The Analysis Of Ban Ma’s Works Of Fantasy In The Perspective Of Ecological Criticism

In the eighties of last century, Ban Ma broke into children literature world by virtue of his extraordinary artistic talent,known as a wizard in this field. His works of fantasy range from "nature"to "myth"to "phantom"to"ecological circle", which is forming his own exclusive style of selected topic scope, meaning and writing manifestation.Therefore, In accordance with the trichotomy of ecology initiated by Lu Shu, this thesis attempts to explore the ecological representation of Ban Ma’s works of fantasy from the perspective of natural ecology, spiritual ecology and social ecology of ecological criticism."Enchantment "is what Ban Ma fantastic works embody in the natural ecology. The deification of natural existence and psychic animals constitute the charm of the green witch fantastic kingdom It combines with invisible intelligent beings,called natural enchantmentso as to restore the magic and sacred power of nature and its potential aesthetic.The wizards in The Wizard’s wreckare wise men knowing the ecological wisdom of ancient times. Nature in their eyes is a living substance with souls which is an affirmation to the "intrinsic value "of nature.They place themselves among the entire ecosystem. From the deep point of ecology, it is a self realization of ecology. Nevertheless, the enchantment in Ban Ma works finally points to a new relationship between man and nature-a harmonious and friendly relationship among subjects.Spiritual ecology focuses on the existing conditions of subject spiritual life. In Ban Ma’s works, the spiritual ecology in childhood is interpreted as "the power of wild", which reflects children hyperspace imagination playing in their chaos and spacious mental space, the wild way of thinking consisting of animistic mind and primitive experience and embodies the conflict and balance when spiritual condition interacts with external environment during the trial of strength in childhood and the spiritual watching and regression to home. All of these are the ideal child mental quality in Ban Ma’s mind.Social ecology is the study of human society and the mutual relations and laws of function of its environment The social and ecological concerns in Ban Ma’s works of fantasy present more the author’s reflection on modern civilization and the imagination and expectations of the harmonious, quaint and Utopian-alike social environment.Social ecology mainly researches on the human relations. Among them, the specialrelationship between uncle-type characters and children is relatively barmoniousand has expressed an ideal relation between these two groups in the view of Ban Ma.