Yan Geling's Diaspora Writing

The word Diaspora is not only a mirror of Yan Geling's normal life,but also an important feature of her creation.It comes from English vocabulary.The semantic coverage of Diaspora has been expanded unceasingly since it appeared.It particularly meant the Jews' living situation of destitute and homeless at first.And now,it is used to describe practical experience of diaspora,illustrate the cultural characteristics of Diaspora,refer to a diaspora group,as well as explore the community's inner feelings that they go far away from their native country or their culture origin.Yan Geling's experience is a typical diaspora.She was born in Chinese Mainland,and settled in the United States more than 10 years,then she followed her husband to Nigeria,later settled in Berlin.She constantly arrived and departed among China and these countries,which keeps her in a diaspora state of life.Her peculiar diaspora experience which influences her life a lot is also cast onto her creation.Yan Geling changes her real diaspora experience into a kind of first-hand material for writing.And her novels' theme is focused on immigration rather than domestic military.In diaspora,Yan Geling acquires the value of different languages,realizes females' difficult life,which are both reflected in many of her works.Under multicultural cultures,Yan Geling obtains a multiple perspective.So,Yan Geling can write the history stories of her motherland with a relatively objective and sober style.Many things cause Yan Geling to start her diaspora writing,but her own life experience and the multiple perspective that her diaspora experience brings about can be taken for the most direct and the most important reason.Long-term diaspora life keeps Yan Geling a state of drift,lets her life and culture multinational,which inspire her writing desire a lot.Yan Geling owes a multiple perspective from the dissemination by foreign cultures and traditional culture,including the unique perspective to observe her nation.Then,Yan Geling write down her experience and comprehension as a diaspora person living in the "cultural gap" with her pen.Yan Geling's diaspora life brings her new opportunities and makes her works reach a new height.But it also brings her limitations.The distance between Yan Geling and her motherland makes Yan Geling go far away from the current life of her motherland.The main performances are followings: she can not precisly realize mainly current life in her motherland,she is unfamiliar to daily living environment of motherland,she depicts Female image lack of appeal as well.Yan Geling has adopted corresponding responses,such as doing a lot of researches and investigations before writing,using complex narrative techniques,etc.But such novels are still slightly inferior compared with her early works.How to better balance the relationship between the diaspora experience and local experience is a problem for Yan Geling,other diaspora writers and even the whole Chinese literature and all researches to ponder and face earnestly.