A Superficial Exploration Of The Female Image Pattern In "Literature Of The Cultural Revolution"

Female image is a kind of artistic symbol which is full of cultural implication and aesthetic meaning in Chinese poem tradition. In the period of"the Cultural Revolution"when the political consciousness was above all the things, the female image had lost its traditional aesthetic significance. People in the very ages all trust in the words"The men and women are the very same", and believed that the equality between both sexes as well as Women's Liberation in China had already come true. In such a cultural atmosphere,"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"created the works with highly consistent political words, and molded the female image narrative-rhetorically on a pattern which is asexual, sexless, unfeeling, loveless, and lack of desire.There are five parts in this paper. The first part is an introduction. It elaborates the definition, general situation and the current research state of"Literature of the Cultural Revolution", emphatically analyses the characteristic and meaning of the research on"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"under a gender vision, and illustrates this paper's research theme and approach. Here is to discuss the female image patterns in"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"from a gender angle of view. The second part is to investigate how"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"molded the female image rhetorically. This part takes apart the appearance description of female, flower imagery and tree image in the text, and then tries to find out the feature of female sexual temperament in"Literature of the Cultural Revolution". The third part is to explore and hackle the relations between both sexes, discuss the gender context of"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"and the gender roles played as Father and Mother by men and women——which are all absent in the text, and attempt to separate out the position feature of female gender role. The forth part is to find the narration format out of the text by reading certain"special creation"of"Literature of theCultural Revolution", and dialysis its narrative consciousness. Literary creation turned to be nonsexual and virile, lost love discourse, and designed the plots and female role recessively with masculinist consciousness. The characteristic of female gender representation of"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"emerged from the three kinds of creation phenomenon which was above-mentioned. Finally is a summary. It summarizes the female image of"Literature of the Cultural Revolution"in the aspects of female sexual temperament, female gender role position and female gender representation. In the context of sexual equality, female had been molded into a particular image pattern of the especial ages.