An Anthropological Analysis Of Alai's Novels

Minority Literature, as Tibetan Literature, is an important component in the field of Contemporary Literature studies. We can find a relatively complete reference frame for Han literature research through the excavations Tibetan Literature importance. Academia has paid more attention on it, but still not deep enough.Alai, as A Tibetan writer, is deeply affected by Chinese and Tibetan culture. He creates his novels with a unique creative talent, language expression and narrative modes in Chinese language. His works concern the nation, family and village history, he pay more attention to the edge of people, ordinary people and vulnerable groups who are neglected by history. It is undoubtedly very significant topics to discuss the success of Alai's creation in the context of globalization.It provides a new idea for the interpretation of literary texts to study the literature in the method of anthropology. We can find the anthropological nature from literary texts which have a strong sense of human subjectivity. The ideas of reading the text, as a useful exploration of literature, is not only the expansion of interdisciplinary mutual infiltration, but also the richness of literary text itself, excavations, and thus have methodological and ontological value.A series of Alai's works to Tibetan depict the local culture of Tibetan society in distinctive anthropological narrative style and culture of ethnographic writing style. They use the beauty language of literary to express the real things of cultural anthropology. His works are not only beautiful but a series of Tibetan history and cultural phenomenon of social anthropological "Thick Description." Accordingly, we will use anthropological interpretation on Alai's novels and find out the unique artistic charm of his novels from a new perspective and methods.This study will explore the following aspects: First, the local knowledge of Alai's novels; Second, the "Thick Description" of Tibetan culture and civilization; Third, the national identity of Alai's novels.