A Non-fiction Writing Study Of The Warmth Of Other Suns In The Perspective Of New Historicalism

Isabel Wilkerson(1961-)’s The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration is a nonfiction novel set in real historical events,showing the unstudied and neglected personal experience of the Great Migration wave,and is a vivid display of the individual dimension in the Great Migration wave.The selection and method of the author conceived the work show that her purpose was to reproduce the "recorded" history and explore the neglected individual feelings in that social and historical event.The interpretation of this work can explore the enlightening significance of literature for the historical writing — — how to complete the reproduction of grand history with the motivation of personal mission.This paper selects the perspective of new historicism to explore how the author can reproduce the history of great migration by means of nonfiction writing,and analyzes the significance of nonfiction historical narrative in literature,society and historical culture.This paper consists of three parts: preface,main text and conclusion.The preface part mainly introduces the research background and significance of this topic selection,sorts out the research status situation at home and abroad related to The Warmth of Other Suns,and expounds the research methods selected in this paper and the innovation points of this research.The main text section includes three chapters.The first chapter mainly analyzes the non-fiction writing characteristics of The Warmth of Other Suns;The second chapter mainly analyzes the non-fiction strategy adopted by The Warmth of Other Suns in constructing literary texts from the perspective of "writing big history with small history" from the perspective of New Historicist criticism;The third chapter explores the practical significance of non-fiction writing for historical narrative literature and explains the value of non-fiction literature in society,history and culture by studying the text connotation of The Warmth of Other Suns.Finally,in the conclusion section,the main contents of the previous three chapters are summarized,and the research is carried out around the non-fiction writing characteristics,text construction strategies,meaning and value of The Warmth of Other Suns.It points out the literary value and practical significance of The Warmth of Other Suns as a typical text that can connect non-fiction writing with new historicism.While affirming the value of the non-fiction writing of The Warmth of Other Suns,it also reminds readers to pay attention to the historical limitations of the text itself.