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On The Novels Of The New Immigrant Literature Female Writer Zhang-ling

Posted on:2011-09-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305977707Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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New Immigrants, driven by the trend in migration from the initial stage of fruiting bodies evolved to take root homeless, new immigrants literature burgeoned accordingly. With the overseas Chinese literature as a gradual increase of new immigrants Women Writers as a special group of attention, Zhang Ling, the new immigrants as a writer in North America, strong and impressive writing skill has attracted a lot of the researchers'eyes.Zhang Ling is one of the most famous novelists in the field of new immigrants literature in North America. She is a good story writer and her stories represent a broad cultural horizon and have calm steady narrative style as well as outstanding artistic individuality. However, researches on her novels so far are concentrated in the subject matter, language traits, narrative technique and so on. Despite the achievement done by those reserches, the scope of the studies of Zhang Ling'work is still relatively small. Most research results are emotional. This article takes females created in Zhang Ling's novels as the starting point to describe the world of women's strong point, in order to search for and pursuit of spiritual harmony as destination points in the direction to interpret Zhang Ling's Fiction. If we compare the people's observing ablilities to insects, men observe the world with their eyes, while women are touching the world with antennae: eyes can see far, but can not deep into the department out of the sight, while soft and sensitive antennae can reach the dark historical data that eyes can't see. Zhang Ling with her sensitive antennae touches the history of women's pain. This pain is reflected in the fate of women, scattered in the gaps of their love, marriage and family, that also appears in the folds of history. Zhang Ling's novels, however, do not stop at touching of pain.She persistly struggles to cross the pain, makes efforts and try to spread her wings, which trace the outer characters of her novels into a "road" gesture. Whether escaping from the road or in the pursuit of the road, most of the characters search for themselves, and their spiritual home, so "Search" has thus become the motif of the novels. Zhang Ling,herself also constantly searches, and she has tried hard to build her own utopian ideal, which points to harmony. Zhang Ling is a devout Christian, and she is so filled with tolerance and compassion that her novels do not show weary sadness and anger for suffering and death, but the projection into the sunshine of hope for people. Any time pain is not Weidun, exhausted moments do not give up, to the spirit of Christ into the one great love, so she dedicated to writing with mercy and forgiveness of human commonalities, to build a harmonious gender relations, to find the integration of Eastern and Western cultures.As an important writer newcomers of the new migration literary camp, Zhang Ling, with the female sensitive antennae feels the world in her own way. With forgiveness and tolerance to take the pain, with gentle feelings to create works ,and with great love in common to interpret life, she does not stick to the original culture, and doesn't pursuit of a foreign land civilization stubbornly, either. She is walking on a sticking as well as pursuing road, and her novels try to beyond race, beyond the homeland and foreign land barriers. She is a "big lover", concerning about general living conditions of mankind.
Keywords/Search Tags:New Immigrant novels, Female Literature, searching, harmony
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