Celeste Ng’s Literature World

Celeste Ng,whose Chinese name is Wu Qishi,is a female Chinese-American writer.Her debut Everything I Never Told You and second novel Little Fires Everywhere have attracted much attention since their publication.Her two novels include multiple themes,such as female living condition,ethnic identity as well as a lack of communication,which offers possibility for probing into her works from many lights and perspectives.Space imagery that projects subjective emotion,and carries different world values and writer’s personal attitudes recur frequently in the works and present “the past” and“the present”,“there” and “here” in front of readers,which breaks time series,and more importantly stresses the effect of space.In reality,space imagery is a typical technique of spatial narrative and often applied to plot development,characterization and created literature world by many contemporary writers.The thesis mainly analyzes space imagery in Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere,with a view to studying Celeste Ng’s unique literature world.Macroscopic space imagery attaches importance to communication and significance to“little fires” standing for freedom,dreams and justice in every person’s heart.Microscopic space imagery consisting of road,house,kitchen,school along with corner also loads diverse connotations.Road can be a window of being watched.In addition,it can transform the destiny of characters.House and kitchen show different individual states,free or trapped,rebellious or compliant.School displays representation of power relation.Corner demonstrates the yearning and appeal of the disadvantaged group like homosexual persons.Macroscopic space imagery and microscopic space imagery carry some certain connotations,be involved in narrative process as well as characterization,and propel plot development,through which Celeste Ng creates her unique literature world.In her literature world,Celeste Ng shows her concern for female living condition.They are constantly in a dilemma between an independent professional woman and a responsible housewife.Besides,Celeste Ng appeals to respect and understanding of the public to homosexual group,more vitally,a better communication between each other.Meanwhile Ng also criticizes severely racial prejudice in American world.