Study On Mobley By Xiao Hong With Female Standpoint

Mobley, the last novel of Xiao Hong, often tends to be in the exclusion of Xiao Hong’s important works. As a nationally critical novel on the theme of anti-Japanese war, it ought to be paid attention while its value is far more than the apparent theme. Mobley contains quite complex ideas under the seemingly pure irony as if Xiao Hong tried to display all her experiences and feelings in escape and connect them with female consciousness. The thesis begins with female consciousness and explores the female standpoint hide in the neuter narrative with a character of the age.The thesis firstly presents that Xiao Hong melt the female details into the narrative of war and connected the feminine narrative of daily life with history, which not only reflects the writer’s concern to ordinary people, but also opens a new field for war literature by using female’s concerns. Then it studies that Xiao Hong got involved in the enlightenment and salvation discourses in female standpoint. It shows, on one hand, Xiao Hong paid sustained attention to the enlightenment discourses, reflected them, picked up the classic topics in May the Fourth New Literature Movement, and reconsidered the enlightenment theme with personal experiences and feelings; on the other hand, she uncovered and caricatured the dark side of every social stratum with female-specific keen perception, showed humanitarian concerns to the weak, and subverted the myth of anti-Japanese war. In the context of grand narrative age, Xiao Hong sent out a small but unique voice and expanded another way of real narrative with marginalized gender consciousness. Such an insistence on spiritual stand of female will inevitably lead to a split on the writer’s mentality and descriptive language followed by anxiety and difficulty in writing.The thesis attempts to study the hidden meaning by close reading. Xiao Hong melt herself into the writing of anti-Japanese war in1940s in a highly personalized way. The insistence on seeking for female standpoint in Xiao Hong’s works shall be deeply understood...