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Imagination Of Shanghai In Daily Life

Posted on:2021-04-05Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y HuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2435330623470747Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Shanghai is a typical immigrant city.Wang Anyi paid special attention to immigrant groups in his creation.In her Shanghai writing,immigrants have made important contributions to urban development.Wang Anyi portrayed various immigrant images.Readers feel the cultural core and spirit of the city of Shanghai in the daily life of immigrants.The first chapter "Daily Immigration Narrative Perspective" is mainly to discuss the formation of Wang Anyi's daily immigration narrative perspective by using Wang Anyi's description of immigration situation.Wang Anyi pays close attention to the immigrants at the bottom.She has a high degree of humanism and has formed a daily ethical narrative for the bottom.Her immigration writing has undergone a spatial transition from the city center to the marginal areas,expanding the scope of the city.As an "outsider" in the city,she experienced the separation from the city from urination,has anxiety about living space,and has a strong sense of identity with immigrant groups.In Wang Anyi's view,history is everyday and civilian,so she pays special attention to the daily writing of immigrants.She goes deep into the texture of life,recording the worldly and cleverness.Day after day,every bit of trivial and meticulous daily life,together form a group portrait of immigrants in Shanghai.The second chapter,"Shanghai Daily in the Confrontation between Modernity and Tradition",discusses the daily life of immigrants living in cities written by Wang Anyi.Faced with the modernization of the city,they cannot adapt,and have always been separated from the city.The destiny of wandering for life and the rootless melancholy made them unable to integrate into the city.Their survival situation is also a microcosm of the city of Shanghai.Wang Anyi tried to further understand Shanghai through the eyes of immigrants.Wang Anyi reflected on the contradiction between modern civilization and traditional culture in the process of urban development,and considered the psychological changes of immigrants,showing the daily life and urban connotation of immigrants in many ways.Shanghai's rapid development in the process of modernization relies on the wisdom and hard work of generations of immigrants.Their relationship with cities has turned from confrontation to integration.Immigrants have also drifted away and found a spiritual return.Wang Anyi took the stories of several immigrant families as the epitome of urban development and witnessed the development history of Shanghai,a modern metropolis.The third chapter,"Utopian Watch in Daily Life",mainly discusses the classical Shanghai spiritual imagination in the daily life of immigrants.Wang Anyi constructed a poetic life aesthetic in the trivial and pragmatic daily life of immigrants.She is looking for a bland,quiet,and affluent lifestyle.Wang Anyi wanted to use her rural idyllic utopian imagination tofight against the modern civilization of the city.She uses the beautiful and ideal qualities of immigrants to enrich the Shanghai spirit,and builds the imagination of Shanghai's urban space in the daily life of immigrants.The simple vitality of the immigrants brought some tradition and tenacity to the city of Shanghai,which constituted Wang Anyi's utopian watch on the spirit of Shanghai.The concluding part gives a comprehensive overview of the topic and explains the significance of Wang Anyi's immigration writing to the history of literature.Wang Anyi's immigration creation tells about the fusion of urban spirit and immigration culture,and circulates in the vast space and time,promoting the development of the city,so it has the significance of the literary history hub.Wang Anyi takes a city as the axis,expressing the joys and sorrows of the tiny life in the drift of historical time and space,recording the spectrum of the national tremor in the process of globalization.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wang Anyi, Daily life, Immigration Writing, Shanghai Imagination
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