The Analysis Of Yan Geling’s Novels In The New Century

Yan Geling, as one of the noted writers in new immigrant literature, played the fieldacademically, and has made very prominent achievements. Among those the novelsrepresent her achievement in literature. Therefore, this paper selects her novels writing inthe new century as the object. Through the analysis to investigate the rich culturalimplication and the unique narrative strategy and the complicated causes. The paper isdivided into three parts.The first part, the subject matters in Yan’s novels are discussed. After immigrating,Yan Geling writes many novels under the influence of different cultures. On the one hand,Yan Geling show solicitude for immigrants living in different historical periods, withhumanity concern, not only imagine the history of immigration,demonstrating theoppression and humiliation the race pocketd in a weak position in the foreign land. On theother hand, Yan Geling reveals the bottom of the immigrant’s life journey, showing thegroup who lives in the bottom of the immigrant that the survival situation and the difficultyto communicate with others in a foreign country. In addition, Yan Geling writes thosestories and experiences of Chinese. These novels not only involve the living conditions ofChinese ordinary being in the Troubled Times, concern intellectuals’ far worse fate, butalso focuse on the bizarre and motley transition the present China. In the novels, Yan joinsthe social history and personal life experience and emotional experience together, not onlyexploring the survival characters and human nature state in the history and the era,but alsoexpressing existential and humanistic cares of the broad masses of the people.The second part,the multi-dimension narrative strategy in Yan’s creation is studied.Yan accepted professional writing trainings after moving to America. She emphasizes theexploration of narrative arts. While creating Yan Geling breaks the limitation of time andspace, this way not only expands the freedom and expression, increasing the content of thetext, but also displays the beauty of breaking the normal procedure. Besides, Yan Gelingnarrative converts perspectives according to the need of the plot and the theme. Yan employs the plot pattern of "escape-hiding", regards the changes of the social history as afoil in the real life, highlighting the human nature in the process of deconstructing historyand making the novel reflects the rich connotation.The last part, The cause of Yan Geling’s creation is analyzed from her experiences.The experiences of Yan’s life in childhood, the life in army,the immigration and so onmake very important influence in her writing. The rich life experiences and the deepfeelings of eastern and western cultures influence her unique creative angle of view. Thispart of paper is based on this.