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The Study Of The Revolting Narration In Female Writing In 1990s

Posted on:2005-01-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360125462528Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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From the beginning of 20th century, female writing has got a history of about a hundred year. In the tidal current of women " writing with blood instead of ink" , and female writing, which is a special practice of composition, has shown us a prosperous vision at the end of this century 90s. Multi-cultural context and the space supplied by globalization has provided an opportunity for female writing. Faced with the flushing theory of Western feminism discourse, female writers of 1990s seek the possibility of development in the si it of tradition and modernity. This paper tries to analyze the women writing in 90's from a narrative way by the means of using Western female's theory and narrative theory. There is three parts:Part one: Anti-family narration"Family" is the metaphor of man-centred system, and also the place that women had been bound service and materialized. As to a female, family does not only mean a social unit, but also bear the double meaning of culture and sociology. The revolt to family is the first step that women take when they become conscious of their main role and is the veiled narrative strategy women take under the strongman-centred cultural mechanism- "fight against the traditionfrom inside it" . On one hand, from the point view of daughter, the existing rationality of father-centred family is denied by the absence of father right or the substitute of the scene of father right; on the other hand, from the identification of a wife, and the perspective of sex, Phallus myth is broken out and the tradition sexpattern is overthrown by exposing men's depravation in sex. No matter from the point view of daughter or wife, this is the break up from inside the father-centred family itself and the negation of Women's fate submissive to family and reality. It can be called a witty and effective strategy that women in 90s have taken to overthrow the unreasonable culture.Part two: Anti-body narrationSince a long time, women's body had been lost in man's cultural imagination and value tendency, become a sign for sex or a tool of revolution used by man. In some way, the process in which women seek their own liberty is also, the process women recoded their bodies. Women in 90s began to fight bravely against "bodies not belong to themselves" . Lin Bai and Chen Ran find and appreciate their own bodies from female's perspective. Their texts show us women's prosperous desire for life and fresh feeling of flesh. In the deep passion for their own beautiful bodies, women find out a special way of talking to the world. "post-70s" women writers continues the subject of anti-body, and stress the body's pure corporality and desire. Body struggles against the current sex order by the way of unreasonable impulse, craziness and indulgence in the recoded of consumers' consciousness. However, under the push of this spree consume desire, women's bodies which indulged in the joyancy, are used by man's commodity rules, and unavoidably fall into the cultural trap made by man.Part three: Anti-history narrationIn the historical scene made up by man's discourse, woman is a kind of live existence without history. From the year of 1919, Bing Xin, Ding Ling and Zhang Ailing began to constitute their own history, while women lost their historical status in the illustration to themodern current narrative discourses. Women's historical constitution gradually comes to a compromise. In 90s, Zhang Jie, Tie Ning, Xu Xiaobin and such female writers began to write stories about the family of several female generations. They expose women's fate in the historical scenes of man. Firstly, they portray the distortion and manufacture made by history to man; secondly, they also describe women's revolution against man-centred and the restoration woman made to maternity history. Through the breakup of mother's mythology, they upset the traditional and sacred relationship between mother and daughter, and constructed a new type of relationship. Anti-history narration ponder on and analyze women's surviving condition, at the same time...
Keywords/Search Tags:1990s revolting narration, family body, history
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