Representations Of Family-and-nation Of Wang Dingjun's Prose

Wang Dingjun is widely claimed as a master of prose in contemporary Taiwan literature, whose works have drawn much attention from the critics. The literature review shows that the previous studies mainly focus on the language styles, writing techniques, and the author's personal experiences. However, it calls for more effort to study the theme of family-and-nation that runs throughout his writing.The paper aims to achieve a better comprehension of Wang's prose and elucidate the significance of his prose by exploring into the concept of family-and-nation and the representations of family-and-nation from the point of departure.The paper is concerned about Wang's prose, exclusive of his essays, novels and poems that serve as supplementary arguments. The research is conducted by studying the text in a meticulous way with the aids of literary criticism and writing intentions. The research is also related to the culture of family-and-nation and literary criticism.The present paper comprises four chapters. Chapter One reviews Chinese culture of family-and-nation. Family-and-nation has a long history in Chinese traditional culture, which exerts great influence on Chinese traditional literature and the representations of family-and-nation for future generations.Chapter Two elaborates on the different representations of family-and-nation in different times, namely juvenile, middle-age and senility, and in different spaces, namely Mainland, Taiwan and U.S.A.Chapter Three elucidates Wang's concept of family-and-nation, with the influence of the traditional culture and his personal experience. Therefore, it is binary in complimenting and criticizing simultaneously the traditional ethic of family-and-nation, which features his writing among the contemporary literature.Chapter Four promulgate the newly representations of family-and-nation in contemporary literature by analyzing the characteristic of representations of family-and-nation in Wang Dingjun's prose.