Research About Yan Geling's Homosexuality Fiction

Yan Geling is the most eye-catching overseas Chinese writer. She was born in 1958 and entered the army as a soldier artist when she was 12 years old. She experienced the Cultural Revolution in the best time of her life and had been a war correspondent when she was 20.After the collapse of her first marriage, she began to learn English from the ABC and then went abroad to study in America. This special experience of immigrant enabled her to have access to a large number of socially marginalized groups and have a profound psychological experience. Because of the relatively relaxed environment of writing abroad, her novels are mainly based on the background of Chinese Cultural Revolution and the immigration. Her writing tends to be delicate and sensitive from the female's perspective, presenting rough appearance of life and blending narrative strategy, by which leading the readers into the character's vast and complicated inner world, and exploring the broad and deep human nature.This article is based on the research of Yan Geling's five homosexual novels: White Snake, Magic Dan, Adam Is Also Eve, the Story in School, White Sparrow. Through researching such type of novels as Yan Geling's, this paper aims at exploring the reasons for its creation, the narrative arrangements, and the unique setting of the aesthetic image, thus to highlight the unique characteristics of Yan Geling's novels.The body of the paper: The first section discusses the reason for writing homosexual novels. By presenting Yan Geling's unique experiences in China's Cultural Revolution, her migration experience and the influence of Freud's theory, the paper analyzes and summarizes the cause of her concerning about such marginalized type of writing; the second part discusses the artistic features of Yan Geling's homosexual novels which emphasizes the unique feature in writing such marginalized type novels from the perspective of analyzing aesthetic image, which is rich in meaning and aesthetic sense; the third section focuses on the specific narrative strategy in Yan Geling's novels. It ranges from the introduction of the narrative point of view, the use of polyphony, irony and other theories which features Yan Geling's novels by the narrative subtlety in the novel arrangements.