The New York City In American Literature In20th Century

New York as an international metropolis is a typical immigrant city. Generations of immigrants in New York settle down, multiply haunt, and if the United States is a "melting pot", then New York is the bottom. In New York, foreign culture and customs are collided and fused to form a colorful cultural diversity. Each group provides a way of reading city. Richard Leigh once pointed out:"reading the text is a way of reading city ", and the city was defined as follows:" the real city, just existed in the city of discourse and is the symbol of the city. The city was" order" through language and symbolic representations, so that the city’s image became clear, a cognitive object.The first chapter Foreword briefly discusses the city in the literature and city literature in different focus, to analyze" the city in the literature" study, also the study of the presentation of the city," Imagine" or "imaginary " has become an extremely important concept and method. In the visual field of cultural study in space, the city is no longer the geographical space of static or solidification, but the social space full of change and heterogeneity with the cultural power. The city in the literature is not the simple reproduction of the real city in the world, but a kind of imagination and construction, which is not only a geographical sense of space structure, but also a kind of cultural construction.The second chapter analyzes the writing style of New York in the novel in the early twentieth century, describing the homogeneous culture with unexpected vigor, reflecting the fusion of different populations but with the same value orientation of new style. In twentieth Century the New York ethnic literature is known as the period of the current literature through the analysis of the trend of literature of the dominant position, and then analyzing the different literature in New York. The origin and evolution of Nuyorican supply the important research value with American cultural contamination and the history of ethnic literature.The third chapter shows New York in the rural perspective by Fitzgerald, who makes the country joined to the elements he describes life in the city, creating an ideal metropolitan atmosphere.The fourth chapter discusses the Salinger as the youth spiritual Savior of the United States after World War II, his text revealed by New York’s hypocrisy and indifference.Finally, the conclusion based on the above text analysis, summarizing to the city in literature research significance. The text is the testimony of city history and culture. Literature is interspersed with the author’s imagination of the real city image, and the readers are influenced by the city’s cognition and value.