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On The Migrant Novels Of Yan Geling Identity

Posted on:2013-04-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Y WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374974786Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Immigration issues of identity in contemporary cultural discourses is an attractive issuein western culture, the dominant position that all non-Western cultures has become a weakculture, deconstruction in the shake western traditional subject hegemony, marginalizedgroups and find their own cultural identity. Because of this, search for cultural identity, toestablish the identity of overseas Chinese and is facing the urgent need to solve the problem.Yan Geling’s migration in the overseas hard living environment is also faced with theconcussion of identity anxiety, how they in a heterogeneous cultural context to find theiridentity became the primary difficulties immigrants. Yan Geling’s immigration first faces thesurvival crisis, after temporal variation after their heart bear exotic and loneliness, and thelanguage barrier caused the barriers to communication, so that immigrants face a huge crisisof identity.In addition, the authors bring immigrants placed in the East-West contexts examines,through cultural exclusion and attract each other to show migration in a foreign state ofsurvival, to the identity as the breakthrough point, through cultural, gender, national threeaspects in the novels of Yan Geling immigrant identity, borrow the Greimas" symbolic matrixtheory" in Yan Geling’s novel immigration classification, discusses various types ofmigration in heterogeneous culture strong resistance and struggle under siege.Migration in China contemporary literature is an important issue, either the students orthe literature of new immigrants literature reflects the process of China’s modernization,migration was a movement of Yan Geling’s early writing, backtracking, can also be found,migration of subject matter is not Yan Geling go abroad after the start of theme, such as"educated youth Hill go to the countryside" in the" female grass"," Tianyu" are embodied inthe. The cultural revolution is a special political movement, the movement for the numerousyouth caused an indelible memory, they from city to rural, identity is facing enormous change,face this kind of predicament they eager to escape the country back to the city. Population migration issues of identity in the present also has a lot of, this kind ofcreation" country people into the city" theme to make outstanding, they did not like YanGeling ’s immigrants across national boundaries but still experiencing the pain of migration,though located in different areas, but also face the dilemmas of identity and crisis of survival.Yan Geling on the theme of contemporary writers and migration of rural peopleconcerns embodiments of a creator of thoughts on life and on the status of the attention, forthe development of contemporary Chinese literature into the fresh blood, expands the newspace.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yan Geling, Immigration, Identity, Gender
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