On The Spiritual Character Of Yan Geling 's Novels

Content :Form the dancer to the writer, from the Chinese to American, from novel to film and television works, Yan Geling the resume rich female writing a legend of overseas Chinese literature field with her brush strokes. The studies of her works followed her legend had toward the peak in recent ten years. This paper will start from the whole creative process of Yan Geling, selected her representative works as the object of study to analysis. Attempts to carry out an overall research on hidden in the text under the spirit of the character, and to explore the significance and value of contained unearthed in Yan Geling’s works.This thesis adopts a parallel structure are discussed. The first chapter will elaboration to the motherhood contain in her work. Yan Geling is good at writing of women. Although the women under her pen were different, but the glorious of motherhood on them are hard to ignore. This motherhood contains "passion, forgiveness, and the thought of destroy themself." This chapter will use the method of text reading to show this kind of motherhood, and through this motherhood to discover its unique significance, namely in the succession of traditional culture and in the searching for the relationship between the sexes balance.The second chapter will discusse the problem of marginalization of immigrant. This chapter takes "Fusang",the influential works after the author’s emigration as an example, descripting on the living circumstances of two generation immigrants, to show the problem of marginalization of migrants. On this basis, Analysising the migration marginalized situation that author writing for deeply, and exploring the ideas hidden behind the word that author wants to express, namely, the author not only reflected in the history and reality, but also hope that oriental could transcending the Western National.The third chapter will cut Yan’s works from the perspective of freedom, of text reading. It appears in the author, free topic throughout creation course of Yan Geling, especially in its cultural revolution as the theme of the works appeared in the most obvious. Behind the writing of Yan Geling’s freedom, she is to adhere to the ideological liberation of personality. Yan Geling accept the spirit of The literary revolution and the freedom of western thoughts, and she pu the liberation of personality thought into the Cultural Revolution writing. It has also become an important part of the spiritual character of her works.The fourth chapter will use Yan Geling’s life experiences as a starting point, Discussion in accordance with the time well. Exploring the experiences of her life, find out the formation of three spiritual character that Yan Geling’s works show us.