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The Yunnan Minority Writers Culture Identity And Aesthetic Choice

Posted on:2012-02-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R P ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330338455807Subject:Aesthetics
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With the accelerating process of globalization and post-modernism, especially the spread of postcolonial theory,cultural identity problem has become an important research subject of scholars. Meanwhile, it also became an unavoidable problem in a minority literature. Cultural identity determines the style and aesthetic appearance of works of most writers, which is based on different culture background and different aesthetic concepts.Contemporary Ethnic Writers with multiple cultural backgrounds in Yunnan are subjected to the collision of multiple cultures, thereby, cultural identity has become a most important issue, which specifies how to deal with the ethnic cul-ture and the relationship between different ethnic culture, and other national culture on his contemporary writers Minority, the cultural identity has a direct effect on the artist's aesthetic orientation.In terms of cultural identity, Yunnan Ethnic Literature is divided into two per-iods:the period of seventeen years and 80 years of literature, which has different ex-pression in cultural identity. Ethnic literature in the period of seventeen years shows the main refuge of Creation mainstream political discourse, but after the period of 80 years, Yunnan it has shown the trends of localization and begins the process of explo-ration. From the aspect of aesthetic orientation, cultural identity mainly contains ecol-ogical beauty, beauty of language, mixed mood in Ethnic Literature and distinctive aesthetic qualities; based on the background of post-modern perspective of Yunnan Ethnic Literature, ethnic Literature reflects some problems about cultural identity, the narrative position of modernity, social aesthetic criteria standards that some ethnic writers adopts and cultural identity becoming simple and absolute. Positive cultural identity and the aesthetic orientation of Yunnan Ethnic Literature is an important mean of developing Yunnan Ethnic Literature, on the other hand, Yunnan Ethnic Literature has become an inseparable part for the development of Chinese literature.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yunnan, Ethnic Literature, Cultural Identity, Aesthetic orientation
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