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Tough Women In Residents Of A City-Analyze The Female Image Of Wang Anyi’s Woks Since The Twentieth Nineties

Posted on:2013-11-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H P WuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371991778Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In the long history of China, Female groups were under control anddepressed in long-term, the emancipation of women went through a difficultcourse. Since the feudal society began, literature witnessed the whole processof women rights; some of the female images with its distinct personality givereaders a deep impression. Especially after the Revolution of1911and theMay Fourth Movement, the women who had learnt the new ideology usedliterature as weapon, they portrayed some female characters that resist the oldmoral code to wake up more women. Into the twentieth eighties later, theliterary circle of female attention reached a climax, female literature andfeminist voice were advancing wave upon wave, especially the contemporaryfemale writers talk about women’s experiences of growth and love in theirnovels. As an famous writer in the literary world, Wang Anyi chooses toobserve the unique perspective of a female, and molds lots of diversifiedfemale characters in her novels. Especially since the twentieth nineties, WangAnyi created a series of urban novels, with Shanghai as the story beginningbackground, told the women’s experiences of growing up who lived in thebottom of social life. She was concerned about the civilians perspective ofthese women, exploring their citizen qualities, such as stand on one’s own、tenacity, and praising they appeal to enrich the city who on behalf of Shanghaicity culture.Whether in the initial stage of her creation or today, Wang Anyi’s worksalways keep her unique style, and are studied by lots of scholars. Many essayschoose different visual angle to read her novels, some of them analyze thecharacters, and some conclude the style of narration and language, and so on.In addition, Wang Anyi is a female writer, under the background that thewomen doctrine is encouraged, the female characters become the focal pointin many essays. Since the twentieth nineties, Wang Anyi has created a seriesof urban novels, some of the female images in works, such as Wang Qiyao, YuXiaoqiu, and Fu Ping and so on. They were portrayed to express the thinkingand the understanding about the life of Wang Anyi, they are worth to bediscuss. At the same time, she continued to think about questions of the novels and blended her understanding of the Arts into works. Just as Wang Anyi said,〝Any excellent novels are not only make the real world to restore, but topursue a more profound ideological realm. On the public live performances, itsmeaning not stay in the subject itself." In her urban novels, such asChanghenge, Fuping, Taozhiyaoyao and so on, not only tell us the story aboutthe girls growth, but also explore their spiritual world. This article attempts tosummarize their common characters after combing out the novels, andanalyzes its forming reasons, and then discusses the special methods of WangAnyi’s describing the females.
Keywords/Search Tags:Wang Anyi, the novels, the Female image, the twentiethnineties, Shanghai
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