Diaspora: Find A Congenial Home

Diaspora is an ascertainable road with brambles:It provides the subject with the unique perspective, by that the subject is forced into the awkward condition in the meantime. This thesis based on the attitude of the analysis of the literary text combined with the research of the culture, is aimed at deliberating the status of diaspora in the author and his writing, then revealing the characteristics of The Third Principle, and the far-reaching significance of that as the product of searching the confident dwelling place by the specific analysis of fiction writing and the holistic comprehension of nonfiction writing.The thesis contains three parts:the Introduction, the Text (three chapters) and the Conclusion.Introduction:Introduce the sketch of the story background of Rushdie and the unique feature of his writing; Review the various viewpoints of research about his writing so far, such as Magical Realism, New Historicism, and Intertextuality so on; Then point out the innovation of this thesis:on the condition that the comprehension of culture be combined with the analysis of the literary text, this thesis researches into the status of the diaspora, the basic modules, the psychological frame especially the intrinsic root of The Third Principle by referencing the concepts of ambivalence, between, beyond of The Third Space from Homi K. Bhabha.(Text) Chapter One:By combining the cultural tradition of the Indian Subcontinent with the story background of Rushdie, this thesis aims at analysising the characteristic of the writing and the basic modules of The Third Principle:The memories of the diaspora is not only broken but false. By contrast, the imagination is being real because of breeding the eternally spiritual homelands; Magic can step across the line to contact with the actuality and affect it:By these four modules, the hybridity and ambivalence not only consist of the base of The Third Principle, but open the crevice of agreeable world for the diaspora.Chapter Two:Analysis the psychological frame of The Third Principle by the angle of the specific expression of normal mind in the diaspora such as Shame, Fury and Sigh:Shame results from the distinctiveness. The diaspora can neither abolish the existence of the past, nor ignore the present feeling of being excluded, so they have to be subjected to the torment of double-shame as the eternal outlier; The things derived from the condition of the diaspora is not only the weighty sense of shame, but the double-fury:On one hand, they turn into the traitors after being seduced away from their motherland; On the other hand, they become the marionettes, what can never hold their own fate to enter the promised land; Sigh is the inquiry and understanding about the exits preinstalled by The Third Principle:Fusing can only make the monsters because of the space being compressed; Decladding means they have to keep exiling themselves. Both of them are full of contradiction and suffering:the agreeable place is always flickering.Chapter Three:Introduce the concepts of between, beyond and ambident to explore the intrinsic root of The Third Principle:The diaspora always struggle in the crevice between self and otherness, and the more serious thing is the conflict between them has turned into stalemating between double-otherness, even more otherness; Because of the allure of otherness and the irreversibleness of autophilia, the diaspora has sunk into the lasting situation of beyond:they can't get into the Castle near at hand. Meanwhile, they cannot find the way back home. Eventually the diaspora can't berth at either of them, and they inevitably fall into the condition of ambident.Conclusion:Identity is the confine of oneself; The condition of diaspora cannot help the diaspora get off the trammel of identity, oppositely it brings the anxiety and suffering:To some extent what can provide by The Third Principle from Rushdie is actually the portable agreeable transient shelter, but still contains contradiction and suffering。The diaspora can not yet achieve their goals about putting down their roots forever by virtue of this principle.