Deepening of Narrative Poetics of"Staggered Time and Space"and Its Cross-Cultural Representation:On the Special Significance of the Novel Aftershock in Zhang Ling's Creative Trajectory
In the era of globalization,some new immigrant writers choose to travel frequently between their hometown and their new home,and their works often choose Chinese themes.The academia's understanding of new immigrant writers and their works has gradually focused on the"Chinese story"and the"de-diaspora"phenomenon.However,this new change does not mean a change in aesthetic poetics.This article focuses on the novel Aftershock to gain a glimpse of the development context and cross-cultural representation of narrative poetics of"interlaced time and space"in Zhang Ling's novel.This article takes an overall look at Zhang Ling's creative trajectory and believes that the novella Aftershock,written in 2006,is a new in-depth point after Search.This deepening is specifically reflected in the structural existence of the novel character Wolfer and the shaping of the symbiotic relationship between Wang Xiaodeng and Li Yuanni.The main points of this article are twofold.Firstly,the real"inertia"in Zhang Ling's creation does not lie in the"other's perspective",but in the"intertwined"interaction between the Western other and the Eastern self;and the temporal"interlacing"of the past and the present and the spatial"interlacing"of hometown and new home together constitute the poetic connotation of"interlacing of time and space".Secondly,whether it is the intertwined state of cultural identities of the"other self"or the"worldliness"that encompasses cultural translation and multiple cultural perspectives,they all refer to the cross-cultural context and are presented in dimensions of the creative subject and the textual experience.Additionally,the cross-cultural context is also the most essential poetic connotation of Zhang Ling's"staggered time and space"narrative structure.Through a comparative analysis with the movie Aftershock,it can be concluded that Wolfer's weakening of the plot and his"strengthening"of the structure foreshadow a new feature of the narrative poetics paradigm in Zhang Ling's novels,that is,the cultural experience of othering gradually fades out of the plot and becomes a structural hidden existence outside the plot narrative of the text.The duality of the discrete living experience of the creative subject will still endow the text with the narrative poetics of"staggered time and space"and its inherent cross-cultural context.However,the othering experience in the text,or the"new home"narrative,has been transformed from the character level to the implicit author level.In addition,this article believes that from the perspective of the theme of salvation,Zhang Ling constructed the"symbiotic relationship"between mother and daughter in dimensions of spirit,form,and nature.In a cross-cultural context,the vital and constructive symbiotic process of mother and daughter from fragmentation to reconstruction,trauma to healing,gives Wang Xiaodeng's"departure-return-departure"immigration and separation trajectory a space for meaning generation.It can be said that starting from Aftershock,Zhang Ling began to push the narrative poetics of"staggered time and space"to a new level,that is,"homeland-new home"and"departure-return"are no longer one-way relationships,but are in a two-way relationship.In the interactive relationship,the cross-cultural representation path of"inter-interpretations"fed back by the origin of the hometown and the new home is deduced,and this"two-way interaction"breaks through the shackles of the plot.In Zhang Ling's emotional and aesthetic pursuit of returning to the homeland,an implicit structural narrative feature of"beyond the story"was gradually formed.
Zhang LingAftershocknarrative poetics of"staggered time and space"cross-culture
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