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In An Age Of Otherness Build Self

Posted on:2013-12-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S B WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330377451362Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Yangeling as the most powerful Chinese-American writer in the new literature of immigration in recent years, creation after another wonderful.The works of Yangeling have been translated into various languages, caused great repercussions at home and abroad. Many of her works have invested a lot of efforts on cultural identity issues. She has a strong consciousness of cultural identity construction of awareness and a strong and profound sense of national culture, her cultural identity is placed in the context of globalization to explore the cultural conflict between East and West, Oriental internal cultural exchange between nations, thus speaking of self cultural identity.This thesis is from the post-colonial cultural studies point of view, system structured and commented trends of work over the past decade, trying to explore the Trends gradually construct the unique cultural identity, this perspective the significance and status of overseas Chinese literary world and the whole Chinese contemporary literary. The object of this study is the creation of all kinds of different cultures lengthy short works, the normative framework in the backdrop of the New Overseas Chinese literature.Introduction to the main objective of this paper to solve the problem:how to build self-Eastern cultural identity in his era? The first and second chapters overall, showing the structure of the internal logic of progressive, text reading the works of the three stages, later by colonialism, cultural theory, to express cultural identity in his works and how to gradually establish and construct the.The first chapter from the theory of the "other", and tap each other’s "other" form of specific performance in cross-cultural writing of East and West, to explore the construct of self-identity among the cross-cultural way of "breaking down" from the negative side. The second chapter attempts to undertake the first chapter, using the "up" from both sides continue to further build cultural identity. Established from different cultures, the search for identity, deconstruction,"He" to return to the mother culture of self and cultural identity, reflects shift in the direction of cultural identity construction. Continue in the third chapter from the perspective of the "standing" cultural identity is the idea, established by the "cultural identity" in the Third World nation-state within the development, interpretation of the national story in the Third World internal Eastern countries "cultural identity" from the front to write the coexistence of different national and cultural differences and integration, and the construction of a third space in a Multicultural Context of Globalization. Epilogue:Generally contribution to the study of cultural identity and shortcomings.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yangeling, Cultural identity, Otherness, Confucian culture, Orientalism
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