The Collision And Responses In The Spatial Shift

This dissertation aims at establishing a new literary theory called Continental Drift in Fiction based on the Continental Drift Hypothesis in geography. The author tries to construct it by his own interpreting on the new literary trend of modernist fictions after World War I, which spread from Europe to North and South America, as well as Asia and the whole world, and discussing how the contemporary Chinese writers used it for references and transformed the Latin-American writers artistic experiences, spatial shift and geographical transference in their fiction writing.In this dissertation, the author summarizes the general outline of the world literature after World War I. That is, from Europe modernism, American literature flourishing and Latin-American literature explosion to frontier-free writers in the globalizing and internet era as well as the thriving contemporary Chinese literature. In the chronological and spatial process, they are correlated linearly. Therefore, from the internal perspective of the fiction, the structure, form, language and perception have been changed evidently. From the external perspective it is the geographical transformation from Europe, America to Asia and Africa. It is called the fictional geography.In the history of world literature, it is evident that world literature is mutually influenced and inspired. For those world famous writers one generation after another, they have their own paradigms. The peaks they have achieved in their works could only be reached by extensive reading of their works. With the inspiration, Chinese writers are able to create their own unique writing style in the literary works. This is the most exciting process described in this study.Four chapters are included in this dissertation. The introduction is mainly about the translation and the relevant research of Latin-American literature in China after1949. The author also outlines how the new creative literary trend extended from Europe to America and Asia as well as other places, and formed mutual correlated literary trend. The new literary trend lasted almost one century chronologically from the end of World War I till the first decade of the twenty-first century. Spatially, it is the continental drift from Europe to America and Asia as well as other places. For example, from Kafka, Proust, William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Mo Yan in China, they are related chronologically and spatially. There are three sections in the body of the dissertation. The first section includes the interpretation of the literary works by eight foreign writers around the "Explosion of Latin-American Literature" as well as the relationship with European literature. The second section is the case study of twenty Chinese writers who have been greatly influenced by the Latin-American literature. And how Chinese writers transferred the foreign literary influence to their own writing and formed the Asian Literature as one of the parts of the world literature are also focused on.In the third section, the author elaborates the remained influence and the responses of the younger Chinese writers to Latin-American literature for the first decade of the twenty-first century.