The Spiritual Homeland Narrative of Southern Writing during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression——Centered on Country Girl and Valley of Dreams
Southern Poetics can describe the literary creation that has taken place in the"south beyond the south"since modern times along with the aesthetic space and spiritual world it presents,which are characterized by modernity,fluidity,and enlightenment values.By employing Southern Poetics as an approach to doing a close reading of the novels Country Girl and Valley of Dreams written to depict the south during the Anti-Japanese War,we can gain some new insights.Country Girl exhibits a dual structure.Firstly,the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law replaces that between husband and wife as the new focal point of conflict.Secondly,the heroine's emotional relationships undergo adjustments with the transition between urban and rural spaces.The novel implies that the heroine's spiritual homeland is in the"countryside".The narrative framework of Valley of Dreams,which involves northerners crossing over to the south,along with its narrative strategy that maintains a sense of distance,projects the twists and turns of the protagonist's experience on the southern land and the predicaments caused by the differences between north and south.The novel also encompasses an implicit narrative structure where the regional experiences of the north and south are intricately intertwined with the fates of the char-acters.The different narrative postures that the native southern writers and those sojourning there adopted when facing the South signify their artistic pursuit of writing about their spiritual homeland.
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