A Study Of The Cultural Predicament Of Xiao Hong 's Novels

Xiao Hong has been praised for decades as an outstanding novelist.In my opinion,however,it is a pity to make a formulated praise about how incredible her novelcreation is and how exquisite her skill is instead of noticing what a real Xiao Hong is.She was a person who payed more attention to feelings and experiences.In just lessthan10years of writing career,Xiao Hong had been writing ceaselessly.She not onlycreated many excellent novels such as Arena of Life and Death,Tales of Hulan River,the Small Town in March and so on,but also showed some disadvantages of hernovels.The achievements and disadvantages in Xiao Hong’s novel creation areactually the reflections of the cultural dilemma in writers’ psychological creation.This essay will take the cultural dilemma of Xiao Hong’s novel creation as theresearch object and analyze the influence of social and cultural factors,personalitypsychology and survival circumstances to Xiao Hong’s novel creation and thus knowabout Xiao Hong and her works objectively.The essay includes five parts:The introduction part focuses on three issues which are Xiao Hong’s rough lifeexperiences and her major works;the research status about Xiao Hong at home andabroad;the significance and problems of Xiao Hong’s novel creation.This essay willfind the problems of Xiao Hong’s novel creation by reading writer Xiao Hong and herworks.The first chapter:the social and cultural dilemma of Xiao Hong’s novel creation.Xiao Hong could hardly write out some grand and stirring works for her lackingknowledge about the war and escaping on purpose.The content of Xiao Hong’s worksis limited to her life experiences when she was a teenager at her hometown for hertroublesome adult life,so the creation space is too small and this is a dilemma of XiaoHong’s creation.The second chapter:Xiao Hong’s personality psychology.Xiao Hong just createdworks by her talent for her low level of education.Although she learned from Lu Xunlater,it was just an imitation without surpassing,which was harmful to her novel creation and resulted in no more original works.The third chapter:Xiao Hong’s survival circumstance.The rough life experiencemade Xiao Hong has a paradoxical psychology and unbalanced will and mood,whichmade her pay more attention to emotions and experiences in her works.The conclusion part:Xiao Hong is an outstanding novelist but not a great one forthe coexistence of her work achievements and regrets,which is also the culturaldilemma reflected in her novel creations.