On The Transmutation Of Female Consciousness In

The famous Chinese-American writer Yu Lihua’s works is quite rich, she is known as “theoriginator of overseas student’s literature”. The theme of her works is changeable, rich in content,keeping pace with the times, continuous innovation, reflected in the students of exotic life andspiritual difficulties in such aspects as Chinese literature madman indelible contribution. Amongthe overseas Chinese women concern more reflects her keen observation and delicate sensibility,his works often women are located in the center, with the female as the main description object,focusing on the emotional world of women hold and show, with a beautiful, gentle, delicateeuphemism beauty of art. At present, studies on her works research community has madeachievements, but the study on the connotation and development of female consciousness is notdeep enough.The focus of this paper is to study the evolution process of her female consciousness. Theauthor’s life for her and different periods of work analysis, found her female consciousness hasexperienced from the initial budding to later growth and promotion to mature and rationalprocess, this process also reflected the female characters portrayed in her works in the body.This paper is divided into three parts. The first part is the introduction, the second part is themain body, is composed of three chapters, the last part is the conclusion.The introduction part, first introduces the life and creation of writer, Her novels often makethe female in the center position, with the female as the main description object, focusing on theemotional world of women hold and show, show overseas Chinese women in the west cultureunder the collision of life circumstances and psychological process to the readers. Secondly,from the aspects of theme, subject matter and artistic characteristics to clarify the academicresearch status of her. academic circles set off a wave of overseas Chinese literature researchupsurge which for her research, the author thinks that mostly remain in the interpretation of the“rootless” seek national identity theme, ignored the analysis and research on the uniqueness ofthe individual life of immigrant women. Finally the writer point out the significance of this study.To neglect the study for before the female consciousness, this thesis try to unscramble, focus onthe life and psychology of women in her works, mining for Yu Lihua’s the evolution process offemale consciousness for decades, to broaden her research perspective. In the body part, the first chapter is the ingrained traditional feminine–maternal, wife, anddaughter of. Influenced by the motherland male and Western culture to promote women shouldreturn tithe family’s “feminine mystique”, first came to the exotic Yu Lihua, with most of theoverseas Chinese women, facing the pressure of life and the plight of the spirit, femaleconsciousness is lack of purpose, early works only on the male center for revealing and criticism,the shape of the women are subject to men and family, the lack of the spirit of resistance of self.Author foothold failed to stand than her characters of high some, for the plight and suffering ofwomen can not find a way out.The second chapter is to highlight the self consciousness of modern women. In twentiethCentury70time, Western ushered in the second wave of the feminist movement,“social gender”made the western feminine identity again to the self value and rights. In the new cultural contextof western feminism, her female consciousness to grow and improve, she began to pay attentionto the spiritual dilemma in “the edge of the edge” of the Chinese women, began to seek a wayout from the western culture, the work through the performance of female strong awareness ofself-help book written in Chinese women self-help and breakthrough of two kinds of culturecollision the.Mature western culture under the fusion of female consciousness in chapter third. In her lateryears, Yu Lihua slowly holds to the Western cultural tolerance calm attitude and objectivecomprehensive review to the motherland culture, life and spiritual world of the overseas Chinesewomen were dig deeper, to develop their description in the new problems under the newsituation reflects the creation field of vision, reveals the weakness of human nature whichwomen heart has given, humanistic care for men, called on the view of gender harmony, morereflect deepening the theme of the works, the breakthrough and successfully embodies theauthor’s female consciousness with the accumulation of experience and the peace of mind andbecome mature.Finally, in the conclusion part, the writer makes a summary of the evolution process and theconnotation of Yu Lihua’s female consciousness. Yu Lihua has not strong female consciousnessin the earlier years of the United States, under the influence of Western feminist culture, herfeminist consciousness is growing, appeal to women to realize their value, later her attention tointergenerational conflict and aging, humane care for both sexes, reveal the maturity of her female consciousness. especially she is respected by the Oriental feminism, is even morehighlights the female should have the spirit of the pursuit of.