The Writing of Disgust in Ha Jin's <italic style="font-style: italic">A Free Life</italic>

Chipeng Zhou

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The Writing of Disgust in Ha Jin's A Free Life
The Writing of Disgust in Ha Jin's A Free Life
Phd candidate in Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, 200083, P. R. China
Vol. 7, Issue 2, Pages: 89-102(2023)
Published： 30 December 2023 ，
DOI：10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470208.20230702
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Zhou Chipeng.The Writing of Disgust in Ha Jin's A Free Life[J].Critical Theory,2023,07(02):89-102.
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Zhou Chipeng.The Writing of Disgust in Ha Jin's A Free Life[J].Critical Theory,2023,07(02):89-102. DOI： 10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470208.20230702.

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The paper analyzes the role disgust plays in Na Wu as a new Chinese immigrant and the protagonist in Ha Jin's

A Free Life

(2007) and his identification with and pursuit of a free life after immigrating to America

finding that the disgust guides Nan Wu to the opposite direct of his anticipation and expectation

that is

he advances much closer to his Chineseness in the mainstream society. The disgust at repressive ideology in native land and materialized thought in the adoptive land expels the aversion out of Nan Wu and his compatriots

and attracts them back simultaneously to what they disgust at

reminding them of the cultural and ideal genes labeled by the native land and new homeland in their bodies. However vehemently Nan Wu and his compatriots disgust at certain aspects of the homeland

they have actually never left as it has already been running through their body since the birth. As Nan Wu struggles between the hatred and redemption

Wu's relationship with what he disgusts at becomes more intimate. Through the anatomy of disgust

the readers understand the individual struggle and fight of immigrants between the two lands and receive a new way of comprehending the identity and culture choice and creation of immigrants.

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DisgustHa JinA Free Lifenew Chinese immigrants

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The Writing of Disgust in Ha Jin's A Free Life

DOI：10.47297/wspctWSP2515-470208.20230702

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