On Women's Consciousness In Tie Ning's Novels

Tiening, as one of the very influential writer in modern literary, exists on her own way all the time, has continually drawn the attention of the literary critics owe to her plentiful works. Her texts show vivid female consciousness. Focusing on Tiening herself and making a study of her novels, this dissertation intends to exhibit her originality by analyzing her female consciousness in her works of different period of writing.The Introduction give a brief statement of Tiening's process of writing, the contemporary study of her novels,and the reason why I choosing the topic.In Part one, treatise expatiates the pursuit of the female subjectivity. I intend to elaborate the female consciousness from point of female body writing and female sexuality. The writer shows her high praise towards the female healthy body, and affirmation to the self-admiration of the female protagonists. While this kind of praise reveals the female's respect to the body and their awakening, which can help the female have a better self-understand, self-achieving and also transmits her hope of constructing the female images. Meanwhile, Tiening boldly surf the area of the female's original desire, exhibit the awakening of the female body. Her works fell on directly the female's imperfect life, and mercilessly criticize the patriarchal society; they deconstruct and revolt to the male-centered discourse, highlight the originality of the female existence.Part two mainly focuses upon the typical image of characters. It elaborates the female consciousness by deconstructing the male images and rewriting the maternal images.Tiening breaks the restriction of the maternal image in traditional literature, deconstructs it, and mold some distinct maternal images. Meanwhile, through her continuously self-introspection,she also makes a further analysis of the factors that leads to the change of personality, which shows her deep comprehension and identification towards the female. Also, in order to call for maternity, Tiening devotes herself to establishing maternal subjectivity.By molding the selfish, cowardly male images, Tiening overthrows the perfect male image in the mainstream narration, profoundly analyzes the veracious nature of the male images as husband, son and father; and by disclosing statement of the male absence and shadowing the male images, she powerfully dispels and overthrows the traditional patriarchy culture and society.Part three is concerned about her unique writing techniques. It illustrates the female consciousness in her novels from her typical point of view of the third gender and her imaginable language. Tiening originally creates a third–gender point of view, which not only mends up the limitation of the wholly male point of view and the wholly female point of view, but also units the advantages of the two. As the third- gender point of view enables to gain strength and flexility that transcends the restriction of gender discourse, therefore, she can both insight the female life-experience of internal declaration,and inspect their defect and limitation.By combining the protagonists with various, specific and typical symbols, and using certain symbols of images to illustrate her works'themes, She unfolds a more expansive aesthetic space in her works. Some certain central images that often appear in her works have connection with the essence of the female, which evidently shows her standpoint of feminist writing.