Tujia's Culture Exploration And Culture-identity-founding-Comment On Ye Mei's Novels

Ethnic minority writers are unavoidable to produce identification crisis and anxiety, because contemporary minority nationality literature is under the treble words hegemony: world literature, literature of Han nationality and elite literature. So in this solution, we must emphasize constructing the sense of identity of ethnic minority literature under the modernity meaning. The enlightenment of our ethnic minority literature lies in Ye Mei's writing: on one hand, she has a deep love for national culture, strong national pride and tenacious nationality's self-confidence; on the other hand, she has strong national suffering consciousness, strong introspective consciousness and critical assessment of culture and culture reconstruction consciousness. She knows clearly the complexity and relativity of national culture-identity-founding, so she can go beyond herself and move towards to positive , dynamic and open identity construction, trying to talk with world and mankind. The paper is composed of the following three parts. That is,the introduction,main body and conclusion.Introduction: This part introduces the development of minority nationality literature and Tujia's literature, reviews the course of her writing and comments upon her and her novels. And then it will extend to the standpoint of this thesis.There are three parts altogether in main body.Part One: This part focuses on the exploration of national minority character and national minority psychology, the showing of Tujia national minority customs and religion, and the thinking of national destiny and culture changes in Ye Mei's novels. Through these viewpoints , we can find the relationship between the writer and her own native culture.Part Two: The process of Ye Mei's national culture-identity-founding is dynamic and drifted as well as unified and integrated. It not only conveys the combination between other works and itself but also reveals its existence during the comparison with others. All above has attached positive enlightenment to the ethnic-group writer's new identity reconstructing and position-fixing in the global context.The expressions of the female's parole are complicated in Yemei's novels. Integrated with the national langue, the female consciousness always fights with the waking of the national awareness. Sometimes she bears strong emotion of female consciousness but sometimes she can't criticize the masculinity as deep as possible. The particular survival state, survival consciousness as well as the value of the females in Tujia Community have been conveyed through her novels.Part Three: Ye Mei combines the western narrative ways and traditional narrative means of Tujia nationality together. Her works inherit and surmount traditional narrative ways, and build special poetic art. The novels focus on the cultural characteristics of Tujia nationality and also stress the modern culture, trying to weld"pioneer"and"local culture"perfectly together.Conclusion: Through the systematic study on Yemei's novels, I try to find her novels'unique value in Chinese contemporary national minority literature, by making a history positioning and valuation.