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Revolutionary Literature And Women Characters

Posted on:2008-07-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J XiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360212992889Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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The Revolutionary Literature is an important part of the Chinese literature in the 20th century, "ZuoYi" Literature in the 20-30 age, the Liberated Areas of Literature in the 1940s, the Socialist Literature in the 50-60 age, and Cultural Revolution in the 60-70 age, are the different historical periods of specific form of Revolutionary literature.The control and regulating shaped in the Revolutionary Literature can be seen by the writer from the characters, especially those female images. For example, Li Shuangshuang, Lin Daojing, Jiangjie, Fang Haizhen and so on. From "Zuoyi" to "Cultural Revolution", female images in the Revolutionary Literature has a change process which best reflects the effection of the revolution. This paper embodies two parts: "Love" and "Body", To the female image, it is the closest point. Due to women's sensitive nature, they become the best spokesmen who can tell the affection between love and revolution.; and their body carries a writer creative imagination which become the used symbols most commonly.This first chapter in this article : revolution and love, discuss the revolution and love relationships from four aspects. In "Zuoyi" period, love is the important component in the Revolutionary Literary. Yan'an art from the Liberated Areas, the form of love has undergone a change, the love of "normal", "typical" love transformed into an "atypical"; Meanwhile, the "typical" love in the text also occupy a place , just like vitamins, this "typical" love in the text assurance the literature did't be controled by the politic totally, just what they appearance in Cultural Revolution. The love life of Revolutionary women reflects the relationships between the revolution and the love.In the second chapter, I discussed the existence of female body in the revolutionary literature, In the "Zuoyi"literature, the female body is the author focuses on the target. In the socialist literature, female body are the ideological symbols. In order to make it "incorporate" into its self-system, the revolution has a comprehensive transformation. There are two ways to reform : labor and heroic treatment. After these two ways, female body lost its own sex, and become the women in Cultural Revolution Literature. When all the women become stereotyped image of the "Iron Lady", the literature bearing the image also walked to the end.
Keywords/Search Tags:Revolutionary Literature, Female image, Transformation, Love, Body
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