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On The Middle Class Writing Of New Immigrant Writers

Posted on:2019-05-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S R ZengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330563959438Subject:Chinese Language and Literature
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Chen Qian is one of the new immigrant writers who are now playing a strong role.She is a typical middle-class writer who focuses on the new immigrant middle-class knowledge woman as the performance object of the novel and the most consciously telling the story of the middle class.The reason why new immigrant writers can enter the ranks of the American middle class cannot be separated from the transformation of American policy and the improvement of the survival situation of ethnic minorities.The process of cultural conflict and cultural adaptation has been greatly shortened.New immigrant groups aim to “take root” and get rid of the “marginal” mentality of early immigration,“seeking roots” in “naturalization”,holding self-confidence and positive attitude.Actively integrate into American society.People think about life after they are full and warm.At the same time,the new immigrant literature returns to the literature itself from the early release of personal emotional experience.Chen Qian,a middle-class writer,has concentrated on portraying the image of a group of new immigrant middle-class intellectual women.Most of them work in the Silicon Valley,one of the world's top technology centers.They use their own “professional” elite education to serve the society and integrate it into mainstream American society..They are economic groups with a certain economic status in the United States.Different life opportunities,different statuses,occupations,and income constitute different spiritual worlds and dilemmas of survival.They have the consciousness of women's subjective consciousness,dare to break the shackles and rules of traditional ethical concepts,and dare to carry out the search for individual souls and spirits at high levels,constantly chasing and realizing higher self-worth.In general,Chen Qian's novels model a group of middle-aged successful female images that escape the need for survival.The subject pursues high-level emotional needs and spiritual experiences that go to ideology.Chen Qian abandoned the "first Twenty miles " of the process of survival,the investment is "the spiritual pursuit of the last eighty miles",using the work to express the gender anxiety,Cultural Revolution,or "running away" of new immigrant professional women in the United States.Dilemma.Although the middle class writing in the context of consumption era is extremely easy to materialize and desire,Chen Qian's writing has a consciously critical spirit.Through the inner focus of the middle class characters,we explore the prevailing predicament of human beings and hold onto them.Chen Qian holds on to the writer's literary narrative bottom line.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chen Qian, middle class, feminism
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