关键词: 全球视域, 边地经验, 《东北故事集》

Abstract: Following the thread of Karen Thornber's thoughts on “Global Health and World Literature,” this paper focuses on the writing of borderland experiences in Chi Zijian's The Stories of Northeast China. Blurring the boundary between fiction and reality, Chi situates her stories in the context of the global pandemic and makes the historical narrative a globally-oriented therapeutic method to address traumatic events. The “global perspective” indicates the inclusiveness and transcendence of these stories, while the “worldness” refers to their prevalence and fluidity. The fluidity of The Stories of Northeast China has multilayered meanings: firstly, it provides a new mode of literary circulation; secondly, it pays a particular attention to the material significance of daily life; thirdly, it highlights the mobility and fluidity within national/local literature. The so-called “borderland literature” takes its form as the “world literature” in an era when our daily life has been imbued with global forces politically, economically, and culturally. This collection of short stories and Chi Zijian's borderland experience shed light on our rethinking of the dialect between the marginality and the centrality, the local and the global.

Key words: global context, borderland experience, The Stories of Northeast China