Between Nationality And Modernity

Alai is Jiarong Tibetans, his hometown of Jiarong Tibetan inhabited area is located in the boundary between Sichuan and Tibet, belongs to the mixed transitional zone of Tibetan and Han,Qiang, Hui and other ethnic groups. Tibetan oral folk myths and legends cultivated Alai's original sensitive to literature, and lay the national base of Alai's writing.The transitional location determines the cultural hybridity of the Jiarong Tibetan, it origins in Tibetan culture while at the same time by the influence of Han, Qiang, Hui and other ethnic culture, especially culture the impact of the Han is the most significant and obvious, relative to the center of the Tibetan culture, The openness of Jiarong Tibetan culture makes it more influenced by modernity. Therefore, the author thinks the Alai's writing dives nationality and modernity of the dual characteristics, both of them like bird's wings, forming Alai's novels unique aesthetic dimension. However in some extent there is a mutual conflict and contradiction between nationality and modernity, how to make the Jiarong Tibetan people enjoy the convenience of modernity and at the same time avoid the disadvantages of it, how to maintain the uniqueness of the national culture and avoid subjected to the impact of modernity or assimilation is the major problem that plagued Alai, also contributed to the writer Alai contradiction of anxiety, contributed to the expression of unique anxiety between modernity and nationality in Alai's novels. This paper is focused on Alai's novels in the national,modern phenomenon and contradiction of anxiety, it is divided into introduction, body and conclusion of three parts, specific contents are as follows:Introduction: the research background, research status of Alai's novels, the starting point and the significance of this thesis.The first chapter: the national connotation and reflection of Alai's novels. There are displays of ancestor worship, nature worship and hero worship f Jiarong Tibetan deep cultural psychology In Alai's novels, and the reflections of the "empty" way of thinking,concrete way of thinking, emotional thinking which are unique ways of thingking modes of Jiarong Tibetan. they constitute the foundation for the nationality of Alai's novels, the Alai's novels reveal the characteristics of Jiarong Tibetan nationality.The second chapter: the connotation and reflection of modernity in Alai's novels. In addition to the Jiarong Tibetan nationality, with the immersion of the modern factors, the Jiarong Tibetan society in Alai's novels, also presents modern characteristics embodied in many aspects such as social form, concept system and the concept of belief. Writer Alai through the descriptionl of the "point" in modernity realize the presentation of "face", not only received the effect of woodcarvings, fan out from point to area, modern surfaces of Jiarong Tibetan society have therefore been full range expose.The third chapter: the expression of anxiety between nationality and modernity and the exploration. The contradiction and conflict between the nationality and modernity contributed to the unique expression of anxiety in Alai's novels. Walking between modernity and nationality, the anxiety of the conflicts among characters, the contradictory subjects about walking and wandering, and numerous disappearing of "last" phenomenon are the writer Alai's unique anxiety expression in texts. In addition, this chapter also discusses the reasons behind the contradiction of the phenomenon of anxiety.Conclusion: to sum up and evaluate the national character, modernity and the contradiction of anxiety in ALai's novels, pointed out that the positive direction and significance of the contradiction of anxiety. Paradoxical anxiety shows ALai the courage of faceing on the problems, and it is the first essential step to seek solutions, so it is with positive meaning and direction.