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The Cultural Recognition Of The "Story" Of The Mother

Posted on:2022-09-17Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:X E LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1485306341472064Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Zhang Ling is a representative writer in New Immigrant Literature and overseas Chinese literature.She,Yan Geling and Hong Ying are "the three carriages" of the new immigrant literature.Since Zhang Ling published her works sporadically in the 1970s and 1980s,and formally entered the literary world in the late 1990s,she has 30 years of creative experience.In the past 30 years,from paying attention to and writing foreign students and new immigrants to digging deeply into Chinese stories,from being regarded as "the wind of Eileen Chang" to "the year of Eileen Chang" in 2009,from paying attention to telling a good story to consciously pursuing how to tell a good story,Zhang Ling has achieved a "reborn" change with her innovative narrative exploration and solid and serious creative achievements.It also marks her different spiritual temperament and artistic pursuit from her contemporaries and same-sex writers in"similarity" and "dissimilarity",and has become a heavyweight writer in overseas Chinese literature.Zhang Ling’s novels are based on the memory,experience and imagination of his native China,and are inspired and influenced by the world’s ideas,literary ideas and artistic methods.These two aspects of narrative resources construct the unique narrative aesthetics of Zhang Ling’s novels.First of all,Zhang Ling established the important texture of her literary creation with objective female writing.Although her female writing does not have a clear gender consciousness and gender position,it continues the tradition of female writing in Chinese literature.Through the excavation of "mother generation" stories,the writing of mother daughter relationship,the writing of women’s growth stories,and the shaping of the image of weak father,she has obtained rich female writing methods and gender narrative perspective,which not only shows the significance and value of female experience to gender writing,and reveals the gender writing situation and gender dilemma encountered by female writers.Second,Zhang Ling’s historical narration is an important way for her to observe the world,recognize the reality and insight into human nature through literature.Zhang Ling’s writing of history is not a kind of "Repetition",but contains the subjective impulse and possible space of rewriting history.In the process of rewriting,Zhang Ling’s strong subjective spirit as a woman,her desire to explore human nature in the historical situation and her writing ethics of dealing with history have deeply affected her historical narration,which makes her historical writing present the writing tendency of "micro history" and"sub history".This has formed the unique aesthetic characteristics of her historical narrative.Third,Zhang Ling is a writer who is extremely sensitive to pain and injury.The driving force of her "new scar" narrative begins with the recognition of pain."Pain"constitutes an important perspective for Zhang Ling to examine human beings and the outside world,as well as an important way for her to examine the subtle human nature in the framework of human beings,history and reality.Zhang Ling’s experiential writing of "pain" not only explores the pain narrative with depth and temperature,but also realizes the narrative therapy of the text in the name of "love".However,the crack between the text and the self narration,the narrative ethical mechanism between"trauma" and "individual" implicitly express the difficulty of "cure".Fourth,diaspora writing also constitutes the remarkable characteristics of Zhang Ling’s novels.Her diaspora writing is not only reflected in the movement of geographical space,but also in the mental state of the characters "on the road",and also in the shaping of the diaspora space of new and old Chinese immigrants.At the same time,Zhang Ling’s Diaspora experience abroad is a double-edged sword,which makes his Chinese writing full of insight and blindness.With distance writing,strong sense of dialogue,the spirit of recording and reflection,as well as elegant language style and increasingly mature narrative exploration,what Zhang Ling can show is the spiritual characteristics of Chinese writing of the generation of "new immigrants".In other words,her spiritual world,life experience and time culture have created her unique features.Her similarities and differences with Zhou Li,Cao Guilin,Zhang Ailing and others,on the one hand,reflect the connection between Zhang Ling and other writers of the same age and gender,on the other hand,it also means that Zhang Ling has been constantly exploring her own writing style and narrative aesthetics.This exploration not only shows the spirit and charm of Chinese writing,but also shows the significance and possibility of overseas Chinese writing.
Keywords/Search Tags:Zhang Ling, female writing, human nature exploration, trauma narrative, diaspora experience
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