Open Access
American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
An Exploration on the Resistances of the Characters in Small-Town Literature
Foreign Languages School, Nanchang Normal University; 1st Division of Minorities School, Nanchang
Technology College
Chen Zhongmeng; Dai Hongxia, Foreign Languages School, Nanchang Normal University; 1st
Division of Minorities School, Nanchang Technology College . An Exploration on the Resistances of the Characters
in Small-Town Lierature ARJEL Volume 2016; pp:1-5
Abstract
In small-town literature, small town is sometimes symbolized as a trap, or metaphorized as an
iron house or a madhouse, imprisoning the characters in it. In turn, all those characters endeavor to resist
or rebell against such a capture or fetter in various ways. Their ways of deviance can be represented by
imagination or fantasy, body or sex, escape or leave and reformation or revolution, which can be narrated
as a conflict between the individual and community of small towns. From the conflict, we can read between
the lines hero ‘s or heroine ‘s aspirations in small-town society.
