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Home Construction And Spiritual Return

Posted on:2019-11-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P Z YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330545480658Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Home as living place where is certain irreplaceable for human survival,it is not only the place where people live,but also where the spirit goes.Toni Morrison and Yan Lianke are writers in different cultural environments,and their novel creation is based on their own cultural genes and presents corresponding differences.Through their works we can find both,however,their writing in the edge of the outside of the mainstream culture,and the characters of borderline stems mainly from heterogeneity of and reactivity of their bodies in the strong discourse structure.Morrison's The paradise and Yan Lianke's Lenin's Kisses are respectively writing the process of black and disabled's pursue the ideal living space,this paper starts with the body narration and space narration of Morrison's The paradise and Yan Lianke's Lenin's Kisses,to explore people seek for their homes in the foreign culture,the choice of the existence state of the body to the space residence,in the meantime,it permeates the common influence of social history,cultural tradition,thinking and other factors.In this sense,the search for home of black and disabled is no longer limited to the context of the text,their siege and struggles in social change and cultural environment be a universal human condition.Their itinerant,mutating and uneasiness in their homelands reflects the search and speculation of the spiritual home in which different groups of people share common sense.This thesis is divided into five parts: The first part is the introduction,based on the brief introduction of the life and works of Morrison and Yan Lianke,through the elaboration of the theme of homeland in Chinese and foreign literary works to illustrate the common theme architecture of the two novels;In the second part,the author makes an analogy analysis of the opposition and entanglement of characters in two novels from the perspective of body narration.It reveals the important role of the body in constructing group memory and living space selection.The third part,based on the second part,it explores the dynamic generation process of group living space in the collision of social consciousness.The fourth part mainly through two authors in the narrative structure of the work to present the black paradise and the disabled utopia to establish the power discourse struggle,the search for home from different groups of people to the common sense of the spiritual home and the pursuit of the spiritual home.The fifth part separately from the subjectivity of the debugging,the manipulation of ideology,culture and so on in the two novels,character set up by analyzing the reasons for being difficult,to explore under the heterogeneous culture common orientation to men seek spiritual end-result.
Keywords/Search Tags:The paradise, Lenin's Kisses, body, space, home topic
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