英文摘要
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Eileen Chang lived in an isolated life as a wanderer since 1955 she left for America, and her private letters were revealed after her death in 1995, however, it didn't attract too much attention in studies, which should not be ignored.
According to her letters, I found out that most of her letters are a specific narrative of her life. In other words, what happened to her leads her to write into letters. There are two important events that she suffered a lot. First of all, the ”flea” event, then, second, the glossary event happened when she worked in Center for Chinese Studies at University of California, Berkeley. The Former troubles Eileen psychologically, and results in her capricious life as a wanderer; Also, the latter is a turning point that made her leave San Francisco for Los Angels and started her moving life.
This essay seeks to figure out the truth of both flea event and glossary event. Besides, since she always changes her place, her identity is hard to definite. For instance, an immigrant, a wanderer, a fugitive, or a nomad seems couldn’t best described her situation. To sum up, no matter which identity she is, it all indicates the fact that she kept roaming around.
According to the theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, they claimed that becoming is a movement's procedure. Therefore, Elieen's changing place is equal to this kind of movement which leads to her writing and specific narrative in her letters. To summarize, her letters draws the paths which implied her journey in real life. In conclusion, this essay tries to improve the great connection between her letters and reality, by doing this, we can further understand Eileen Chang, about her novels, letters, and life.
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