Participating And Deviating

Since the new period, both Chinese society have undergone various sufferings from the changes and innovations. As an important constituent of Chinese literature in new period, we can see two major trends: "participating" and "deviating". These two seemingly conflicting trends reflect the differences in creation ideas and styles among female writers. Meanwhile, they represent the influence of reality and tradition on female. For the participating writers, they put stress on the concern of society and human life, whose criticism and agreement are more or less connected with politics. But what they lack is the characteristics of female own, which have not been fully displayed in contents or in forms. As for the "deviating" female writers, the situation is opposite. The literary works have begun to deviate form the traditional narrative view and pattern, and get free from the male-centered convention. Despite some defects and demerits, they have made remarkable achievements. To be specific, this dissertation consists of three parts:Part One: the beginning part makes a brief review of the development and history of the literary creation of Chinese modern female writers. It comes up with two major trends ?"participating" and "deviating". Through this retrospective analysis, it provides the background history for the separation of these two trends.Part Two: it analyzes the "participating" writers by dividing it into two sections. They are: coming up with the time; looking for the coordinate of both male and female. These two sections mainly show women's specific contribution in reflecting society and human being in their creation and also accompany the analysis with social background. Therefore, they can highlight the "participating" characteristics of this group of female writers.Part Three: it mainly discusses the "deviating" writers. It emphasizes theirdeviation from male-centered culture and the construction of female consciousness from two aspects: another viewing means; building up the room for women. It not only shows something in common among "deviating" female writers, but also stresses on their differences.Through the analysis of the two trends, this dissertation makes a clear outline of female creation in new period, thus to achieve the purpose of getting a macro understanding and view. These two trends are based on theoretical division, and this paper does intend to make any judgment on which one is correct or wrong. They are combined with each other and supplementary to each other, which forms the important motivation for the female creation to develop forward continuously.