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The Diasporic Writing Of Le Clézio

Posted on:2016-05-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330461968260Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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In France literature, from Rabelais’s Gargantuan et Pant gruel, Cervantes’s Don Quixote de la Mancha, Merimee’s Carmen, Le Chercheur d’or and Urania of Le Clezio. Its geographical scope of those diaspolic novels from France expanded to Eastern Mediterranean coast and finally to the whole world. This process is consistent with Western modernization. And the geographic breadth and intensity are closely related to the technical sophistication of industrial society. In the early works of Le Clezio. most theme are industrial civilization criticism of modern society, highly detailed characters fragmented memories, and those descriptions are full of complex object with mass industrial society. After 1980. Le Clezio according to his own experiences, changed his writing direction and turned to depict African and Indian, especially characteristic of exotic places.In the context of globalization, Le Clezio traveled around the world with his dual nationality. Therefore, there are two of the most important features in Le Clezio’s works. Because of Mauritian descent, Le Clezio at the margins in the mainstream population of France. The other is in the edge of African and Indian ethnic regions; he was being marginalized from mainstream civilization region situation. In his works, both embarrassed is embodied in two marginal people in varying degrees of separation. And diaspolic ways showed two different boundaries escape form time and space. Marginalized groups shows the tendency of refuge strong civilization, but mainstreaming marginalized groups choose to depart from its own civilization in the civilization fled to marginalized groups. This article longitudinal comparison Rabelais, Merimee and Le Clezio,horizontal comparison Naipaul, Coetzee and Le Clezio, both of them are focus on the diasporic writing of Le Clezio.Chapter one compared Roland Robertson’s five-stage of globalization with Peter Sloterdijk’s three phases of globalization, to reach the specific definition of globalization. Then by comparison with modernity, concluded three features of globalization. Defined the concepts of modernity and globalization, illustrates the diasporic novels in different context respectively. Next analyzed the characteristics of two kinds of diasporic works in Le Clezio’, the alien out major regions in the time stream is often rendered as " self-deconstruction-fuzzy others-return to oneself, and the outer edge of the mainstream culture in the space indicated " self-deconstruction-affirmed others-fuzzy oneself".From Le Clezio specific text, the second chapter focuses on two marginalized groups have the identity of hybrid living state in the process of escape. For example Daughter of the desert and Goldfish, analyses on the majority of ethnic groups how to escape, the ending, and the reason is pursue memories of their ancestors. To take L’Africain and Urania for example, analyses on the outer edge of the main cultural divergence, the ending, and the reason is subject to the traumas of the cultural rift. Le Clezio drifted away from the "Western" and "non-Western" zone, belongs to multiple worlds. Its collection of exotic, amazing and hybridity as a whole, showed multiple mixed exotic landscape.Chapter III focuses on the uniqueness of Le Clezio’s diaspolic novels. Autobiographical novel L’Africain, for example, analysis that two identities separate construction and complex diaspolic subject in multiple identities. In onitsha, Le Clezio describes multiple looking for journey, constructs two different races and civilizations in the kneading of the external environment and internal culture mixed scenes of tit-for-tat. In addition, compared Prosper Merimee’s wandering Bohemians with Le Clezio’s marginalized groups,to educe Le Clezio’s continue and change to the diaspolic novels in the context of modernity. Meanwhile, compared the contemporary writer Naipaul with Le Clezio, to analysis similarities and differences under the society of globalization in different diaspolic writers’.Context of globalization, analysis the artistic characteristics of Le Clezio’s diaspolic works in the fourth chapter,. Compared with the modernity in the context of diaspolic genre, Le Clezio’from narrative structure, perspective and discourse are gradually to diversification. From the narrative effect, Le Clezio uses omnipotent narration, to describe the uncertainty of exotic field in the context of globalization, to write the reason is the pursuit of authenticity of the homeland, and the final, all illusion out of disillusionment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Le Clezio, Diaspolic, Globalization, Modernity, Hybridity
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