The Geographical Narrative Of Ye Guangqin’s Family Novels

Ye Guangqin is a famous contemporary writer whose family novels have the highest artistic achievement and the most attention among her published works in many genres.From the perspective of literary geography,this article focuses on the writing of geographical landscapes and the construction of geographical space in Ye Guangqin’s family novels,and on this basis explores the causes of the geographical narratives in Ye Guangqin’s family novels.A large number of geographical landscapes are written in Ye Guangqin’s family novels,mainly natural geographical landscapes such as mountains and rivers,flora and fauna,celestial weather,and human geographical landscapes such as architecture,folklore and streets.The geographical landscapes in Ye Guangqin’s family novels play an important role or function in promoting the plot development of the novels,regulating the rhythm of plot development,shaping the characters’ personalities,and expressing the author’s sense of history and reflective and critical ideological themes.Ye Guangqin’s family novels carefully construct two geographical spaces: the space of the family home and the social space.In the family space,there is both the escape of the characters due to the confinement of the closed family space,and the deconstruction of the family home due to the invasion of "heterogeneity",as well as the identification with the family home.In the social space,Ye Guangqin depicts the urban space of Beijing outside the family home,the rural space in the suburbs of Beijing,and the foreign space outside Beijing.Ye Guangqin’s family novels expand the space of the family home to the social space outside the home,and the social space expands from a city to a country,using the home to symbolise the country.The two geographical spaces constantly cross and overlap,presenting a relationship in which the small is seen in the large,the family and the country are one and contrasted with and complement each other.The different geographical spaces together express the complexities of life itself and shape a multi-faceted,three-dimensional image of Beijing city.The geographical narrative of Ye Guangqin’s family novels comes mainly from the author’s unique geographical experience.The different geographical spaces and life experiences bring Ye Guangqin different life experiences,and the different geographical experiences also bring her different perspectives,and these geographical experiences and life experiences are undoubtedly expressed in her family novels.In addition,factors such as the narrative tradition of family novels,Beijing-style novels and the cultural trend of the 1990 s have also profoundly influenced the geographical narratives of Ye Guangqin’s family novels.