The Narrative Analysis Of Yan Geling’s Novels After Immigration

As an American citizen of Chinese origin, the writer Yan Geling has created many famous fictions in the nearly30years. She won so many awards that attracted wide public attention at home and abroad. Yan Geling always explored narrative form and content in her writings, and she has achieved great success in the narrative art.The first part of this thesis analyses the narrative theme in Yan’s novels. In her Cultural Revolution novels and emigration novels, Yan didn’t only focus on the difficult situation and the struggles of the characters, but also expressed a special thought in humanity.The second chapter discusses the influence of the western narrative theories on Yan’s novels. In her novels, the polyphony is throughout the narrative. The first is the polyphony of narrative space, in which the author puts many characters in the eastern and Western spaces at the same time. Followed by the polyphony of narrative perspective, Yan Geling is good at changing her narrative perspectives from the first person to the second person and to the third person. Her novels are not single narrative perspective and have a wider field of vision and sufficient breadth and depth. The third is the polyphony of narrative structure. In the" White Snake", Yan Geling has described a legendary gay story with a unique narrative strategy in which she adopted official version, folk version and unknown version at the same time and made a multiple structure.The third chapter discusses the narrative strategy. In many of her novels, Yan chooses the weak and marginal man as the character, expressing her humanistic care on them. And she takes the narrative strategy of intersecting story lines. The narrative techniques are also important in her narrative strategy.The forth chapter discusses the narrative techniques, In her novels, Yan Geling combines the legend and the reality and creates some specific images with lofty narrative techniques.Yan Geling has achieved great success in many aspects of novel-writing, and the excellent exploration in novel narrative has indicated her creative talent undoubtedly.