Immigrants Topophobia for the Wasteland:First Chinese American Anti-Terrorism Writing in Tao Lins Bed

摘要：

　　Chinese American novels in the 21st century have implicitly demonstrated a tendency to go beyond ethnic writings towards more universal concerns and themes.Among these attempts,Tao Lin,a new-millennium immigrant writer devotes his debut novel entitled “Bed to the place-focused thinking on terrorism as he sheds new light on how immigrant youth perceive and respond to the world overshadowed by terrorism in the wake of the September 11 Attacks.This paper analyzes the terrorism-related literary texts in this novel with placecentered perspective so as to highlight immigrants anxiety with terrorism,topophobia for a world of wasteland,and eagerness for ecological dwelling on Earth.

关键词： topophobia terrorism wasteland sense of place place thinking

作者: Cai Xia

作者单位: The Army Engineering University Nanjing,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第七届东北亚语言、文学与翻译国际学术论坛

会议地点: 吉林

会议语种:英文

页码: 439-444

在线出版日期: 2018-06-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）