Study On The Image Of Migrant Workers From The Perspective Of Immigrant Literature

Because of the farmer go to the city,The modern native is different form the native of Lu Xun,Shen Congwen,Zhao Shuli."Survival in the city" and "the city dream" of the force to induce the farmer leave for the city,which is the field of cultural conflict.In the collision and conflict of the center and the edge,the native and the city,the traditional and the modern,the farmer has a profound crisis of identity.In order to alleviate the crisis,they return to their hometown,but the decline of hometown from matter to spirit,and the civilization cause them to leave their again.So,they become Marginals,wandering the city and their hometown."Who am I?",they always ask themselve.Their unique life experience has been writed by the writer,and constitutes the most important part of the fictions on "migrant workers".This thesis takes the"migrant workers" image in the fictions on migrant workers as the research object,using the theory of immigrant literature,analysis systematically the image of migrant workers cultural connotation and aesthetic characteristics,insights into the changing of the farmers image form last century since the 90's.Also the thesis through the image of farmers to know the writers anxiety of the modernity and the modern transformation of Chinese farmers.Last,this thesis would correct to the wrong tendencies of the conceptual writing and ideological criticism,which to find the new breakthroughs and the new criticism methods of the fiction on migrant workers.This thesis consists of seven chapters,besides the introduction and conclusion,the body is divided into five chapters.The introduction part briefly describes the background of the "migrant workers fictions",clearance and discriminates the related concepts,and summarized the research status of the subject,points out that this thesis will start from "the image of migrant workers",takes"identity" as the breakthrough point,using the theory of immigrant literature to Investigate the "migrant workers" image and its existing problems,also to find the method to solve the problem.The first chapter reviews the historical chance of'migrant workers",and the new facters in the perspective of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature.As Marginals,they wander in between the village and the city,endure the squeezed between both of them,undergo the fission of cultural personality,which is different from the image of farmers in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature.The second chapter prevue the image spectrum of "migrant workers".On the basis of "modernity" and the state of their life,this thesis divides the image of "migrant workers "into three types:a visitor mentality and traditional migrant workers,traditional-modern migrant workers,modern migrant workers.The third chapter mainly inspect the construction's strategy and cultural connotations of "the image of migrant workers".The writer combines with the reality of migrant workers and their literary ideal,adopts the mode of "leaving-coming","edge Angle"and the "binary model" to shape the image of migrant workers."leaving-coming" is the common mode of Lu xun's country novels,and is also the life trajectory of the migrant workers,so the writer use it to reflect their state of life.They stand on the migrant workers' position,using a straight posture,with the"urban and rural dualistic antithesis" as the core,and unite the contrasting of "the locals and outsiders","the top and bottom" to shape the image of migrant workers.The fourth chapter mainly research the limitation of the image of "migrant workers".It includes four aspects:severe tendency of symbol,out of thought and emphasizes the destiny tragedy,lack of philosophical implication,and no typical character.Most text display that the writer always make the complicated to simple,and take the migrant workers as the symbol of suffering,social problems and cultural.which is inevitably leads to the absence of thought,and combined with the logic deduce story,the fault of the "theme first”is very common.Besides,It should be noted that the native literature has contact with the wandering form its beginning,but the writer ignores it and don't reveal the modern meaning and Philosophical significance.All of this caused the the lack of a typical,which is unbecoming of the magnificent literary trend.The fifth chapter embarks from "the image of migrant workers" to discover the dilemma of the migrant workers novel."Serious derailment with reality","The dazzled spirit and the disordered value judgment of the writer","the inaction of the literary criticism",which is influenced the writer's creation and the positive development of the the migrant workers novel.Today's native is very different from the Lu xun's,Shen congwen's,and Zhao Shuli's,but some writers ignore the reality,along his creation of inertia,Blindly follow the postmodernism and consumer culture trend.They don't see the subject of the real demands of the migrant workers,just to the opposite of history in thepretending of nostalgic.The critics also have this situation.They have grab "historical resources",especially the yan'an literature and art thoughts,only see the surface of the correlation,regardless of the true nature of the literary trend,which is severe damage to the benign ecological literature,so in order to promote the migrant workers novels,the writer should experience life and maintain independent consciousness,the critics dare to criticize the bad tendency and provide creative ideas.The conclusion reiterates that the migrant workers novels are novels which purpose is looking for the rural China's future and exploring a balance through reshaping the identity of farmers in a collision with a blend of the urban and the rural,the traditional and modern.It discusses the modern transformation of farmers and price in history in this process.The migrant workers are far from the real moderntity,but they pain of the transformation is inevitable whether passive urbanization or active urbanization and farmers whether access to the city identity.Therefore,the transformation is an unfinished proposition,is also a problem.