A Study On The Writing Of Trauma In Wei Wei’s Novels

Wei Wei is a contemporary novel writer.This article takes Wei Wei’s novels as the research object and explores the traumatic writing in these works.When Wei Wei continued to pay attention to trauma,she sensitively discovered the ubiquitous existence of trauma in daily life and recorded these traumas in literature.Wei Wei’s traumatic writing novels pay special attention to the inner pain of traumatized characters.She expresses the inner struggle of traumatized characters fully with delicate brushstrokes,forming a unique traumatic writing text.This article meticulously analyzes the uniqueness of Wei Wei’s traumatic writing,trying to explain it from a literary perspective.This article uses the theory of trauma to study Wei Wei’s novels.Trauma theory is a popular literary criticism method since the 21st century.Trying to explain Wei Wei’s novels from the theory of trauma can further excavate the connotation of Wei Wei’s novels.This paper mainly has the following contents:The first chapter mainly analyzes the types of trauma in Wei Wei’s novels.In this chapter,we will classify and analyze the trauma in her novels.In these novels,trauma can be classified into two types:personal trauma and social trauma.These two types of trauma also coincide with Wei Wei’s creation.In the early stage,Wei Wei paid more attention to personal trauma such as growth and love.Later,she expanded her horizons to the times and social issues.The traumatized characters in Wei Wei’s novels suffered trauma in ordinary daily life.They were fixed in the trauma memory and it was generally difficult to get out of the trauma.The second chapter mainly elaborates the narrative methods in Wei Wei’s traumatic writing novels.The speciality of traumatic writing is largely in the trauma narrative mode,and the topic of trauma is closely related to the trauma narrative mode.The author analyzes Wei Wei’s novels’ narrative method from three perspectives : the artistic presentation of downplaying traumatic events,dominate narrative voices highlighting traumatic narrative,and abstract narrative sublimating traumatic themes.Wei Wei’s novels dilute the story of the novel with non-linear time and sentimental emotions,highlighting the traumatic symptoms of traumatic characters.The primary purpose of describing trauma is to treat trauma.Wei Wei uses engulfing narrative voice to dominate the trauma narrative.The writing of trauma in Wei Wei’s novels reached the height of structural trauma.In her novels,trauma not only refers to the trauma in a specific traumatic event,but is also abstracted as a kind of "Utopia" spiritual pursuit of trauma.The third chapter is a reflection on Wei Wei’s traumatic writing.This chapter analyzes the reasons for the transformation of Wei Wei’s traumatic writing and summarizes the value of Wei Wei’s traumatic writing based on comparison.The factors of the times have always existed in Wei Wei’s novels.Under the dual effects of internal and external factors,Wei Wei’s traumatic writing has changed,bringing the factors of the times to the foreground.Although the writing of trauma in Wei Wei’s novels has a dramatic "grand narrative" attempt,it is always based on non-dramatic "small narrative".The trauma writings by Wei Wei revealed the prevalence of trauma and showed the group portraits of people who survived the trauma.Trauma is a pain that cannot be forgotten.Wei Wei presents this special pain in a special way,making her novels unique.Wei Wei wrote both personal trauma and social trauma,but she didn’t simply divide them into two.She always focused on the individual in the times,and she insisted on revealing the problems of the time with individuals.Wei Wei has made personal trauma writing beyond a pure and private personal experience.At the same time,her social trauma writing points directly to the source of trauma.She presents the trauma in life and enriches the trauma writing in literature.