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On The Children Narrative In The Cultural Revolution Novels Of New Immigrant Writers

Posted on:2015-12-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L HeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330467451448Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Throughout10years, the Cultural Revolution was a catastrophe to the national state. Historical narrative by New immigrant writers, who experienced and survived that period, is not only a big part of their works, but also has a great impact. Retrospect of Cultural Revolution makes the inexhaustible resource of their creation and writing. It’s worth noting that Novels talk with children’s narrative stand out extraordinarily within those narratives about the Cultural Revolution.This kind of novel ways back to childhood memory before and within the period of Cultural Revolution, which means that the main narrative models used by the creation subjects have many similarities. Ignoring places the authors live in, this paper only analyzes on this type of fiction using narrative ways. I hope this could help us figure out some of the common spiritual meaning behind the text.Firstly, starting from the the generation’s memories of the Cultural Revolution, the essay searches for clues of new immigrant writers’childhood memories from essays, interviews and fictions on the foundation of restoring the true scene of Cultural Revolution that children have experienced. The main way of expressing childhood memories is children’s narrative, which is different from the adult’s narrative and the usual "children’s literature" as we knew in the dimension of ethics and narrative and then, lays it on the table with the techniques and features in a simple children’s narrative. After that, it analyses the roles of children’s narrative plays in the fictions, as well as what an effect children’s anger of view makes on the narrative of Cultural Revolution novels. Based on this, this paper have a further discussion on the multi-layered narrative ways alternating children and adults ones. Novels narrative events in multi-angles, and the difference between the adult narrators’ attitudes and the child narrators’ones impacts on the of narratives of the whole stories. All these constructed possibilities of expression of texts in varieties of directions, forming a tension inside the narrative. Alternatives of adult and children’s view consist comparing and mirror structures of texts, finally aiming to their cure functions. Instead of external injuries, the diseases result from the relief of evil elements including deformity, gloom and cruelty in the cockles of the heart, which become creator of a bad precedent. When analyzing texts of the world and The third kind of desire, we find that texts cures psychological diseases depending on the western civilization.Finally, this paper focuses on revealing the spiritual world behind the children’s narrative of new immigrant writers in Cultural Revolution novels. By analyzing the images about father-complex and father-seek children, we can obviously see that new immigrant writers are seeking their dependence. Due to nostalgic psychology for one reason, as well as quest of self-identification, new immigrant writers create their own schema of childhood-hometown. Looking back on their childhood and hometown through their double culture identifications, new immigrant writers form not only self-criticism and introspection, but also seeking-communication Cultural Revolution novels, making the text show a unique ethos and aesthetic character.
Keywords/Search Tags:new immigrant writer, Cultural Revolution novel, children’s narrative
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