Jin "new Immigrants" Novels Theme Study

As a new immigrant writer, Ha Jin’s achievements in American literature are remarkable. His novels which repeatedly gain international awards are unprecedented in the Chinese-American literary history. In recent years, Ha Jin’s novels were published in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Mainland, along with the rise of various studies on his works. Ha Jin’s5novels are the objects of this article, which are In the Pond, Wating, The Crazed, War Trash and A Free Life. This paper is from the point of view of New Immigrant Literature, Post-colonialism, Existentialism and Psychoanalytic theory in combination, in-depth discussion and research on the themes of Ha Jin’s novels.This article is divided into five parts:The first chapter mainly collates and summarizes New Immigrant Literature and its theories. New Immigrant Literature is a special literary phenomenon since the1970s and1980s. As one of new immigrant writers, commonality and particularity of the relationship between Ha Jin’s novels and New Immigrant Literature is the first problem to solve before studying his works.The second chapter is to explore Cultural Revolution world which is described by Ha Jin from the perspective of looking back. Ha Jin went abroad with the pain of Cultural Revolution, and this experience had played an important role in his literary creation. Compared with domestic literature in the same period, Ha Jin criticized and reflected Cultural Revolution from the absurdity of society, the tragedy of fate and the alienation of love from the perspective of new immigrants, and sublimated works to the height of the humanity.The third chapter is to research The Other of Chinese culture from a dissociative point. As a new immigrant, rootless state in the two cultures determines the dissociative theme of Ha Jin’s novels. Ha Jin prefers to describe little people. During struggling and dissociation, some of them sink and become The Other who is emasculated, and others become The Other who is raised through spiritual awakening.The four chapter is to study cultural identity of new immigrants from the perspective of exploring. A Free Life is the only work about new immigrants’ living in Ha Jin’s five novels. The hero has gone through the evolution which is from confusion to agreement, and then from agreement to going beyond. The process of self-reflection and self-awareness is a major feature of Ha Jin’s novels.The chapter five is to study the thinking in marginal culture from the reflective point. The thinking includes the writer’s skills in the way of narrative and Ha Jin’s thinking, and Ha Jin’s thinking is related to his identity and position.Conclusion:the concluding section summarizes the features of Ha Jin’s novels. His works which focus on humanity and advocate universal values have major implications on contemporary Chinese literature.