【正文】 when “I” tried to talk with her, she was stolid。多元文化下邊緣人的吶喊及其深層文化內(nèi)涵畢業(yè)論文ContentsAbstract i摘 要 ii1 Introduction 12 Artistic Appreciation of The Loons 4 Distinct Description of Piquette’s Complicated Characters 4 Piquette’s Coldness and Stolidity in the Beginning 4 Piquette’s Great Devotion to Life Four Years Later 5 Piquette’s Hopelessness After the Failure of Marriage 6 Symbolism in The Loons 7 The Symbolism of the Environments 7 The Symbolism of the Spirit 8 The Symbolism of the Ending 9 Pun in The Loons 93 The Deeper Cultural Connotation in The Loons 12 Postcolonial Feminism 12 Ecological View in The LoonsConflicts Between Human Civilization and Ecological Environment 134 Conclusion 15References 17Acknowledgements 19畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）知識產(chǎn)權(quán)聲明 20畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文）獨(dú)創(chuàng)性聲明 21 20 西安工業(yè)大學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位論文The Cry of the Marginalized People in Multiculturalism—The Analysis of The Loons and Its Deeper Cultural Connotation1 Introduction Canada is a country with multiculture, multiethnics, and multireligions, which is posed of immigrants and aboriginal peoples. Because of the plicated position of the ethnics, for one thing, Canadian culture has various and colorful features, for another, there exists serious national contradiction and conflict of interests resulting from different culture, traditions, customs, religions, and some other values. Canadian national literature is rooted in the multiculturalism. Nation assimilation is a kind of phenomenon that a nation or a part of a nation loses its own national features, being another nation. [1] For a long time, the Canadian mainstream culture was possessed by British and French culture, while aboriginal culture was oppressed and assimilated, resulting in their low social status and education level. Hence, Canadian writers in that period were almost the descendants of white settlers, whose literary themes were living conditions of the white. At the same time, a few writers began to focus on the aboriginal culture. For example, E. Carl wrote lots of novels about the Indian culture, and created a unique theme of Canadian literature. From the 1960s to the 1980s, it is an unprecedented booming period for Canadian national literature. The subjects of literary works in that period became increasingly diverse, and works focused on the female psychology and living conditions of minorities increased. Meanwhile, there emerged a large number of outstanding writers, and Margaret Laurence was the best representative. White person as Laurence was, she did not make the white culture the center of her literary works. Laurence stayed several years in Africa, and had profound observation on the surrounding life, which made her have special feelings to the marginalized people suffering from longterm colonial oppression, and made her have deep understandings to the Canadian multiculturalism. Therefore, her works often showed the living conditions of marginalized people in multiculturalism. Marginal existence and survival became one of her main literary themes, which made her woks have distinctive artistic features and profound ideological content. Her masterpiece The Loons described the living conditions of marginalized people under multiculturalism, and revealed the cultural dilemma and survival plight of ethnic minorities after cultural colonization. Margaret Laurence was born in a little prairie town of Canada in 1926. After graduation in 1947, she married Jack Laurence, who was an engineer. In 1949, they moved to Britain, and then moved to Ghana in Africa, where Laurence bore two children. Her life experience in Africa offered her abundant writing resources. As a result, her early works was centered on the African life and their fight for survival, freedom, and independence. In 1957, the Laurences settled back to Canada, thus her literary creation entered a new period. Her literary themes began to pletely turn to Canadian life, in which the most famous are the Manawaka series short stories, including four long stories The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The firedwellers, The diviners and a collection of short storiesA Bird in the House. The five stories laid the foundation of Margaret Laurence’s status in Canadian literature, and made her rise to fame all around the world. The collection of short storiesA Bird in the House published in 1970 gathered Laurence’s eight short stories, which are closely related. This is a collection with a nature of biography. Through the telling of the little heroinVanessa Macleod, the author showed from the eye of a kid the plicated characters under the plicated environment. The Loons is one of the most wonderful stories in Manawaka series. Manawaka is a virtual environment, whose prototype is the birthplace of Margaret Laurence. Small as Manawaka was, it was a microcosm of Canadian society. The 1970s was an alternate period of Canadian old and new cultural policies. As a new writer focusing on social life, Margaret Laurence had deep feelings about Canadian multiculturalism, and she turned the literary theme to the living conditions of marginalized people in the multicultural environment. In The Loons, Laurence used the firstperson narrative of the little heroin Vanessa, who told the Metis girl Piquette Tonnerre’s life. She lived in a shack in a clearing of the thicket, as is said in the novel. Her father and grandfather hang on drinking and brawl, and her mother took off because of the unbearable burden of the family. Because of the tuberculosis, Piquette was often absent from the class. She was usually silent and cold, even though she was in Diamond Lake with “my” family. Although grateful to “my” father, she never expressed her feelings. Confronted with her frosty response again and again, “I” lost patience on her and gradually drifted apart with her. Four years later, when “I” met her again in a cafe, she was just like another person. “He