The Discussion Of Yan Geling’s Continental Theme Novles From The Perspective Of Female And Historical Writing

Yan Geling is one famous female writer,who has rich life experience.Her domestic life and overseas experience are valuable wealth to her writing.Her novles portray the growth of unimportant persons in historical background.This thesis takes her continental theme novles as objects of study,from the feminist and historical perspective to analyse deeply.The Introduction summarizes Yan Geling’s literary creation,the research status of academic circle, the research method and meaning of this paper.The first chapter mainly divides the female images into three parts:daughters,wives and mothers.To daughters,this paper mainly points out the traditional nature and modernity of them.The wives are divided into two different styles:equal wives and unequal wives, according to the status of male and female in the family.The mothers are also divided into two types:be perfectly justifiable mothers and unclear identity mothers.All these female images overthrow the final conclusion about sexual relations to some extent and stress the value of female.The second chapter analyses the female images furtherly,from the perspective of external world and internal world to explain their miserable fate.Unyielding philosophy of existence helps them to pass the hard times,change the weak situation of female.The third chapter approaches the subject from historical angle,through the daily life of ordinary women to restore the truth of history which is dominated by them,mitigating the effect of grand historical narrative. The connection of synchronic and diachronic description makes her works a rounded system,which can narrate the development of history and enrich the dramatic female images of the works.The Epilogue part briefly introduces the development of Chinese Female Literature since Nineteen eighties and compares Yan Geling’s writing style with other female writers who live in the same period to show her innovation.