@article{ART002235852},
author={Bong-Yeon Kim},
title={A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2017},
volume={47},
pages={1-26},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1}
TY - JOUR
AU - Bong-Yeon Kim
TI - A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2017
VL - 47
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 1
EP - 26
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper focuses on three novels that reflect absence of family. Conflicts caused by absence of parents or lack of function and role of parents were principle drivers fueling growth novels. In Chinese growth novels, children in a long-standing tradition of emulsion and political pressure were unable to express their conflict with parents. Out of the collective interest and only until the late 1980s, which can be found of the individuals were able to fully appreciate the growth of children. Since the late 1990s, the creative individual cases to the growth is an important point of Chinese growth. Due to a close relationship of the literature and politics further noteworthy that the growth of state for personal growth for China's growth. Reform and opening up the end of the Cultural Revolution, the emergence of new generation of cultural sensitivity with a relatively free personal attention to the growth of the chance that can be.
In this paper, created since the 1990s, the growth of the stories of yuhua(余華)’s 『Cry in the Rain』(『在細雨中呼喊』), sutong(蘇童)’s 『The Northern Part of the City』(『城北地帶』), wanggang(王剛)’s 『English』(『英格力士』), going to go through by focusing on how to respond in the lack of family.
『Cry in the Rain』 shows that a consciousness orphan child abandoned main actors 'consciousness from his birth parents and adoptive parents. 『The Northern Part of the City』 chronicles different growth stories of children who experienced a void because of their absent families and found comfort in peer groups. 『English』 is distinguished from the mainstream narrative of Chinese growth in terms of creating a role model. Individual growth through the role model in that it will eventually establish their own identities and further growth. Because of that, this novel is considered best practices of Chinese growth novels. This kind of narrative, which returns to the memory of the growth of growth, has a richer connotation amid various attempts by writers out of the past era of obsession and fatigue.
KW - growth novel;narrative response;lack of family;consciousness of an orphan child;role model
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
ER -
Bong-Yeon Kim. (2017). A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s. Cross-Cultural Studies, 47, 1-26.
Bong-Yeon Kim. 2017, "A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.47, pp.1-26. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
Bong-Yeon Kim "A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s" Cross-Cultural Studies 47 pp.1-26 (2017) : 1.
Bong-Yeon Kim. A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s. 2017; 47 1-26. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
Bong-Yeon Kim. "A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s" Cross-Cultural Studies 47(2017) : 1-26.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
Bong-Yeon Kim. A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s. Cross-Cultural Studies, 47, 1-26. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
Bong-Yeon Kim. A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2017; 47 1-26. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
Bong-Yeon Kim. A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s. 2017; 47 1-26. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
Bong-Yeon Kim. "A Study on Narrative Response to the Lack of Family in the Chinese Contemporary Growth Novel After the 1990s" Cross-Cultural Studies 47(2017) : 1-26.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2017.47..1
