Gentle Dagger

Henan female writer Qiaoye, was born in late 1970s, came into the literary field in the nineties of the last century and attracted much more attention in recent years. Qiaoye’s literature creation began with the prose and she has ever been named the "Top Ten Youth Literature Writer". Then she got a success transformation from the creation of prose into novels writing and gradually formed her own personal identity in literary creation. After reading Qiaoye’s works, we would have a deep impression of her sharp, honest and frankly language characters. Moreover, her works just like a dagger thrust into your heart and bring continual pain. From her works, we can find that she is not an aggressive critic, but an undertaker of social grief. Her works just like using a dagger stab to others but also prick to herself. Joe gives the maximum of faith and courage to show us the reality of society and human nature. This passage will find the characters of Qiaoye’s novel, especially in the description of gender discrimination, urban-rural disparity and the sadness of humanity after scrupulous reading. At last, it gives a short comment on the characters of Qiaoye’s works and explores the significance and unique charm of Qiaoye in the field of oriental contemporary literary.This passage includes four chapters as follows:The first chapter mainly discusses the process of female’s wakening of self-consciousness and pursuit of self-value in Choye’s novels. The female in novels always suffered much more physical or mental agony, which causing a contradictory to traditional ethics, experienced women’s unique role in life and tried to pursue self-value. These women always experience a double struggle of mentality and spirituality. This chapter mainly contains three parts, the awakening of gender difference, the struggle of female self redemption and looking for female self identity. Qiaoye’s novels unique literary value is to give a special attention in female’s mental and spiritual world.The second chapter discusses the contradiction and embarrassment during rural urbanization in Qiaoye’s novels, which bringing tremendous impact to urban and rural. The chapter mainly has three parts:peasants’ city identity in rural urbanization, the complementary of urban-rural civilization and the real humanity hiding in "Relocation". What’s more, it would give a deep discussion of the writer’s, as a returnee in novel, narration position and expressive effect. In the novel, Qiaoye gives a sharp describing to dig out the lost of traditional ethics in modern commercial society, emptiness in spiritual world and struggling with the humanity in desire. In demolition, she exposed the changes of peasants during the urbanization, provided us a new rational perspective to peasants, and giving a introspection to social transformation in rural china, as well as the peasants in transformation.The third chapter mainly discusses Qiaoye’s latest historical novel on "the Great Cultural Revolution". The writer tried to analysis the ignored "silent majority" in "the Great Cultural Revolution of china" and the sin under their commonplace appearance with the view of psychology. All in all, the writer indeed to warning people to admit your guilt in history and give redemption to yourself. This chapter mainly has two parts:criticizing collective unconscious in history and give a interrogation of human nature of modern youth. What makes the collective crazy in "the Great Cultural Revolution" is wild violence and false rights. And behind the collective unconscious crime is the ugly human nature. Choye’s novel is like a sharp scalpel not only to discover the sin of collective unconscious in crazy history times, but also present retain the historical tragedy of the evil of human nature.The fourth chapter focuses on writer’s writing attitude and writing ideal. Qiaoye’s novels are sharp and gentle, seemingly contradictory fusion makes her unique. She was able to sneak into people’s hearts to unveiled the inner pain, but give a warmly charity to relief the pain and lick all wounds in cruelty world. She always insists on writing from human nature and never makes hasty moral judgment to characters in novel. Honestly speaking, she takes her own heart to novel writing and gives deep sympathy and understanding to all suffering and pain. The writer was linked his compassion to warmly words which bringing poetic hope to readers. This chapter mainly states in three aspects, narrative statement without ethics, humble writing attitude and meritorious humanism. At last, it will give a deep thinking of the characters of Qiaoye’s novels.