Female Narrative In The Literature Works Within Liberated Area

In recent years, research on female narrative in the literary works is making its first step along with the studying trend of the literary works within Liberated Areas in China in nineteen thirties. Four aspects of female narrative in literary works within Liberated Areas, as the present research, its structures and features, the influences of gender focalization on narrative and the relations between discourse and power, were discussed in the thesis to comprehend the regular pattern of female narrative and the factors having affected the female narrative in such kind of literary works, so that we could have a better understanding of the female lives surroundings and the gender relations represented in these unique works.Four rigid patterns were adopted to narrate the stories, making the female figures dull and tiresome. In love narrative, they were against the feudal marriage and raised love to a revolutionary stature while real love omitted and humanity oppressed and sex ignored. In the growing-up narrative, narrators usually selected young girls as the heroines, chose women in their forties as the counterparts and erected a set of women brought up by government officers. In the liberation narrative, women were masculinised abnormally as a narrative tool in comparison between the old and new society. In political rights narrative, female writers focused on anti-Japanese war and women's living situation, which were taken mostly by male writers as narrative tool to anti-feudalism and anti-oppression. Only female's physical liberation was expected while mental emancipation ignored. All these results have their own social origins.In the narrative focalisation, most writers were willing to choose the focalisation of the same gender as he was. Only a few took a cross-gender focalisation. But a third-person focalisation rather than the first-person narrative was favored as a result of the writers'lacking of factual life experience. However, male writers generally regarded women's emancipation only a part of social liberation, while female writers intensified on the individual emancipation which gave female writer much space and choice in narrative.Some narrative techniques were adopted to control the authority in the relations between discourse, gender and authority. However, female writers were apt to choose male status in narrative as a result of lacking confidence. And female authority was successively oppressed by male writers through varied ways and eventually lessened to an appendage to male authority. For political reasons and male narrative authority, female discourse gradually faded away in the literary works.