The Lose And Recall Of Homeland

Yan Geling is a creative female writer, who has higher achievement during the newfemale immigrant writers. In the book Course about history of Chinese contemporaryliterature which edited by Chen Sihe, he said:90Years later, Yan Geling is the indubitablerepresentative of overseas topics creation. In the past ten years, literary world has payedmore attention about her and done more research about her works. In2012, the researchabout Yan Geling rose sharply and this is interrelated with the film "the flowers of war",which is directed by Zhang Yimou. The film makes screenwriter stand up in front ofaudience and well known. Her novels strip out cramped, empirical expression andnostalgia emotional rendering in "student-studying-abroad literature" in the nineteen fiftiesand sixties that is represented by Nie Hualin, Chen Ruoxi and Bai Xianyong. What’s more,her novels touch humanity deeply and describe an ideal homeland in her spiritual world.The paper is based on the imaginary homeland which is narrated in Yan Geling’snovels. Her creation is divided into immigrant narratives and homeland narratives. Inimmigrant narratives the homeland in her text is the product of second imagination when YanGeling is creating and it’s Yan Geling’s imagination to tipical China and Chinese national inwesterners’ imagination. The homeland would be seen by reconstructing immigrants’ life andin doing so she has discovered that China is unhealthy in many western eyes. In these twocultures, Chinese culture and western culture, Yan Geling, as a Chinese From the mainland tosettle in San Francisco, began to have suspicions of her country and her fellow men, as well asthe homeland. Thus, the Chinese traditional values emerged uncertainty. To the end, resistingor fusing western values, Yan Geling presented her position in homeland narratives: her ownfellow men have simple human nature, even though the homeland is her imagination. Theauthor placed her fellow men beautiful image: they own ideal life posture and respect themost essential life. These come from her great confidence after rising from the ashes. Theauthor built and recalled the homeland through the imagination.