A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Love Beyond Language《千年敬祈》:爱无言开题报告
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1. 研究目的与意义(文献综述)
yiyun li has long been the representative of american chinese writers. over the years, she sticks to writing novels and short stories entirely in english. her works involve not only the cultural shock between these two countries, but also political opinions, subtle feelings, and the seemingly simple relationship which is indeed complicated of all human beings. a thousand years of good prayers is the movie adopted by one of her novels and shot with the background of multicultural impact centering around the main clue of the father-daughter relationship. the paper aims at analyzing some elements behind the objective reality.
ha jin, who is also an immigrant writer, has once said in his book the writer as migrant, that at the outset of his career, a writer often wrestles with the aristotelian questions—to whom, as whom, and in whose interest does he write? his answers will shape his style of writing. therefore, as we discuss a book, the topic of its writer is inevitable. to know the writer better can help the readers to understand better. there many studies on the writer towards varies terms, such as focusing on the nonentities and writing cultural differences by feng yuanyuan to depict the features of her works, the analysis of the identity construction of the translator’s behavior for chinese-american language writer by tang lei to concentrate on the identity construction of the writer herself and the ones who are in dilemma—the novel theory of the chinese woman writer yiyun li for language acquisition to introduce influence of the cultural identity on her writing by li jing.
about yiyun li, ahmed fatema proposed in the review double agent that li’s ability to write about both her native and adoptive countries—her characters include chinese immigrants in america and emigres on return visits to china—makes her a skillful double agent. and the cross-cultural dispatches she delivers require rapid adjustments on the part of the reader, too. qin sheng suggested in don’t let us have nothing to say about this world—li yiyun and her story a man like him that the settings of the books written by yiyun li are always related to the cultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, therefore, most of the heroines in her works suffered from trauma and loss, which is linked with her experience and memories. on the other side, the trauma is not the whole part what she tried to tell, but the narrative texts to inspire the reflection on the post-trauma times.
2. 研究的基本内容与方案
this paper is to analyze the relationship between the father and the daughter mainly centering around the patterns of connection both from the internal and external elements. the external element refers to the cross-cultural conflicts, which leads to the different family beliefs and attitudes towards personal relationships. and the misunderstanding also results in the contradicted point of view of these two generations of this post-modern society. on the other hand, the internal element lies in the two characters’ personal feelings and experiences, in which yi lan and her father has the false expression on each other lasting over many years. from analyzing the personalities from the psychological perspective, it will be easy to understand the inner logic of the two characters better. the environment people live in can influence their speech and behavior, and the experience can also shadow on their lives of later years. by combing these two factors, the sense of alienation in this movie can be well explained.
3. 研究计划与安排
before 15th, january settlement of the title
before 25th, february submission of the outline
before 25th, april submission of the first draft
4. 参考文献(12篇以上)
[1] ahmed, fatema double agent [j]. new york: cambria press. 2005
[2] lo,yi-jou from what we eat to how we are: food and the father-daughter relationship in yiyun li's a thousand years of good prayers [j]. explicator. 2015: 65-68
[3] mccarthy, todd a thousand years of good prayers 71 [j]. variety: 2007