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With special grandparenting experience as he grew up, Huang Chunming’s work Get off Bus at Yilan which officially launched his creation career has profound grandparent-grandchild writing. He cared about two characters “elders” and “children” in his creations for a long time, and how he presented the topic of “grandparent-grandchild writing” in his works is deeply cared. The study aims to probe into what thought and meanings “grandparent-grandchild writing” brings in the diverse creations of Huang, and what characteristics and values it presents in the history of literature. The study analyzed the images of a grandmother and her grandson in the Huang Chunming's novel, their affective interaction, their family pattern and ethic values that it presents to bring richer interpretation and orientation to him and his work.
The grandparent-grandchild writing of Huang Chunming has the shadow of his grandparenting experience when he grew up, and it shows his reminiscence for scenery and customs in his hometown from time to time. Additionally, it has semi-autobiographical color. From the angle of his writing, he cared about “the growth of young grandchildren” in his early writing career and about “the elderly life of grandparents” in his later writing career, which shows his different care in his creations. He was inclined to have positive discussions about the images of the grandmother and her grandchild and their affective interaction and wrote “the extension of memories and emotions,” “entanglements of and desire for family love,” and “conflicts and interdependence between grandparents and grandchildren under the social structure” to show diverse and rich affection between the grandmother and her grandchild. With respect to the content of Huang's creation thought, he held both positive and negative perspectives on family patterns and ethic thinking including his positive approval of the “grandparenting” relationship and negative care for it, his care for physical, mental and spiritual states of elders and his reflection upon filial piety in the “aged society” and showed his approval for scenery and customs in his hometown, moral wisdom and the extension of social culture in the section of “Identification with Family and Inheritance.”
Grandparent-grandchild writing in Huang Chunming's diverse creations extends his consistent care for the society, people and the land to present the meaning of “a literary image recorder.” The content of his grandparent-grandchild writing contains the author's care for his own life experience in addition to recalling family love. Under the
turmoil of his age and cultural shock, the work shows his description of the transitional society and his thought for ethic values, and it manifests the uniqueness and significance of grandparent-grandchild writing in the history of literature. The writing can be regarded as the exaltation of the author's spirit as well as the symbol of social culture in the history of literature, and it is a collective memory of a person and an era. |