The Essence Of Life Pursuit

Hualin Nieh is the remarkable representative of American Chinese literature in sixty or seventy years of last century, perhaps it is her outstanding and successful intercultural communication activity that makes us familiar with this overseas Chinese-language writer gradually, but we seem to pay close attention to Hualin Nieh with writer's identity and her literary works extensively. Because she and her works have model nature and representativeness in the development climax of American Chinese literature in sixty or seventy years, and her works also have much characteristics really.With the centure of Hualing Nieh's works(novels mainly), thesis discussed deeply the following questions comparatively at the foundation of reading novels carefully: Hualin Nieh's literature understanding, the concrete theme connotation unfolded by this kind of understanding, how the writer tries to find out and establishes her peculiar aesthetic style in creation.In a certain meaning, a writer's understanding of literature can be regarded as the component of his world and life outlook, Hualin Nieh's understanding of literature became deep and abundant gradually with her understanding of life in different circumstances. The war memories in the mainland, the poverty existence in Taiwan and the steady life in America had an essential influence in the forming of Hualin Nieh's literature world. Then with the influence of the spirit in "May Fourth" new literature and modern literature of America and Europe, the writer established her novel purport by taking "people" as the core. "People" in the novel perform continuous vitality consciousness everywhere, firmly believe the "people" spirit that will never die. Chinese are unable to break away from the interweaving strength formed by the heavy historical consciousness and the suffering consciousness in that particular times, but in the novels Hualin Nieh has shown out this consciousness state accumulated deeply in a generation's psychological ground, especially the culture puzzle between motherland and foreign land and the identity anxiousness as the minorities. At the same time, thesis probed into the difficult process of Hualin Nieh's aesthetic style, then pointed out the diversity of her novel characteristic: implication , fable technique, drama technique, poem technique, the inheriting and innovation in the view point of narration, etc. Finally we choose two concrete angles that are image and analogy to watch the aesthetic style of her novels deeply.