Man, City, and Nature in The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow
Man, City, and Nature in The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow作者机构:Southwest University Chongqing China Sichuan University of Arts and Science Dazhou China
出 版 物:《Sino-US English Teaching》 (中美英语教学(英文版))
年 卷 期:2014年第11卷第7期
页 面:547-552页
学科分类:11[军事学] 1107[军事学-军队政治工作学] 1106[军事学-军制学] 083001[工学-环境科学] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程(可授工学、理学、农学学位)] 08[工学] 110602[军事学-军队管理学]
主 题:"wholeness of man and nature" The Woman Warrior Ballad of Eternal Sorrow Orientalism
摘 要:In a time of the global market economy, if one wants to live harmoniously together with nature or living environment, he should not think with a theoretical mode of dualist contradiction but that of harmony and coexistence such as "wholeness of man and nature". To illustrate this point, this paper thinks The Woman Warrior and Ballad of Eternal Sorrow are two significant texts: Ballad of Eternal Sorrow tells an ordinary, self-respecting, and life-respecting story of WANG Qi-yao and the girls like her as well as the city Shanghai. They blend into one harmonious whole: The city is like the girls and the girls match the city. Likewise, The Woman Warrior highlights the significance of naturc on the girl narrator's epiphany and healthy growth. The narrator comes to understand that paradoxes are the basic existent condition of human beings and so what she needs to do is to be magnanimous and balanceable in accepting these paradoxes.