From The Private Room To The Open Space

In Chinese contemporary literature history, Lin Bai is classified as one of the "feministwriters". In the1980s and1990s, her early works indeed takes the private experience ofwomen as the main object of description. However, it is inaccurate to believe that the mainobjective of her works is against the mainstream and the center of male discourse. In Lin Bai’searly creations, she concentrated on how to reveal the individual excellence of female in lieuof making rebellion of mainstream discourse. She built an overlapping world emphasizing thestatus of female, and used the poetic speech to maintain the beauty, sorrow and dignity offemale. In the closed private room, the personal sentiments and confusion concealed in herworks were disclosed. In2000, Lin Bai’s creation came into the transformation stage. Thewomen enclosed in the private room almost disappeared. Lin Bai began to make creationsfrom the perspective of outside spacious world. The self-consciousness embodied in theemotion gets fresh elements in reality. In2007, Lin Bai’s new work showed hertransformation again. In another dimension, she returned to herself memory and placed it in abroader civil field. The process of memorization release demonstrated her mind-blowing afterthe reconciliation with the outside world.Lin Bai began to write novels in the1980s, and made transformation in the early21stcentury, finally returned to self in2007. The style of her creations changes from the sharpsensitive to the open-minded calm. This process shows her growth and maturity. Nevertheless,also keeping a different attitude towards the world, she has always uphold the consistentprinciple of writing from the private room to the opening space. In her creations, she nevergive up the "retrospective" writing style and the truth-reflective creation attitude. It is suchperseverance that makes Lin Bai find the source of growth and the inward reality.The three stages of Lin Bai’s novel writings respectively have obvious themes and styles.The continuous change highlights that the writer is striving for a breakthrough in the writingand shows the creativity of subject. Simultaneously, the persistent writing attitude witnessesher growth and maturation in the transformation. By reviewing her writing process, we cansee that each stage has its independent characteristic. This paper will make in-depth analysisof the commonality in Lin Bai’s novels to achieve the comprehensive understanding of her creations.