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Marginal Life In Geling Yan's Works

Posted on:2011-07-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W C WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332462049Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This paper intends to Geling Yan Novel from the edge of life to start, through the three chapters on the edge of Geling Yan works carried out in specific and detailed characters, as well as from the cultural, human and other aspects in more detail. Specific sections below.Chapter I: the edge of the memory version of the writing. This chapter from the author's own experience Zhi proceed to analyze its presentation of the reasons described by the edge of life and status.Chapter II: Edge of humanity and culture, Zhang Yang. The complexity of human nature at the edge of the body can better reflect the character. Chapter III: East-West cultural collision and fusion. The original method of moral standards and value judgments, in the new colonies were all faced an unprecedented challenge and subversion, the new immigrants are going through a "uprooting" and "rooted" in arduous. Eastern and Western culture in the new immigrants carried out a fierce collision. Immigrants after landing in a foreign country, from language to culture of origin with their own property has a qualitative difference. Geling Yan is an attempt to critically accept the American culture, compares the pros and cons of Chinese and Western cultures, but the feelings of belonging and value judgments contrary to absurd. But from the emotional ownership of everything in China, including the mother tongue, the emotional experience of China, Chinese-style education, the ideal is difficult to let "I" get rid China. Oriental culture, classical, cumbersome and occupies the minds of Westerners in general fascination with the temptation. However, the rapid development of modern Western economies, Eastern culture in the Western mind are no longer respected as the advanced civilization, from the Eastern culture to some extent in relation to Western culture is a weak culture. Westerners, as well as the East Asians have a cultural hegemony, that is, post-colonial, buried with the rescue of a metaphysical sense. Yan Shi works in them to see each other Eastern and Western culture, so that the two are in development, but to enjoy the status of containment. Along with the development of global economic integration, countries increasingly strengthened economic and cultural ties. The Geling Yan in the works, people expressed through the edge of a culture of hope for the exchange and integration aspirations. Overseas Chinese writers in East and West, two different cultural backgrounds, with different cultures of the contact process, in upholding the cultural identity of this tribe, while a positive and optimistic attitude to seek inter-cultural communication, exchanges and cooperation for the estabilishment of multi-cultural concept of equality become extremely important.
Keywords/Search Tags:Geling Yan, edge of human life, humanity, the East and West
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