The New Historical Novel In The Horizon Of Feminism

During the 1980's and the 1990's, young writers who are influenced and enlightened by the western literary and cultural ideological trend, switched to the historical theme domain, have created large quantities of novels, expressing their question and disaffection to the traditional method of narrating "The History" in traditional novel, and described the unique "histories" in their eyes', this batch of novel is called as "the New Historical Novel". There were often some male writers at the beginning of the creation of the New Historical Novel, although they have carried on deconstruction to the mainstream historical concept in the process of seeking and re-interpreting of the histories, still displayed intense male central doctrine, in the personal historical narration ,they could only completed the replication of the original male authority and the male discourse, while the reality of women's history is covered once again, women's right and discourse lost once again.This paper is divided into three chapters: Chapter I reveals the history which women is written and covered once again, on the basis of the analysis of both the women's image are covered and women are desired in the novels written by male; Chapter II ,on the basis of the analysis of the New Historical Novel written by female, reveals the desire and possibility of the female to carry on historical writing, their unique historical-narrating way, as well as female's unique experience which is presented, thus makes the women's reality which is covered returned to original state, displays "the different historical scenery"; Chapter III emphatically analyzes the " absence" of male's image in the women's texts, the regression to the traditional motherhood presented in the image of mother molded by female ,as well as the writing of female discourse, thus points out the crisis and plight in the women's historical writing.