Inheritance And Development - From The Recognition Of The Singapore Chinese Writer To See The Development Of Contemporary Chinese Literature In Singapore

With Chinese migrating to other country, Chinese literature entered each corner of the world. Overseas Chinese literature originated from Chinese literature, in each country Chinese literature has different process of development because of the various environments, but developing in cross-cultural background, in multicultural environment is the same way to all country's overseas Chinese literature. The development of overseas Chinese literature is a problem that how Chinese culture varies in the cross-culture background, and how overseas Chinese literature contains the tradition of nation culture, gains the equal right of speaking, and gets well on with other culture and makes development together with it in the meantime in the multicultural environment.Singapore is a flourishing region of overseas Chinese literature. There are lots of writers writing in Chinese. Singaporean Chinese literature was developed under the influence of the May fourth Movement. It has seventy to eighty years history. Now it is a representative branch of Chinese literature, so this thesis chooses Singaporean Chinese literature as the object of researching, to discuss the development and changes of Chinese literature in the multicultural backgrounds.The thesis uses the multi-identity viewpoint of the historian Wang Gungwu to interpret the development of Singaporean Chinese literature, and tries to explain the modern Singaporean Chinese literature from the relationship between national identity and cultural identity. There is a paradox between national identity and cultural identity, because the cultural identity has notable ethnic tendency, it usually is seen as splitting power in a multi-nationality society. Nationalism meets the challenge in Singapore society that emphasizes the unification of state. Singaporean Chinese literature has the strong cultural identity, so it inevitably meets with the problem of being in the edge of society. Singaporean Chinese writers try to reconcile the national identity and cultural identity through their own adjusting, and to form the Native Literature Tradition, which has notable regional characteristic.