The Allegorical Study Of Li Zishu’s Novels

As a new generation of Malaysian Chinese writers,Li Zishu’s allegorical writing in her novels has a positive significance for enriching the subjectivity of Malaysian Chinese literary.The allegory in her novels includes two parts: ethnic allegory and survival allegory.The ethnic allegory is written in accordance with the realistic tradition of Malaysian Chinese literature and describes the politics of the country.The writing of survival allegory has achieved a breakthrough in the realistic tradition of the Malaysian Chinese literature and describes the individual’s living situation.In general,the generation of allegory in Li Zishu’s novels is closely related to the trend of postmodernism.In other words,the generation of her ethnic allegory comes from the restriction of external power field,and the generation of survival allegory is closely related to the author’s melancholy personality traits.Compared with the ethnic allegory in the novels of Malaysian Chinese writers such as Huang Jinshu and Zhang Guixing,the ethnic allegory in Li Zishu’s novels undoubtedly have particularity.Li Zishu gets rid of the grand history and grand narrative of traditional Malaysian Chinese literature.And forms malposed ethnic allegory from the dehistoricized writing style and the daily aesthetic tendency.At the same time,Her ethnic allegory gets rid of the simple description of the Malaysian ethnic encounters,and has rich connotations.It not only points to the pursuit of cultural identity,but also points to the inscription of historical memory,and reflects the ethnic psychology of Malaysian Chinese.Li Zishu innovates the form and enriches the meaning of the ethnic allegory of the Malaysian Chinese literature,and provides a new model for the ethnic allegory of the Malaysian Chinese literature.In the survival allegory,the author constructs the modern space with complex meaning,the dark private space,the disorderly public space,and the dystopian future space.By using the form of space,Li Zishu metaphors the chaotic ethical relations and reveals unequal power relations in the society and reveals the phenomena hidden in the society that are always ignored by people.When the writer reveals these phenomena with heterogeneous space construction,it also carries the author’s intention to arouse people’s thinking and get salvation.In addition,by synthesizing the research of Li Zishu’s ethnic allegory and survival allegory,we should also recognize that the allegorical writing in Li Zishu’s novels has contributed to the construction of the "native" and "cosmopolitan" of the Malaysian Chinese literature.The double marginal situation of Malaysian Chinese literature for a long time makes Malaysian Chinese literature always exist in the cracks and stray from the edge of the world literature.The persistence and innovation of the ethnic allegory in Li Zishu’s novels is of great significance for the Malaysian Chinese literature to maintain its independence and avoid being assimilated by other literature in the Sinophone Literature in globalization today.At the same time,Li Zishu’s survival allegory also effectively solves the limitation of the content of the Malaysian Chinese literature,and provides an effective way for the Malaysian Chinese literature to facing the world.