Study On The Borderland Novels Of Dangyimin From The Perspective Of Cultural Geography

This paper takes the novels which Dang Yinmin wrote about Tibet, Shaanxi and Xixia as a research, and mainly uses the cultural geography theory, investigating the borderland novels of Dang Yinmin in terms of the natural geographical environment and humane geographical environment. It also combines the relative contents of the cultural geography which involve in Dang Yinmin’s borderland writings to make support studies, such as the theory of cultural landscape, cultural identity theory.This paper aims to discuss the personality of special region culture which presents in the borderland novels of Dang Yinmin, and then explore how the cultural geography influence the creating background, motivation, character image, plot shape and style of borderland novels, thus find out humanistic care and artistic characteristics contained in Dang Yinmin’s borderland writings.The paper will make detailed description of the relative cultural geography theories, the scope of this study and the selection of subject matter, and explain the purpose, content and significance of this study in the Introduction. The first chapter explains the cultural and geographical background that borderland novels generated from Dang Yimin’s personal identity, experiences, works etc. The paper focuses on the second chapter, the third chapter and the fourth chapter, they analyze the triggering factors that Dang Yimin’s artistic creation of cultural geography, the image of the characters and the plot shaped in the novel, and the novel style from cultural geography respectively, and then reveals the historical reason in Dang Yimin’s borderland novels:the value of harmony.