Survival Of The Weight And The Dimension Of Human Nature

Yan Geling is a female writer trekking in the borderland of the Chinese and western culture. Her works have rich connotation of modernity, and contain the writer’s cognition of the relations of "existence" and "humanity",and also express her wishes and expectations of human.The main places where Yan’s solicitude for life emerges are the two "narrative complexes":the "ultra-Left" era and "immigration".This thesis is divided into two parts, with the "ultra-Left" time and "immigration" as the longitude,"existence and humanity" the latitude, in order to show Yan’s thinking of "human"With the "ultra-Left" era being the background of analysis,the first part tries to explore the immanent correlations,in her works, between material deprivation and humanity derailment, the contemporary ideal and individual life, the special era and ethnic roots.In the hopeless dilemma, the foundation of people’s survival crumbled, the consideration for individual life was exhausted and excluded, the ethnic inferior roots wantonly expanded, hence the humanity gradually withered.But the writer also points out the humanity-degeneration-rescuing way, that human’s development should head for the folk,original, and pure nature.Only in this way can we restore the strong vitality and make ourselves better.The second part,with "immigration" as the background, reveals the deep relations between the difficult life overseas,the East-West cultural estrangements and the humanity lost, points out that from the angle of contradiction of national existence and sentiment, Yan devoted herself to the rectification of the early Chinese immigrants’ images.Meanwhile, she focuses her attention on the ancient oriental conservative quality, and find the breakthrough way in alien living dilemma.There is a line in Yan’s "narrative complexes".From the analysis of human’s existence dilemma,she is always seeking the value of existence,and searching for healthy,ideal human existence way in the borderland from the contemporary mainstream culture.The continuous thinking, exploring, and seeking for "human" constitute her works’ unique humane care.