A Study On The Xiao Hong’s "Abject" Writing

Xiao Hong is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. With theevaluation and study of her, from the last century thirty or forty’s, such as Lu Xun andHu Feng’s "National Fable" positioning to the feminist interpretation since the90s,The researches of Xiao Hong gradually from one to diversity, From the relativesilence to the formation of "Xiao Hong hot". Generally speaking, There are mainlythree kinds of interpretation to the degree: First, within the framework of the left-wingliterature studies, some researchers praise Xiao Hong’s imperialism, colonialism, classand enlightenment stance in her text; Second, within the framework of feministstudies, someone think that the female body experience writing of Xiao Hong in thetext subverts the grand narrative of the modern nation-state of the male nature; Third,the digging of the childhood experiences and children’s perspective. Threeinterpretation dimensions coexist, although enriches Xiao Hong’s research, but thefirst two dimensions completely put the nation-state and feminist in opposition, andcan not think deeply the contradiction and complexity in the Xiao Hong’s text thattangle and meantime can beyond the single face. The third study direction is oftenlimited in children’s perspective itself, and there is no attention to the interactionbetween the children’s perspective and feminism perspective. Therefore, the threedimensions of research are isolated and cannot form an organic and interactiveintegral.This paper argues that, Xiao Hong’s text entangled in gender, nation and class, butthey are not completely opposite, it is a combination of the overall. For the threeidentities, there is not consistent in Xiao Hong’s Pre-and post creation. Based on this,this paper uses the famous French theorist Christiva’s "abjection" theory, trying tounify the inherent nature of the grand narrative of the nation-state and feminism in thetext of Xiao Hong, and thus to identify the differences and changes of identitybetween gender, nation and class in Xiao Hong’s Pre-and post creation."Abjection" isthe things that mix identity, interfere system, destroy the order, that do not obey theboundary, location and the rules, and that is between the two, paradoxical,confounding things. It is connected with the concept of motherhood, female, body,horror, contamination, edges, etc. It is the disruptive thing that has been trying toexpel by patriarchal social order, but still can not completely wipe out.This paper is mainly divided into five parts. Introduction: overview of Xiao Hong research status and research significance of this article. Chapter One: From theconcept forms, and the relationship with subject identity and gender of "abjection" tointroduce Christiva’s "abjection" theory. This chapter is the theoretical support of thepaper. Chapter Two: From Xiao Hong’s “abject" experience in her life to see the innerAssociation between no father, no husband, no child of Xiao Hong and her "abject"writing. Chapter Three: In writing “abjection"-getting rid of "abjection"-identifying"abjection" as a clue to systematically analyze and discuss the complex relationshipbetween gender, nation and class in Xiao Hong’s creation. Introduce her how to getrid of abjection to convergence among the left-wing literature, and how to rewrite themodern national discussion through identifying abjection. Chapter Four: The power of"abject" writing. Xiao Hong identifies to female/weak/bottom. With the pen as aflag, through the writing/voice, she is playing the “horrible authority" of the"abjection".