Study On Folk Character's Identity Predicament In Li Rui's Novels

Since the publication of Li Rui's short stories--- Thick Earth, it quickly attracted a lot of attention and comments in Chinese Literary World. With the process of globalization, the revival of nationalism, rights appeal from the ethnic minorities and vulnerable groups in multi-ethnic country, and combined with other factors are driving the growing prosperity of identity research. In the thesis, Li Rui's novels are interpreted by identity research theory especially taking the folk character recognition as a breakthrough point. In this way, the obscure judgment standards from essential ism in the past century revolutionary history can be clearly and profoundly understood. Also the China's complicated social conditions will be clearly mapped by the collisions between the relatively closed domestic development and globalization.This thesis is divided into four parts. The first part illustrates Li Rui's novels from the perspective of classes and strata, a lot of attention is given to the revolutionary intellectuals and peasants' identity dilemma. The second part takes the angle of of gender and human body, mainly about the identity dilemma of women and the disabled in Li Rui's novels.The third part explores the civil people's identity dilemma from the perspective of faith, such as the identity collision between traditional folk beliefs and political beliefs, the collision between traditional folk beliefs and foreign religious faith. The fourth part illustrates revolutionaries and ordinary people's identity dilemma from the perspective of race and ethnic-nation. According to the analysis of these folk figures' identity dilemma, Li Rui is trying to refute the clear concepts and categories of identity dilemma in essential ism sense.