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Study On On Trauma Writing In Svetlana Alexievich's Works

Posted on:2019-03-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W Q ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330548463594Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Svetlana Alexandravna Alexievich,the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature.She was born in Ukraine,grew up in Belarus and wrote in Russian,and the multiple identities gave her work a unique meaning.She is concerned with suffering and inherits the Russian tradition of tribulation.Her works involve major historical events in the Soviet union and the post-soviet era,such as the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany,the Soviet Union on the war in Afghanistan,the Chernobyl nuclear accident,the disintegration of the Soviet Union and other major historical events,recording individual and collective trauma.Under the trauma theory,this paper takes four novels including: The Unwomanly Face of War,Last Witness,Zinky Boys,and Chernobyl prayer: A Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster,as the objects of study,analyzing the trauma of Alexievich's works,to explore the rich ideological connotation of Alexievich's works.This paper consists of three parts including introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction firstly introduces the writer's traumatic experience and literary creation,secondly analyzes the present situation of the research on Alexievich at home and abroad,and thirdly it introduces the basic concept of trauma theory,It finally points out the research method and significance.The first chapter mainly introduces the personal trauma in Alexievich's works.Firstly,it analyzes the traumatic experience of individual life from individual emotional trauma,individual traumatic memory,the fate of an individual.Secondly,from childhood trauma,the gender trauma of female soldiers,the young soldier's religious wounds,the individual trauma of small potato is explored.The second chapter mainly discusses collective trauma in Alexievich's works,which is divided into two parts.Firstly the collective trauma of marginal population is explored by using the contents of love trauma,and the survival trauma.Secondly we can explore the national collective memory by technology and ecological trauma.The third chapter analyzes Alexievich's works trauma narratology,from oral writing,memory recurrence,polyphonic theory,to explore Alexievich's works artistic features.The fourth chapter analyzes trauma's recovery.Firstly true history is repeated through listening and witness.Secondly love's value is affirmed,which is a way to cure trauma.Finally the call to maintain the ardour to truth goodness and beauty is made,which is a way to rescue trauma.The conclusion part summarizes this articles ideological contents,affirming Alexievich's works trauma writing value.
Keywords/Search Tags:Alexievich, trauma writing, value
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