Looking Between City And Country

At the turn of the century,Sun Huifen is the writer who attracts more and more attention in native literature.With a life experience alternating between the city and country as a basic resource of material,she opens one window which can lead to the rural interior world,in the relation and the contrast between the city and the country.This thesis has carried on a comprehensive review and the synthesis analysis to Sun Huifen's creation from her creative process,the narrative space,the cultural standpoint,the narrative characteristic the four aspects.Through detailed analysis of the text,this thesis tries to search the profound influence of the conflict between the memories of the rural life and the urban experience to the writer's producing.Character One,There is no end in the energetic journey.This chapter mainly introduces that Sun Huifen's life experiences and creative profile.The local conditions and social customs have opened her dream outward,entrusts with her the tenacious character and the feelings of compassion;Intertwined family complex opens the road leading to the others,and lets her feel the suppression of individual life which comes from family consciousness.Sun Huifen's creative profile divides into two stages,the first stage is the road of dreaming from the village to the city,the second stage is the road of recollecting which looks back at the village from the city.From the fresh and natural rural mood at first in the creation to the revelation of depth of human nature,she has the new harvest and the development in every step.Chapter Two,City and country:the narrative space extending bidirectionally.Sun Huifen's work include the local watchers,migrant workers,as well as those who returned from a foreign land and so on numerous rural character groups.The thing she writes extends to the city from the village,and also returns from the city to the village.This chapter divides into three parts,the first part is the watchers' loneliness and anxiety,which has analyzed the absence of "root" and the anxiety caused by "seeking for life into city" in rural community under the background of the tide of migrant workers flooding into city;The second part is vagrants' lack of mutual understanding and the grief,which has analyzed the migrant workers experience dual difficult positions in survival and spirit,when they plunged into city as "the other";The third part is the returned people's confusion and puzzle,which has analyzed the change of rural ethics and the pervasion of up-to-dateness made the people who return face the spiritual puzzle that they had no "home"when they go home.Chapter Three,Tradition and modern age:multiple cross-cultural position.This chapter analyzes the conflict between Sun Huifen's multicultural standpoint from her triple characters as the prasant,the intellectul and the feminine.She has developed the good and discard the inertia and blindness in the traditional culture from the illuminative angle,dilutes urban fickleness by the rural tranquility,and thaws the frost of fetishism by the warmth of affection. Standing in feminine standpoint,she has not marched into traditional or the modern extreme. She appreciates the goodness and the intolerance of traditional feminine,and also deeply regrets the shackles which the traditional ideas thrust on them;She hopes for that both sexes can be together harmoniously,and also hopes for that the female can still maintain in love.Chapter Four,Writing into the soul.This chapter mainly analyzes Sun Huifen's novel from the narrative time,the narrative perspective,the narrative sound,narrative style several aspects.Sun Huifen's novel is not noted for its tight and complicated plot,but is good at revealing people's complex and subtle psychological world.Through sequential crisscross and instantaneous extension,the psychological time holds text space by the greatest extent in the narrative time.In the narrative strategy,the knowledge-limited narrative perspective as well as the gentle narrative sound has pulled closer the reader and the text,being advantageous for the reader to walk into character's innermost world.Finally,this thesis has appreciated Sun Huifen's unique creative style from proser writing style and lyricism language the two aspects.