space of the immigrant writing at the same time.The writing of�Marginal Group�in Yan Geling' works breaks regional boundaries of hometown and exotic places,links the history and reality,and not only provides successful reference experience for the creation of overseas literature but also infuses new blood into domestic literature.This paper consists of following parts:The introduction is to sort out and summarize the literature from the academic circles about Yan Geling's works in recent years.Based on the mastery and understanding of the academic trends of research on Yan Geling,the introduction describes the research range of the chosen topic and the consciousness of problems,and it defines relevant concepts involved.The first chapter is on the basis of overseas immigrants novels,and mainly analyzes the different images of marginal group,including overseas Chinese prostitutes,workers,students and young immigrants.It concludes the concrete manifestation contained by the word Margin in her works and causes of those marginal situations from three perspectives:the plight of the downtrodden,the dislocation of emotional belonging and profound cultural barrierThe second chapter mainly analyzes the spiritual connotation of marginal group.It focuses on the existence of marginalized people in the context of heterogeneous culture and explores the internal connection between Chinese immigrants' spiritual predicament and culture.The survival mode selection in the foreign context made by the marginal group in Yan Geling 's works is not only the self-pursuit of individual immigrant,but also the different psychology presented as "The Other" cultural roles.The third chapter discusses and analyzes Yan Geling's unique way of telling the story about marginal group from the perspectives of narrative strategies,living space images and outsider's creative mentality.Firstly,in the narrative perspective,Yan Geling emphasizes the selection of perspectives and endows those perspectives with abundant cultural information which exudes the charm of the interpreter.Meanwhile,the two layers of space-time of narrative structure expands the narrative capability.Secondly,she utilizes a series of living space images including cities,Chinatown,apartments,restaurants to demonstrate the unique implication of her novels.Lastly,it is to understand the profundity of Chinese immigrant images created by Yan Geling through the combination of her personal marginal experience and self-consciousness of marginal group.The fourth chapter,on the basis of previous three parts,starting from the special position of marginal group,from a cross-cultural perspective,explores the significance of shaping marginal group to Chinese literature and its own value.Yan Geling's writing of marginal group enriches and extends the literary connotation of the word Margin,and fully highlights the constantly conflicting identity consciousness in overseas writing of new immigrant writers taking her as a representative,as well as the more rational thinking beyond the simple nostalgia feelings.The conclusion objectively points out the limitations of Yan Geling's creation of overseas immigrant themes,but as a part of Chinese literature,new immigrant literature has tremendous development potential and there is huge space to be developed.