A Study on the Reconstruction of Ethnic Legends in Prayers in the Wind——Also on the Role of Ethnic Cultural Narratives
In the contemporary literature of ethnic groups,ethnic legends or epics as cultural memories are often recruited by authors to write about realistic themes or to reproduce personal experiences,and the way of represen-tation of such historical texts reflects the authors'unique knowledge of ethnicity and history.The novel Prayers in the Wind uses the narrator's life story and the Tibetan legend Milarepa as materials,focusing on how the retell-ing of the legend helps the narrator to understand the past,reflect on history,and rebuild himself,and the inter-textual relationship between the two embodies the narrative subject's dynamism.This paper intends to take the way of legend retelling and the dynamic interconstruction of personal narrative and ethnic legends as an entry point to analyze how the narrator actively rewrites the original text of the legend,and through understanding the author's subversion of the classical model of meaning and hermeneutic symbols,to understand the significance of the contemporary ethnic literature's use of cultural narratives.
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