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Ambivalent Perspectives and Characteristics of Diasporas represented in Chinese Literature by Chinese Diaspora

Hyelim KOH 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This is a study on what the Chinese Literature by Chinese Diaspora(CLCD) really stands for, unlike it is sometimes misunderstood as a radical ideology to overset and to deconstruct mainland Chinese literary environment. Should there are inside in the CLCD's literary works definitely are not unique or special cases just found in their article but they are regarded as universal and rather general examples to proceed to the global general instances, thus, the concept of CLCD and the characteristic of them is to attract more and more researchers attention. In this piece of work, some of representative novels written by Shih-kuo Chang and Li-hua Wu complied frequent description over intellectuals who are drifting both in their own homeland and in other countries about how deep the self-identity agony is and how complicated their status are. Also, in Hsien-yung Pai's novels I can recognize some of the portrait of intellectuals' anguish. At the same time, when they encounter some of non-intellectual people in the novel, the reactions and their way of realizations obviously stimulate reader's curiosity. At the last part of Hua-ling Nieh's novel, there is partially depicted how intellectual Chinese Diasporas live their lives. It is clearly discovered that the problems over how they accept their changed or yet-to-changed identities and to deal with them, these are the very closely related issues. Based on previous research outcome, I propose to go one step forward by analyzing aspects of intellectuals and gaze of non-intellectuals with characteristics of ambivalence and hibridity.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.