| According to the words that were written by the representative scholar，HomiK.Bhabha in his book named The location of culture “Our era’s analogy aims atlocating the problem of culture in the fields of the other aspect”.From his perspective,inherent sense of space and time are being left behind.And all personal identity andcultural identity are in a state of change and temporary.The global circumstances aretransforming the logic and order, difference and identity, the past and current, insideand out, inclusion and exclusion. When people put the issues of the construction ofidentity as a thought, post-colonial theory is increasingly showing value and vitality.Post-colonial set up a kind of cultural theory context, also it has become theliterary criticism of the context.In this context, chinese comparative literatureresearchers pay close attention on Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and elaboratea uniquetheoretical framework.Simultaneously they develop a new discourse space.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck,an American lives a long-term residence in China withthe American culture in China’s reality. Filled with identification of the Chinese,shedescribes the panorama of the China in English. Meanwhile she went through avariety of identity drifting of anxiety,also struggles for the construction of identity. Inthe post-colonial literary criticis,seems that she has both alienation and approximation.Literary writing, as far as she is concerned, is displayed under the dual contradictionwhere her alienation and approximation inspired new status symbols.Essentially, spiritual essence of post-colonial theory consists in PearlSydenstricker Buck who has the dual cultural identity and the essence of the ideal ofthe greatest writers of multiculturalism.Chosing the perspective of post-colonial theory, this article focuses on herresearch and tries to in the context of colonialism in exploration of the works of pearlbuck’s cultural value and meaning of words.The reasons why I choose thepost-colonialism as the theoretical background for the study are mentioned asfollows：Firstly, the power of words and postcolonial objects. In the field ofcomparative literature and cultural studies, post-colonialism is one of the mostinfluential theory of discourse as a still booming in theory, it has plenty of vitality andpractical significance.The researchers of the post-colonial interpretation usuallydevelop in two broad closely related to the conceptual level: postcolonial theory trend and postcolonial literature.The former provides a foothold and discourse theory category of literarycriticism,nevertheless the latter study provides an analysis of vision and readingstrategies.Secondly,Pearl Buck’s cultural identity and characteristics of post-colonialconsciousness. She is a typical post-colonial writers,her post-colonial consciouesnessmakes up the blank about the postcolonial theorists’ focus on chinese reality. She alsocompleted her pursuit of the great practice of cultural ideal. Thirdly, the domesticpostcolonial perspective on the research of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck remains to befurther. Compared to the profound post-colonial cultural value and positiveconstruction significance. There are many shortcomings on the domestic research nomatter from the quantity and the depth of theory.The thesis is a further research on the works of Pearl Buck in the post-colonialperspective. The object of the study is Pearl Buck’s novels, not including itstranslation and autobiographical works,and theoretical analysis of this series of studiesis postcolonialism. The so-called research of the Pearl S. Buck novel is based on thecurrent status of research in the domestic field that mainly embodies in two aspects:the one is the expansion of text analysis. Her postcolonial consciousness existsthrough her work,in addition to the typical work performance, comprehensive andsystematic analysis permit her works to bemore objective and clear.The second pointis the reflection on the Pearl S. Buck’s works.The criticism of the her postcolonialismand even some post-colonial study practice in China should establish a western/eastern,the external dimension of the first to examine the world/third world.After theexposure to discussion of the analysis about her works, We need to grasp someunderstanding of the issues,including the post-colonial discourse implicit stance,post-colonial criticism object function dislocation, post-colonial theory ofdeconstruction and construction, and the understanding of the cultural viewpoint andpluralism cultural viewpoint and relativism. These understandings of the issues in thispaper act as the part of the theoretical position of the novels of Pearl S. Buck.In this paper, the contents of the structure is divided into three levels: First, is tomake a comprehensive summarization about Pearl Buck’s researches and retropect,and then to deduce the theoretical logic of the study and research significance. Second,the post-colonial perspective and Pearl S. Buck’s criticism.It going to discuss thepotence and the functor of critical words of postcolonialism,including to analyze three core category of discourse—“Other”，“Hybridity”and “identity”.Try to realizethe examination about her context of China.Last but not least is to be aware of herexpression in post-colonial consciousness.Pearl buck’s novel postcolonial consciousness and expression, embodied in thefollowing aspects:(1) Other’s authenticity–Real relationship between farmers and land in thePearl S. Buck.’s novels. According to the colonial literature criticisim’s discourse,“Other” suggests the concept of the orientation based on a Western-centricperspective,and the nature and society constitutes the "other" landscape through herworks. As for the writers noticed by several post-colonial criticism,“Other”alsosignifies their own past and marks their age wandering the edge of themselves. PearlBuck’s experience has been doomed to be an unstable, split statues and estangled indouble identities. Aditionally, she appeals to her own identity is not only areproduction, but also a writing mode,which full of tension under the identityparadox.(2)"Outside" and “intermediate”---The dual cultural experience in work ofPearl.S, Buck. Analysis of the values under the influence of multiculturalism works ofcultural colonization. Her consciously established her own cultural standpoint,shemade efforts to seize common ground on Chinese and Western religion and somethingcommon over the conmmunication between the western society and the oriental world.She cited that Buddhism and Christianity had many doctirnes in common, In herworks some combination of Chinese and western characters matched very well isapplied to express her own cultural ideas and theories.(3)“Conflict of Hybridity”----Post-colonial feminism in the works of PearlBuck. As "Hybridity" to diversity and cultural differences as the premise,in thehybridity process of integrating the colonizer and the colonized cultural symbols andcultural practices, cultural symbols and cultural practices have been mutuallynurturing and fostering,even have attained a mutual adaptation. These progressesmake cultural forms full of new vitality, but also show the suppression effect frompredominant culture.The religion that is conveyed in her works contributes to theintegration of the cultural hybridity.Postcolonial theory is still in active development, and changes in informality of"rehabilitation" of rheology, what we are applying to the research, the post-colonial discourse, is still infinite and endless.Her productions that full of reverence forcultural heterogeneity are prudent and cautious that is a undoubted alternativescientific and serious way when she is required to explains the heterogeneousculture.We need this rigorous and impartial attitude to continue the post-colonialdiscourse practice,even in the discussion on her culture values. |
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