Author(s)

Yonghua He ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Chinese Language and Literature/School of Journalism and Communication, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China

Corresponding Author

Yonghua He

ABSTRACT

Chen Qian's novel "The ruins of Hami" is told from the first-person narrative perspective, i.e., the story between "I" and Hami and Hami's family is told in the voice of "I", mainly presenting a tragedy that happened between three generations of an overseas Chinese family in the 1970s. The use of the first-person narrative perspective plays an important role that cannot be ignored in the narrative effect of the novel. This paper will take the first-person perspective as an entry point, analyze the specific performance and effect of the first-person in the ruins of Hami and explore the effect of the first-person in expressing the author's thoughts.

KEYWORDS

The ruins of Hami, First-person narrative perspective

CITE THIS PAPER

Yonghua He, On the First-Person Narrative of "The Ruins of Hami". Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 8-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040402.

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