Xukun's Novels In The Post-Modernism Field Of Vision

As a scholar female writer, Xukun described the Chinese intellectual's helplessness and awkwardness in the social transition period using a kind of relaxed and humorous way ,when she entered the literary arena initially. She stripped the intellectual's laughable masks and myth. After 1990's intermediate period, her creation changed to the feminine angle writing the women's survival condition and difficult position in the modern commercial society in the cities.These novels explores the feminine inner world and destiny by determination feminine consciousness. She subverted the male power center culture and argued for the feminine words power to display the knowledge feminine independence and spiritual pursuit. Xukun's novel has the obvious post-modern characteristics both in language and thought. This thesis focuses on the post-modernism characteristics and the special charm of Xukun's novels, which includes the intellectual myth subversion, dispelling masculine culture and pursuing the feminine consciousness , as well as personalized narrative words .The introduction attempts to reveal the features of Xukun's works in different times and their underlying reasons.Chapter one mainly analyzes the characteristics in the post-modernism subversion in Xukun's novels. This part elaborates in three aspects,including the intellectual present situation, figure resolution and the personality reality. The market economy and commercial character in China initiated the intellectual to be puzzled and to be confused. The intellectual's energetic torchbearer status has been subverted by transitional period of China, they have become unnecessary people. When they attempted to integrate the ordinary world and try to become the populace, their thought and behavior were still unable to adapt the changing society. Some of them have lost the independent personality and the direction which they should have. Xukun writes freely to subvert the intellectual tradition value. Intellectual's true self returns to original state in her works. And the novels style is in a relaxed free way, which can causes the readers ponder and have question consciousness.Chapter two mainly discusses four aspects from the subversion consciousness, pursuing feminine words power, self-interrogatory of the women in cities and searching for the spiritual home. Xukun narrates the men and women in the metropolis through unusual wisdom and rationality of the other women writers. She carries on the subversion and resolution to the impregnable male power culture in"the feminine status".And at the same time, she discusses the women's self-respect and self-confident to their love, family and enterprise, looking for warm and joyful spiritual home for them.Chapter three elaborates Xukun's individual standpoint in narration.This part mainly discusses the game narration and the non-sex narration.In today's environment, the outstanding figures culture transforms to the common custom culture.Xukun's individual standpoint in narration has a new kind of cultural color.Many serious subjects have turned into a kind of play in her works. Therefore, her novel gives us humorous carefree feeling. Her works appears virilescent extremely, and her writing style is sharp and coldly. This kind of surmounting sex writing is extremely rare in other feminine novels.The conclusion is made on the base of summarizing all the texts , pointing out shortcoming of Xukun's works, simultaneously summarizing the characteristics and the charm that Xukun's novels have.