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Family Narrative Of The New Literature Of Immigration In North America

Posted on:2013-02-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371491162Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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China’s reform and opening up three decades, globalization, advances in threedecades, North America’s new immigrant literature by hidden to emerge across thethree decades. From the early Su Wei Zha Jianying, Reed, Cao Guilin to the midTreats, Zhang Ling, Lu Xinhua, Chen River, Shao Jun, Chen Qian, and then thenew generation of Yu Xiu, Wang Rui, whether from they have created the theme,the mentality of expression and narrative skills, language style, cultural identity,has a new quality of the presentation. The subject and the object of their novels,one associated with the quality of the performance of the continuous explorationand mining of the family narrative, and creative practice of this great familycharacteristics, of their own cultural identity, doubts and answers. Through itsrepresentation of the text read, grasp the overall context of globalization, newimmigrant writers in different periods of cross-border writing features at the sametime, reveal the lives of new immigrants from the perspective of the culturalidentity of the relocated process reflects the cultural connotations. North Americannew immigrant literature boarded the Chinese literature of the stage with its uniquecultural identity is closely linked to the manner of Chinese writing. The one hand,the survival status of their immigration across identity with discrete; the other hand,the contact with different cultures, collision and fusion, but also to force them tothink about their own cultural identity. Contradictions role of identity in narrative,their narrative is a discrete narrative, but also the narrative of the cultural identity ismirrored the narrative of a generation of experience with multiple idea of nationalallegory, literary, metaphorical and symbolic.Narrative in the new literature of immigration in North America, since thesince the onset of a pluralistic narrative stance, demonstrating a longing look backto the hometown of new immigrants in a foreign country, suffered the ups anddowns of life, the complexity and hardship of the heart, in order tosurvival buthave indomitable fighting spirit, the survival of the imprint, the like of my own lifebiography, deeply branded in the text inside. To mid-Ling, Treats pen full of the historical imagination of the mother country, which does not reflect on anddemonstrate the social and historical diversity and complexity of its transcendentheavy thinking, family characteristics and accompanied by the identity leaving textrendering increasingly complex and contradictory. Since the new century, theworks of young writers Yu Xiu, showing a world vision quest, it seems that theireyes beyond racial and national boundaries, trying to reflect on human nature inthe sense beyond the group. the text rendering is a manifestation of deepening theprocess of globalization, in fact, the same "cultural China" and the family narrative,but their family narrative is relatively concealed nothing.Overall, North American immigrant literature is a continuous process toexplore and pursue the narrative of the family has gone through from a pure culturefree to subtle cultural adaptation, reflection, with its traditions, to the pursuit of aworld vision process.
Keywords/Search Tags:North American new immigrant literature, ethnicity, ethnicitynarrative, discre
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