Analysis Of Macanese Novels In 20th Century

Content: Macanese, who have blood from Chinese and Portuguese and have been living in Macau for several generations, is a special community in Macau society. Although they have a small population, they still survive in Macau, having two bloods and cultures. Their literature is closely related to Macau.Macanese novels of early and mid twentieth century mostly describe different communities in Macau (Chinese, Portuguese and Macanese), and this period was also the golden age of Macanese life style. During this golden age, there was intimate communication and connection between communities. After analyzing Fernandes', Coneicao's and Braga's literature, we can find descriptions of communities, families, marriage, and also Macau under colonization during mid twentieth century. In this thesis, theory of post-colonization was used to analyze the "native" literature generated with colonization background: how life of residents of Macau was described to generate the imaginary Macau in the literature.The connection between Macanese, Chinese, and Portuguese literatures are preliminarily described in the introduction of this thesis, which also describes how Macanese writing should be studied within this special literature setting.Chapter 1 During the twentieth century, the fluctuation in Macau populationinfluenced the movement of other communities, while the Macanese community settleddown in Macau. Being a continuously developing community, the Macanese were nolonger settlers only. This chapter discusses their life status and characteristics in Macau.Chapter 2 This chapter analyses the hand-over of the supremacy of Macau and thecolonial dominion in history.Chapter 3 Macau is a melting space of Chinese and Portuguese literatures. Theconnection and communication between Chinese and Portuguese, and how these werereflected in literature are described in this chapter.Chapter 4 This chapter summarizes the analysis of the novels which use Macau asliterary landscapes.Other sections forecast the Macanese literature development and research direction after the ending of colonization, and explore the identity of Macanese literature, to open up the criticism of the post-colonization literature.