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Local Experience And Spatial Representation Of Li Zishu’s Novels

Posted on:2021-05-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C H JiangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2505306041963319Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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As a new-generation Malaysian Chinese writer,Li Zishu has successively won literary awards such as the "Hua Zhuang Literature Award","The Dream of Red Mansions,and the World Chinese Novel Award".Her novels have a strong native landscape,a distinctive personal style,and a profound literary theme.As a Malaysian Chinese writer,she is consciously based on the local community and incorporates Malaysian local experience into her literary experience.With the pen of a novelist,she lifted the dark curtain of history and traced the river of history to the fate of the Chinese Malaysians who were marginalized,neglected and tampered with.This article starts with two aspects of local experience and spatial representation in Li Zishu’s novels.On the one hand,the local experience is not "knowing the world",but the relationship between human and land supported by modern geography,psychology,and psychoanalysis.Knowledge System.As the largest Chinese community with the most traditional Chinese culture,Greater Malaysian Chinese have been struggling to survive under the attack of historical violence and the squeeze of local politics in the past century.Local experience has become a source of identity for every Greater Malaysian Chinese..On the other hand,local experience affects Li Zishu’s literary writing,and it is expressed as a distinctive Nanyang scenery in the novel creation.The natural landscape of banana wind coconut rain is intertwined with rich and diverse human landscapes,marking the cultural attributes of Li Zishu’s novel.Local experience and literary experience are intertwined,and together they have shaped the world of Li Zishu’s novels.The deep sense of history makes his novels rich in meaning.Facing the historical situation of Chinese Malaysians who have been silent for hundreds of years,she did not directly write grand historical scenes,but touched the daily life of all sentient beings.The history of the world is reflected in the fragmented and changeable secular space,and the historical space is rebuilt with small and extensive.History is permeated with a repressive tone in Li Zishu’s novel text.The subject is in the torrent of time.Reality is intertwined with the past.Hope is adjacent to despair.Reminiscent thinking gives time the ability to travel vertically and horizontally.face.In addition,Li Zishu constructed a number of impressive space scenes.The cascading and specific space scenes in the novel were ultimately captured in the vast local space.The sadness of the characters and the complexity of human nature were concentrated in the specific space.Space is no longer just an empty physical container,but an emotional place that is closely related to the fate of the characters in the novel.The space has cultural and psychological significance.Literary and cultural interpretation of the space scenes in Li Zishu’s novels is a secret way to understand the characters in her novels.Through the perspective of local experienceand spatial representation,you can go deeper into the nightmare world presented in Li Zishu’s novels and experience the unique artistic characteristics of her novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Li Zishu, Malaysian Chinese literature, local experience, spatial representation
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