The Effect Of Identity On Alice Munro's Literary Creation

This thesis devoted to research how identity affects Alice Munro in her short story making. I try to combine the female identity and her Canadian nationality with the narration form. The narration technique is not only seen as the product of ideology, but also treated as the ideology itself. I explore the concrete text form in order to research the interaction between social identity and text. Take the voice of narration as the fundamental expression. And try to interpret identity problem affects story making in three different ways: identity affects female theme, identity affects the ways of narration, and social identity affects literary creation.The first part is a brief analysis about the influence which identity exerts on Munro's theme. In her works, there are much thinking about modern women's problem, including love, marriage, family, and parent-child relationship etc. Munro neither romanticizes nor moralizes explicitly, but lets her protagonists reveal their own problems, thus displaying different aspects of reality.The second part discusses identity problem affects ways of narration. Female identity makes Munro sensitively realizes the uncertainty of reality, thus she consciously avoids intruding action as an omniscient author. The deceptively simple style and varied narrative strategies serve the theme, which set up suitable framework s for the story telling.The third part analyses how the interaction between female identity and Canadian nationality influences Munro in her story telling. Canada is a nation of immigrants and it has its unique multi-cultural background. From the beginning of Canadian Literature, the Canadian writers explore their identities consistently. This part takes Munro's text as the approach and tries to explain how social identity affects short story creating.In the form and the theme aspects, Munro's work is neither as natural simplicity as realism works in the traditional sense nor as rebel as the post-modern works. She observes the world from female perspective and she describes female lives, and writes her own perception of life. As for her writing technique, she does not adhere to the tradition. She tries to innovate the ways of story telling, and takes some writing ways of post-modern writers, thus enhances the story telling to a new height.