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Ethics Narrative Of Yan Geling's Novels

Posted on:2008-08-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242469512Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Yan Geling is a extremely active writer in the overseas Chinese literary circles in present. Yan Geling has continously maintained a fairly creational enthusiasm and has the excellent works to be published unceasingly from 1985 when she began to create fiction to now. her works repeatedly won the big price in the international and domestic important literature awards ,and has already caused the attention and approval of the domestic and foreign scholars and critics.Yan Geling wrote "the Green Blood", "an Female Soldier's Whisper", "the Female Grassland" before going abroad which demonstrated the depth of the human nature's excavation and the personal contradiction and conflict in the traditional ethics relationships, which formed one of the charming causes of Yan Geling's novels. At the end of the 80's Yan Geling immigrated and resided overseas. Overseas experiences make her acquire broad culture vision and opened culture minds. She cares the native cultural tradition and ethics ideas by the way of the western modern thought. The powerful material force and modern ideas of the western society have a strong impact on the existing traditional ethical concepts and overturn them. A new perspective is used whether in the writing of history, politics, love morality or in the eastern and western cultures. Having the immigrational status, and "I" is between two kind of cultural ethics, whose efforts and anxieties of seeking identity verification are inevitably revealed in the novels. With the historical ethics, the love ethics and the identity verification between eastern and western cultural ethics for the clues, this paper is divided three parts to elaborate.The first part is the historical ethical narrative of Yan Geling's novel. This part mainly involves in Yan Geling's novels about historical theme, and shows the individual denting surpassing and sublimating history in the historical imagination and fabrication. The historical memory narrative shows the traumatic memories which the individual experiences personally and the mutual betrayal and hurt of the individual and collective. The purpose of saying the history is to say the present and excavates the modern demand of the historical ethics narrative from complex accent narrative of "present" and "past".The second part is the love ethics narrative of Yan Geling's novels. Yan Geling's novels mostly present store in the aspect of the male and female love, but goes beyond love. This part mainly inquires into the differences in the performance characteristics of Yan Geling's male and female love from traditional text written on that, which concerns the relationship between love and morality, between eros and the female growing up, as well as the pattern of love.The third part is the identity verification between eastern and western cultural ethics. As a writer, the perspective and depth in the writing of history and love all can not leave cultural soil which one is bore and raised here, Yan Geling obtained new ideas on things by going abroad, This part inquires into the efforts and anxieties of seeking the identity verification which the immigration writers are between eastern and western cultural ethics from three parts that immigrants face the conflicts of eastern and western cultural ethics, that writers are influenced by different factors of western cultural ethics, and that the immigration writers absorb the nutrition from the traditional culture. Finally, this part probes into broader and deeper implication of Yan Geling's novels.
Keywords/Search Tags:Ethics, Narrative, History, Love, Culture
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