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A Study Of The Scared Narrative In Alai’s Full-length Novels

Posted on:2024-05-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y ChuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2555307127493954Subject:Chinese Language and Literature
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The paper is based on sacred narratives such as mythological prototypes,ritual performances,and oral literature reflected in Alai’s novels,exploring the traditional culture and way of thinking of the Jiarong Tibetan people,and extending it to the sources and characteristics of universal aesthetic thinking in other primitive cultures of other ethnic groups in the world.The mythological prototypes in Alai’s novels are the foundation for the construction of sacred knowledge.Natural conservation god prototypes,exotic animal prototypes,creation myths prototypes and hero character prototypes depict the collective desires and fears of the Tibetan nation,reflecting cross-cultural and cross ethnic beliefs.The ritual performance in the novel is a cultural label of the tribe,used to consolidate the sacred belief foundation of the tribe.The ghost comforting and funeral ceremonies reflect the belief concept of the Tibetan soul,and the prayer and purification of disaster prevention rituals provide corresponding rescue and healing for disasters,violence,and illnesses imposed on individuals and groups,which is an open social response.In the execution ceremony used to regulate order,the sacred ritual performance of the executioner and the dramatic expression of the prisoner’s pain construct a public landscape of torture,and the torture ceremony deepens the "sacred narrative" discourse system behind power.The sacred discourse continues to regenerate with the portrayal of oral literature in novels.As the text of oral literature,folk songs play a role in the code of law in novels,and the transformation of physical presence and experience in the process of epic portrayal and artist deification plays an important role."deification" provides unquestionable sacredness and legitimacy for the identity of epic inheritors.Context also nourishes the development of oral literature,and the landscapes in the natural field and the people in the social field work together to help oral literature expand and grow.The development of sacred narratives to the present is often due to changes in time and space,or the disappearance of rituals;Or due to the false transmission of language,people gradually cannot understand the true background and meaning of mythology,and the "sanctity" is impacted.But Alai did not intentionally "fade" the sacred and deconstructive myths,but rather revealed the shaking of the sacred narrative under the influence of natural disasters,power operations,and modern civilization,faced up to the fragility and resilience of ethnic beliefs when exposed to disasters,described the sense of weariness,boredom,and absurdity in modern survival,and expressed concern and reflection on the survival situation of modern life.As a scavenger of lost faith,Alai adopts a retreat approach to protect the sacred universe,leading modern people to trace back to the fear and confusion felt by people in the primitive human desire for life in the ignorant era,and arousing readers’ attention to the gradually lost sacred narrative.
Keywords/Search Tags:Alai’s Full-length Novels, Sacred Narration, Mythical Archetype, Ceremony Performance, Oral literature
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