Marginal Men Identity With Novel Creation Of Bai Xianyong

As an important author of Chinese literary scene, Bai Xianyong is also a representation ofthe modernist fiction in Taiwan. Bai Xianyong has36short stories and one river novel. Hisnovels were small in quantity, but arouse extensive attention in the literary criticism circle andthe readers. Because historical consciousness, humane Care and writing technique. As a marginalmen in multidimensional, he keenly felt pain. His writing has many things to do with marginalmen. The paper with the thread of marginal men, probe the subtle relation of marginal men andhis novels. Try to show Bai Xianyong’s mixed feelings and ideological connotations. In the lightof theme and writing period, the paper divides into four parts.The first part of the paper analysis the relationship between his feeling marginal and thenovel collection Lonely Seventeen. Bai Xianyong’s childhood was in quarantine for four years,because phthisis. This experience made he had great changes in character and philosophy. Heturned to diffidence and sensitive. In the novel collection Lonely Seventeen, he describes thepitiful people who were lost love. The tendency response his lose in emotion, which fix the tragickey in his writing.The second parts of the paper probe his culture marginal identity, and the culture marginalidentity the novel collection The New Yorker. Bai Xianyong becomes culture marginal identitybecause of Study abroad. The novel collection The New Yorker mirrors his difficult in cultureidentity. In The novel collection The New Yorker, there are many culture marginal characters,which are the response of author’s identity anxiety. As a person who really lost his hometown,Bai Xianyong can not know where his hometown is. So he put the nostalgia into his Chinesememories and traditional culture, which in the spirit level.The third parts of the paper analysis politics marginal identity and the novel collectionTaipei People. In his childhood, he went to Taipei with his family. Bai Xianyong has politicsmarginal identity. He use novels to realize right of speech. In the novel collection Taipei People,there are lose dreams and loves, passing times and honor. Taipei People have no tomorrow,which showed Bai Xianyong’s desperation. The fourth parts of the paper analysis as a homosexual Bai Xianyong write the river novelCrystal Boys. As a homosexual Bai Xianyong is marginal identity in morality both in the Eastand the West. Crystal Boys show the life of homosexual in Taipei1970s.The homosexual in therehave very difficult life both in spiritual and materially. They were banished and seek for the rootat same time. They mirror the oscillator and bewilderedness in his heart. Bai Xianyong confidesthe pain in his heart to readers in Crystal Boys.