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Writing as Construction and Reconstruction: Metafictional Features in Where Reasons End by Li Yiyun

Authors
Haoya Zhu1, *
1English Department, School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University, No. 5, Hongjialou, Jinan, 250100, Shandong, People’s Republic of China
*Corresponding author. Email: azhy@mail.sdu.edu.cn
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Haoya Zhu
Available Online 13 February 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_171How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Chinese American literature; Li Yiyun; Where Reasons End; metafiction; language function; mother culture
Abstract

Adopting the theories of metafiction, this article extracts three matafictional features and gives an analysis of Where Reasons End, Li Yiyun’s 2019 new release. By revealing the fictionality, inserting comments into dialogue as well as in its unique, culture-characterized language patterns, the book attempts to cure the writer’s wound, while demonstrates clearly how Chinese and American cultures affect the immigrant writer and her life. Through this book, the two voices are marching onto convergence, which indicates a certain reconciliation of virtuality and reality, life and death, and different cultures achieved by the author.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 February 2023
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978-2-494069-97-8
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2352-5398
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