The Way To Individuality Through Conflict And Cohesion

As the manifestation of social and cultural phenomenon, religion is the carrier of history and culture, as well as the reflection of social and cultural mentality in spiritual field. This dissertation takes the religious colonization process in One Hundred Years of Solitude as the research object and holds that the description of the religious colonization in this novel actually reflects the cultural colonization fact of Latin natives and further shows their pursuit of cultural identification in the context of multicultural conflict and cohesion. This dissertation analyzes One Hundred Years of Solitude from the aspect of religion colonization and takes the history and religious culture into consideration in the purpose of bringing out its social significance through the macro-cultural context.The dissertation is divided into three parts. The first one is devoted into the discussion of the actual existence of religious colonization through the introduction of the historical transformation of Latin religion and culture. And this part facilitates later analysis by providing the historical background. The second part discusses in detail the Christianization process of Buendia—clan and the characteristic of "mix blood" under the influence of religion and culture in order to expatiate the impact and influence of cultural colonization to Latin native culture. The last part mainly discusses Latin people's identification and pursuit of their own culture in the confrontation of various foreign cultures and eventually brings out the mentality of Latin people: hope for the flourish of national culture as well as the retaining of their national "root".