“One Hundred Years of Solitude” in Krokop

On the National Symptoms of Boar Crossing the River by Zhang Guixing

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220401.124How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Boar Crossing the River; Zhang Guixing; national symptoms; Malaysian Chinese Literature

Abstract

After the famous “Rain Forest Trilogy” such as Monkey Cup and Elephants, Zhang Guixing, a Malaysian Chinese writer in Taiwan, recently published another Nanyang story Boar Crossing the River in the background of Anti-Japanese War, focusing on the massacre and resistance of the Chinese in Krokop of Borneo by the Japanese army from 1941 to 1945 according to a list of “Committee for the relief of refugees of the motherland”. In this novel, Zhang Guixing changes the usual narrative mode of individual family history, expands the description of the group images of the Chinese in Krokop, highlights the patriotic sacrifice of the Chinese in the Anti-Japanese War, and saves the reality of the slaughter of the Chinese compatriots by magic means such as the myth and legend of Borneo and the mask of children’s imagination. It is noteworthy that the novel reflects deeply on the issue of individual freedom in national identity and describes the tragic fate of cross-national love in the period of national opposition. The nation-state discourse in Boar Crossing the River is Zhang Guixing’s biggest change when missing in the literary world for many years, which indicates a landmark progress in his spiritual history.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Lu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in Krokop
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 651
EP  - 656
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.124
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.124
ID  - Lu2022
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