Author: Sha, Sha

Annotation: This article explores the specific manifestations, profound implications and value significance of the homesickness writing in the literature of the Dungan people in Central Asia. By using the method of image analysis, it further investigates how the literature of the Dungan people in Central Asia depicts their hometown and deeply analyzes the historical and cultural implications contained in the homesickness writing. Especially, the homesickness writing is of great significance in expressing nostalgia, seeking spiritual homeland, achieving cultural identity and constructing a "community with a shared future for mankind". Therefore, it is necessary to study the significance and value of the homesickness writing in the literature of the Dungan people in Central Asia in the cultural exchange of the "Belt and Road Initiative" and world literature.

Keywords: The Literature of the Dungan People in Central Asia; writing of nostalgia; geographical imagery; dialect writing; spiritual homeland; cultural identity; sense of community

Pages in journal: 383 - 388