A Study On The Image Of Rural Women In Cities In The New Century Novels

Since the new century,more and more rural women moving into cities to seek their future because of the huge economic and cultural gap between urban and rural areas.This social phenomenon is reflected in novels at the same time,which reflect the writers’ concern for livelihood issues and highlight their social responsibility.The novel focuses on the life situation,ideology transformation and fate trajectory of the rural women in cities.Moulding to the women’s image of writers,has been inherited the writing of their living and spiritual dilemmas in the new-era literature,on this basis has presented the growth of feminine ego-subject sense.According to the different occupations and fate,the paper divides the women into three types,namely self-reliant winners,hard-working underclass workers and disoriented steetwalkers,and respectively discusses their life and mental state in the city,and analyzes the reasons why they have different fates.The erosion of humanity by desire,the alienation of female body by cities,and the envy among women have subtle influenced the rural women in cities,including their relationships,mindset and psychology.Most of them have lost themselves and their relationships have broken down because of the pursuit of money,so they feel confusion and miserable.Of course,some of them have gradually achieved financial independence by taking a job.This is because their ego-subject sense has gradually awakened and developed and strengthened under the influence of modern thought culture.They have established their self-worth and self-pursuit,and even realized their life ideal.Based on this,the paper discusses the significance of the image of the rural women in cities from three aspects: society,gender and literature,in order to inquire into the culture connotation from the image of the rural women in cities in the process of urbanization and its significance to contemporary literature.The novels show all kinds of confusion in the process of contemporary women’s growth,and have been seeking for breakthroughs on the original basis and have achieved remarkable results.Hope the paper can provide some benefits to female literary creation.