声明
Acknowledgments
摘要
Abstract
Contents
1.Introduction
1.1 A brief introduction to The Surrendered and War Trash
1.2 Literature review
1.3 A brief introduction to trauma theory
1.4 Focus and format of the thesis
2.Trauma Narratives of Commoners’ Scourging Memories
2.1 Korean War:a bloody history ever binding Chinese and Korean people
2.2 ‘‘Peculiar’’ commoners’ painful memories of Korean War
2.2.1 Survivors’ traumatic memories in The Surrendered
2.2.2 POWs’ traumatic experiences in War Trash
2.3 Essence of the trauma narratives:ice-breaking works gaining the disadvantaged groups’ voicw
3.Representing Traumatic Memory:Recourse to Specific Narrative Strategies
3.1 Individual traumatic memory in the perspective of small narrative
3.2 Specific narrative strategies
3.2.1 Nonlinear narrative in The Surrendered
3.2.2 Linear narrative in War Trash
3.3 Effect of the narrative strategies:healing trauma
4.Exploring Two Writers’ Narrative Intention:Choice of American and Ethnic Cultures and Ethical Values
4.2 Different choices of culture and ethical value
4.2.1 Chang-rae Lee:wandering between the two cultures and ethical values
4.2.2 Ha din:accepting American culture and embracing individual ethics
4.3 The pervasiveness of cultural predicament for diasporic writers
5.Conclusion
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