The Sex Narration Of The Contemporary Chinese Novels

This dissertation aims to study the sexual narrative modes, techniques, and the characteristics of contemporary Chinese novels, probe into the factors impacting the sex narration process, and thus provide an outline of sex narration in contemporary Chinese novels. Through the narration evolvement on humanistic changes in the past 50 years, this dissertation investigated into the love---human development process as well as the novel---literature modernization.Therefore I carry out my study by focusing on the specific context of modern novel, probing into the connotation of contemporary novels, taking the sexual issue as the trunk of contemporary literature and foreign literature relationship. When I begin to study on the sexual issue, not only pay attention to the exterior cultural context of the sex in these novels and the borning and development of that in interior cultural environment,but also think lots of issues in the history of literature deriving from the reform of sex conception and narration, which concern the changes of novel conception, novel content, novel form.This dissertation start from text study, also absorb other research results, such as the theories of narration, sociology, depth psychology, and feminism.This dissertation consists of four chapters.Chapter One studies on the sexual narration since the foundation of PRC to the end of Cultural Revolution from the perspective of nationalism, which showed the political utilizing characteristic of this period. In that time,"spontaneously"served the political goal, adopted the convention of new society, formulizing of plot narration, and simplifying of image-building. During the Cultural Revolution, the prevailing of asceticism leaded to the disappearance of humanistic, as a result, sex narration coming. The popularity of hand-written-copy《Shao Nv Zhi Xin》showed the breaking out of long-depressed humanism. Seeking for and crazily crying for humanism, it constituted the"Potential Writing"of Cultural Revolution literature together with subterranean poetry.Chapter Two studies the sex narration since the late 1970s to the end of 1980s from the newly enlightened context. New thoughts after the Opening Up aroused the reconstruction of Chinese literature and gave birth and development to new sex narration. The novels whose typical work is《Zui Ru Hua Cong》combined the contradicting sex and revolution relationship together with ironic narration, and accomplished the subversion and deconstruction of loftiness, ideal, and revolution. By the narration of Eros and discourse conversion,《Bei Ai Qing Yi Wang De Jiao Luo》and《Nan Ren De Yi Ban Shi Nv Ren》tried to construct new values and literature order.Chapter Three studies the sex narration in the 1990s by focusing on the social converting characteristics《.Fei Du》and《Bai Lu Yuan》are both representative novels of sex narration in the 1990s. The special position of《Fei Du》in the new literature roots from its break-through in sex narration. While《Bai Lu Yuan》carries out its sex narration from multi levels. It also focus on the topic of sex, as well as, pursues and advocates the concept of harmonious sex, at the same time besides bringing forth the writer's thinking on the fate of culture and the human beings. Chapter Four studies the sex narration since the 1980s from the perspective of Feminism. The feminist writers give full description of female body to liberate the female and give them the equal position as androcentrist. This turns the individual ideal of"I belong to myself"into realization and brings feminist literature into literature modernization as well.Based on the above study, this dissertation aims to make breaking-throughs in the following aspects: drawing an outline of the sex narration course of contemporary Chinese novel; review the literature phenomena of the contemporary novel development stream from the perspective of modern sex, seeking for the revolutionary and modernizing significance of literature phenomena; giving an new interpretation and review on modern sexual novels.