The study deals with Demetria Martinez＇s Mother Tongue （1994）, which is a love story between a Mexican American woman and a Salvadoran refugee. The female protagonist, Mary, delves into connotations of love, expand...The study deals with Demetria Martinez＇s Mother Tongue （1994）, which is a love story between a Mexican American woman and a Salvadoran refugee. The female protagonist, Mary, delves into connotations of love, expanding it to understanding of the other. The story deploys politically imbricated religious practices in relation to the U.S. Sanctuary movement in the 80s. Mary＇s amorous encounter with the other leads her to discover the expansion of friendship and solidarity and, ultimately to rediscover religiosity based on reawakened ethics. This study argues that the melodramatic mode employed in this novel implicitly reveals an inherent aspiration for the sacred, albeit not fully representable. The author＇s involvement in the genre of romance and the melodramatic mode ironically attests to her striving for the spiritual ideal and ontological answer. In the end, this essay reveals that drawing on the popular melodramatic narrative, the romantic engagement with the alterity can be more efficiently introduced into the ontological quest for the absolute presence.展开更多
As a biopic focusing on the people’s writer Liu Qing,the movie Liu Qing shows the creative process of Liu Qing’s rooting in the countryside and sharing the fate of peasants through the fusion of realist aesthetics a...As a biopic focusing on the people’s writer Liu Qing,the movie Liu Qing shows the creative process of Liu Qing’s rooting in the countryside and sharing the fate of peasants through the fusion of realist aesthetics and poetic expression.Contemporary writer’s biography movie is almost blank in the domestic movie history due to its special subject matter.The creation of Liu Qing required balancing the tension between historical truth,artistic aesthetics,and policy scrutiny.By deconstructing the multiple identities of the writer,reconstructing the logic of vernacular narrative,and exploring the innovation of melodramatic genre,the director has created the image of a people’s writer rooted in the earth.Combining the perspective of director Tian Bo,this article discusses how to construct a writer’s image on the screen with both depth of thought and humanistic temperature,and reveals the revelation of Liu Qing’s spirit to contemporary literary creation.展开更多
文摘The study deals with Demetria Martinez＇s Mother Tongue （1994）, which is a love story between a Mexican American woman and a Salvadoran refugee. The female protagonist, Mary, delves into connotations of love, expanding it to understanding of the other. The story deploys politically imbricated religious practices in relation to the U.S. Sanctuary movement in the 80s. Mary＇s amorous encounter with the other leads her to discover the expansion of friendship and solidarity and, ultimately to rediscover religiosity based on reawakened ethics. This study argues that the melodramatic mode employed in this novel implicitly reveals an inherent aspiration for the sacred, albeit not fully representable. The author＇s involvement in the genre of romance and the melodramatic mode ironically attests to her striving for the spiritual ideal and ontological answer. In the end, this essay reveals that drawing on the popular melodramatic narrative, the romantic engagement with the alterity can be more efficiently introduced into the ontological quest for the absolute presence.
文摘As a biopic focusing on the people’s writer Liu Qing,the movie Liu Qing shows the creative process of Liu Qing’s rooting in the countryside and sharing the fate of peasants through the fusion of realist aesthetics and poetic expression.Contemporary writer’s biography movie is almost blank in the domestic movie history due to its special subject matter.The creation of Liu Qing required balancing the tension between historical truth,artistic aesthetics,and policy scrutiny.By deconstructing the multiple identities of the writer,reconstructing the logic of vernacular narrative,and exploring the innovation of melodramatic genre,the director has created the image of a people’s writer rooted in the earth.Combining the perspective of director Tian Bo,this article discusses how to construct a writer’s image on the screen with both depth of thought and humanistic temperature,and reveals the revelation of Liu Qing’s spirit to contemporary literary creation.
