The Analysis of Oriental Tendency in The Lost Daughter of Happiness from the Perspective of Cross-cultural Imagology

Yan Geling's novel The Lost Daughter of Happiness rebelled to the tendency of Orientalism in the current Western context. Analyzing this fiction from the perspective of the new subject cross-cultural imagology conforms to the context of cross-culture, the need of Chinese cultural consciousness and the interpretation to complex characters. Starting from the image of The Lost Daughter of Happiness, Chinese workers and Chris,taking the method of textual analysis and literature reading,this thesis aims to interpret"the other"-orientalization tendency about male and female from Western culture and the self-orientalization tendency in narrative ways and writing skills in the fiction. However, as a matter of fact, this way can be seemed as a method of Yan Geling's endeavor to deconstruct the Orientalism from the narrative means and writing skills in a mask of orientalization, which points out a way for the new immigrant literature, that is, diasporic literature writers can make full use of regional barriers, cultural connections and life experiences to open up an enclave of literature. That is,"the third space"came up with by Homi K. Bhabha, so writers can regard it as an experimental plot to break the Western discourse authentically and establish cultural self-confidence gradually.