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SINCE THE 1990s, American Farmers Writers City Writing

Posted on:2014-12-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C J TongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2265330401969386Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The economic and the pace of urbanization have a great development with the social transition from the1990s which has brought a sharp change of society, the most obvious representation is the emergence of immigration. Large numbers of farmers go to the city with the trend. At the same time, a group of agricultural origin writers also go into the city and begin their life and writing in the city. This paper will start from some of these novels which involve the city writing since the90s. Try to find out the new change of the city writing in the special context. On this basis, analysis their cultural position and urban emotion in deep, finally summed up the history of literature significance and limitations.The city writing related to survey of the agricultural lineage writer is the same to the village writer. City image has also been a writer in literary texts to describe the theme. But it has not been able to like country, mature displayed in front of readers. The coming of the era of the opportunity makes the urban subject matter works a lot. The city works of agricultural-American writer is also due to a timely. But it has a unique expression.Text rendering of the agricultural American writers urban writing. In the works of writers of African descent, city is more of a symbol. The city more focus on the underlying landscape description at the same time is endowed with a lot of implications. Farmers African-American writer mostly focus on the underlying city people’s survival state. Based on their living conditions in the city gives fully in the description of the intellectuals of humanism and deep thinking on urban civilization. They also show that human nature in the text of the aesthetic pursuit, we can see the attitude of the city.The city emotion and writing style of the agricultural-American writer. For them who grew up in rural life but finally settled in the city due to various reasons, life in the city needs a long process of adaptation. From the initial miss the countryside and constantly criticism and question. After then gradually adapted to the city life and they show the appreciation and recognition of urban civilization. Between them is one kind of complex existence.The significance and limitations of their creations. Their writing of the city has its specific significance of literary history. It is the breakthrough for urban and rural duality system. But when compared with the city in terms of author’s works, their shortcomings can not be ignored. But the author thinks that as agricultural-American writer live in the city for a long time and accumulate over a long period of city experience, it is still possible to open up the other party of the world for the urban literature.
Keywords/Search Tags:the agricultural American writers, writing of city, emotion characteristic, the significance and limitations
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