Study On The Rover Images In The Fictions Of The New Period

Since the year of 1978, many authors create a variety of Rover images, includes the exiled rightists, international students and emigrations, rural migrant farmers. The Rovers’unique life and wandering experiences outline the Chinese spiritual path and social process in the new period. As the inheritance of the Rover images which firstly appeared in the modern literature, the Rover images in the new period fictions has a new change, shows more rich meaning. Based on the background of Rover images, combining with the specific work, this article probes into the value of wandering and the meaning of images, and focus its research on the latter.The first part of this article introduces cultural context of the Rover images, explains the time background of the Rover images in the new period fictions and influence of modernity. This part also defines the meaning of wandering, including space migration, the spirit of the stray, the cognition of life. The Rover images are people who are wandering due to survive change, or caught in the culture crack and produce a wandering spirit. Studying the development history of Rover images in Chinese literature, this part introduces the time background of Rover images in the new period. The second part analyzes the types of Rover images, based on the different reasons of wandering, the Rover images are divided into three types, including the migrant workers on the edge of cities, international students in the cracks between eastern and western culture and emigrations. The types show the hard life of Rover images’life. The third part analyzes the influence of wandering, poor material life and the loss of individuality show the Rovers’survival dilemma and psychological experience of rootless. The clash among different civilizations shows identity confusion and efforts of Rover images to seek identity. The authors care the injured souls, not only comfort the lonely hearts with emotional way but also praise the strong life will of Rovers. In the new period fictions, authors look to invest in the creation of history, which presents the rover images with family history, bursts personal emotion in the process of creation.