A Study Of Life Consciousness In Banana Yoshimoto’s Novels

Japanese contemporary female writer Banana Yoshimoto（1964-）extended her writing style to the individual life in the modern city.Through the description of individual lonely and confused life experience,she revealed the loss of life of urban young people.The content of her novels mostly reconstructs the psychological process through the mode of "lose-seek-reconstruction",so as to achieve the effect of comforting the restless soul,which sets off a "Literary upsurge of Banana Yoshimoto" worldwide.Care for the living circumstances of individual makes Banana Yoshimoto’s creation shows the strong consciousness of life,but its life thinking is not limited to the individual,but the writing under the environment of contemporary Japanese society,jump out of the individual is limited to extend life consciousness to attention to gender cultural life as well as the nature of all things,On the basis of our national culture,we combine our own special life experience to write life with both classical culture tradition and modernity consciousness.Based on the modern cultural context of the combination of traditional Japanese culture background at the same time,around the Banana Yoshimoto in the creation of life consciousness on the discussion and the research of many sided,explore the life value orientation diversified and individual subject is gradually lost under the modern background of Banana Yoshimoto life consciousness of value and significance in literary creation.In addition to the introduction and conclusion,this paper mainly consists of three chapters.The introduction mainly includes the introduction of Banana Yoshimoto’s novel creation and related research at home and abroad,the research purpose and significance of this paper,the main research methods and innovations,and the clearance of the concept of life consciousness.The first chapter puts Banana Yoshimoto’s creation in the context of Oriental cultural life and the unique life perception of the Japanese nation,and discusses the internal and external roots of the creation of her life consciousness based on her personal life experience.The origin of Banana Yoshimoto’s novel life is the thought of gods and Buddhas,the view of nature of life,the special "impermanence" psychology of Japanese nation,the spirit of bushido,the immersion of time environment and the writer’s life experience.Chapter two focuses on Banana Yoshimoto’s novels and discusses how to reconstruct life consciousness based on the current cultural context.Her life consciousness is mainly embodied in individual life and death choice,gender cultural life construction and ecological thought.The third chapter will gibbon Banana Yoshimoto in saturation of life consciousness in the significance of the present social environment,respectively from the individual life,gender culture and ecological ethics Angle discusses the creation of life consciousness,trying to is in a state of loneliness,anxiety,confusion,the life of modern people rise to clarify the role of order among the chaotic living.