A Research On “Localization” Of War Novels On Resistance Against Aggression In Singapore And Malaysia

This article made “localization” as an entry-point to distinguish localization from“Chinese characteristic ”and “national characteristic”.Research the war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia from the aspect of local character,local language and mentality,seek the “localization” at different historical stage of war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese Language in Singapore and Malaysia,then excavate the significance and connotation from their relations.As the complexity of “localization”,this concept becomes an important factor in the evolution in Singapore and Malaysia literature in Chinese language,since the war novels resistance aggression relate to the sensitive factors on identity,race and politics,which results in more expressions and influences of“localization”,and also makes the connotation of “localization” more complicated as the relations on “localization”,Chinese characteristic and national characteristic.With the development of the war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia in the decades years,the “localization” attains an unique style with the transformation of historical background,changes in literature circles and switch of Chinese-Singapore and Chinese Malaysia treatment.The war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia commence an undertaking under the influence of China’s Sino-Japanese war novels in the 1930’,while the war of resistance against aggression burst,numerous Chinese writers went southward to Singapore and Malaysia to be the main force of creating war novels of resistance against aggression.At that time thosenovels paid more attention on efficiencies,aimed to affiliate China’s war of resistance,although there was appealing for “Malaysian literature in Chinese language”,thick Chinese consciousness covered on it,underlying “localization” lurked in that historical period of the war novels on resistance of aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia.After the Second World War,Chinese-Singapore and Chinese Malaysia had got the idea of striking roots,however,the Singapore and Malaysia society produced a series of strict policies to squeeze the living space,addition to the resolution of dual nationality for ethnic Chinese,which made these ethnic Chinese began to think about the issue of their identities.The ethnic Chinese writers tended to create locally,to seek the expressions of “local language”,while influenced by the reality,ethnic Chinese writers still had unsteady mind,looking for“localization” while retrospecting Chinese characteristic,as a result their works represented an entanglement between “localization” and Chinese characteristic.China has established diplomatic relations with Malaysia and Singapore successively since1980’s,the status of Chinese-Singapore and Chinese-Malaysia has enhanced gradually,the new generation writers became the main force of war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia.Their growth and education background are different from predecessors,which lead them escape from existing anti-war novel writing mode,reviewing and retrospecting history,feeling people’s spiritual world,promote the development of “localization” in depth,therefore,“localization” has gotten rid of the former imprisonment.“Localization” in different period has evolving into various aspects for the war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia.Its evolution is the significance that the war novels on resistance against aggression in Chinese language in Singapore and Malaysia distinguish the Chinese mainland anti-war novels,which is also an essential condition for the independence of Chinese novels in Singapore and Malaysia.