A Study Of The Myth Of Nu Wa In Chinese-American Science Fiction Novels Salt Fish Girl And The Waves

Larrisa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl and Ken Liu’s The Waves are outstanding works of Chinese-American science fiction.The two novels demonstrate the diversity and creativity of Chinese-American science fiction: they not only blend the myth of Nu Wa and future technology,but also create a new human creation myth that belongs exclusively to the post human society;It also combines Chinese creation myths with Western cultural elements,presenting a community society under the integration of Chinese and Western cultures.When writing the myth of Nu Wa,the two novels deal with different social issues,such as bioengineering,genetic modification,and women’s issues,in response to the current post anthropological theory: in an era where human beings and technology are inseparable,human beings are being transcended and controlled by technology.This leads to thinking about the identity and ethics of both the human beings in the natural physical body and the post human beings who participate in the body through technology.This thesis takes the writing of the myth of Nu Wa in the two novels as a clue,combines the theory of post humanism,analyzes the identity of post humans in the novels,and explores the value of writing the myth of Nu Wa in the two novels under the post human society.The article is divided into three parts: introduction,main body,and conclusion.The main body has three chapters.The first chapter discusses the multiple post human images in Salt Fish Girl and The Waves,including pure biological humans bred by genetic technology,cloned humans with genes and replication,and data humans who consciously renounce the flesh,using the human body as a carrier to explore the reincarnation of Nu Wa from the perspective of technology,as well as the identity confusion presented by post humans.The second chapter explores the survival dilemma under the post-human social landscape from the perspective of factories,heterotopia,and cyberspace.Among them,there is no shortage of the oppression of factories on humans and post-humans,the seemingly promising city of hope,which is actually the existence of a heterotopia,and the post-human experience in cyberspace generated under the influence of technology.The third chapter starts with the re presentation of the myth of Nu Wa in ChineseAmerican science fiction,reflecting on the significance of human beings in post human society,and from an aesthetic perspective,tracing the causes,significance,and value of writing.It mainly focuses on the transformation of the myth of Nu Wa in Salt Fish Girl,the significance of sharing the myth of Nu Wa with other creation myths in The Waves,and the aesthetic origin of the myth of Nu Wa presented in the two texts,exploring its significance and value.The concluding part concludes that the Nu Wa myth has been endowed with rich imagination in the post-human era,interpreting the question of the origin of man from a technical point of view.In addition,the Nu Wa myth in the novel is combined with Western elements to explore the hybridity of post-humans,and the resulting identity issues.