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Yan Geling Novel Female Subject Theory

Posted on:2013-05-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L J WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330374977066Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Since1981, Yan Geling has created more than70novels in these30years. These fictions are very extensive in the content, also showingthe way of evolution, but about the thinking of humanity and femaleexperience is always the mail parts. Before going aboard, the worksmainly about the Youth Story and Military Life time. After she emigratedto the USA, the main content of her work moved to Emigrations. Onceshe getting settle in the USA, her work mainly for the thinking of thehomeland and her self’s growing stories. When travelled to Africa, thepure "Chinese Living in Africa" was the main theme. As an EmigrationalWriter, her life experience is the most precious treasure for her works.Immigration brings her the changing of culture, also with theself-purchasing of every single live, make the writer profoundly thinkingabout history and humanity, and open her mind for creation, also with akind of calm through all the writing.Yan Geling created a wonderful female world from her ownexperience, in the meantime, created some typical female image.Some are the Political soldiers; some are abroad immigrated women,still some village women.Yan Geling put his feminism thought in his women literaryimplicatively. Mainly in some aspects, first, focusing on maternity.Maternity is propagated infinitely in his writing. NO matter overseasChinese, Fusang, a prostitute or women in China mainland. Even someoverseas female students and Guofu bride who were confined in thehouse. They all have maternity without exception. This personalityincludes tolerance, kindness, adamancy and a kind of spirits,self-sacrifice, but for others.Second, showing the self-conscious offemale. Near20years aboard life, from the conflict of culture differenceand the departs. Before living the homeland, her work showing the female conscious, also the doublt and the criticize to the political history,in order to enhance the existence of the female in the social life. Whenin USA, from the difference culture environments from the east and thewest, the female image in her work is to show a kind of feeling of "weakwoman still strong”. In some extent, relapse the writers doublt of her ownidentity. Reading some article about the homeland, the female imagesare all in the historical and national environment, to show the strongresistant spirit. They are all based on our own culture. Through theanalysis of political power, national culture and knowledge, to show herinsist of female self-conscious.
Keywords/Search Tags:Yan Geling, image of women, female consciousness, motherhood, folk
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