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The Contadines In City

Posted on:2011-03-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M Y SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360302499875Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the process of modernization, the movement which countryside transfers city has been a historical necessity. Since 1990s, tens of thousands of farmers have came into the city and began to seek survival and development space, sets off a " farmer tide". The development of this group are getting more magnificent until the new century. A lot of countryside female have participated in this group. Literature and art based on real life, so literature narrative about countryside transfers city is becoming an important literary narrative trend. The authors have given women lots of care in numbers of literature works which reflected the "urban country folk". However, the literary critics consider that the analysis of "country town women" as an independent object is less. This is the significance of this paper. This paper is divided into three parts:In the first part, it explains the reason why the countryside female come to city. The town identity under modernity discourse is the history background. On the one hand, the countryside female have imagination and longing to urban civilization. It is subjective power. On the other hand, living space which the city provides is an objective condition. Rural poverty and gender oppression make more countryside female determined to flee the countryside.In the second part, it mainly displays some special migrant women's groups image, experience and situation. The writers show diversity images of the countryside female, Apart from the ordinary working women, there are groups of unique image, such as the nanny, prostitutes which the women comes into the city from the rural, the other women through the marriage. They have in common, but they have their own unique personality. This chapter demonstrates the plight of urban life and the course of struggle through depth analysis about the typical of image.In the third part, it describes the countryside female's variety of situations and the course spirit process of rntering into city's heterogeneity civilization and explores the fate's end-result. Under the impact of traditional village civilization and urban civilization, the countryside female who have entered the city are in difficult situation, in pursuit of identity between the two civilizations bring pains. Of course, modern civilization will gradually give their mark. They accept modern civilization's baptism and influence. Thought and value also unconsciously change. However, they can not be really accepted by the city, the experience of the city can not make them go back to a single starting point too, their change can not be recognized by the countryside. They lost the root of life, freely at the edge of town and countryside.This thesis considers the countryside female entering a city as study object, and rely on sociology and women studies. It uses in the way of read text, and discusses the survive situation of migrant women and destinies end-result in the process of modernization. At the same time, it makes the analysis of "country folk into the cities" literature more abundance.
Keywords/Search Tags:The countryside female entering a city, The reason entering city, Groups image, Survival situation
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