Widow Image In Contemporary Novels From The Gender Perspective

From ancient times, there are so many widow image in Chinese literary works.the widow is the victim of the feudal patriarchy culture. In the feudal society, the powerful patriarchy confined to their thoughts and emotions, they are mostly in the plight of material deprivation and emotional loneliness and depression state of mind. With the rise of the "May 4th" New Culture Movement, the widow independent significance as a "person" has been found. In contemporary literature, the widow images in literary works have new type series, with the "new enlightenment" ideological trend and the rise of gender culture study, female image of a further in-depth development of cultural studies, gender perspective of research and the female image has become a subject of concern. Widow image affected by gender writing, they presents different characteristics in the text, male writers reveals the patriarchal ideology intentionally or unintentionally in the text, female writer in contrast to reveal female consciousness in the text. This article mainly including contemporary literature "seventeen years" period and new period novels as the research scope, not including literary creation remained relatively stagnant period of " the Great Cultural Revolution". Based on gender perspectives about the gender of the widow image writing carries on the analysis and research, analysis the widow the aesthetic significance of image and reflection about the harmony between gender poetics, pay attention to vulnerable groups and emancipation of women.This article mainly is divided into six parts, the first part of the first is about the theoretical definition and connotation of widow image. Second, from a perspective of social gender perspective about the widow image thinking. Again, combing the widow image of the evolution of literary history and the connotation of different image era culture under the background of the widow.The second part is about widow’s image in the process of contemporary novels, they are summarized and classified according to different types, mainly divided into three categories:surrender to under the patriarchal system of the widow image, the widow of iron lost to struggle in the attic, rupture the patriarchal barriers for the widow of self image. Further research of different types of widow image contains rich connotation and complex causes, reveal the feudal patriarchal culture of the widow’s mutilated, explore the hard way of the widow’s female self-consciousness awakening.The third part discusses the male writing and widow’s image in the contemporary novels, mainly from the Subject matter, discourse, perspective aspects discussed. Male writers used to select the grand theme, the text presents a model of male discourse hegemony, and male writers always from the perspective of a male female images, thus caused the widow of women in the edge position in novels, so they are in a state of "absence".The fourth part discusses the female writing and widow’s image in the contemporary novels, writers used to select trivial subjects that close to everyday life, in terms of discourse patterns have their own unique way of narration, and from the female perspective, focusing on women, as the widow of women unique life experience and self subjectivity in the text.The fifth part analysis the widow image from the perspective of gender, focus on the relationship between the object of literary works and writers creation subject, on the one hand, in the analysis of male writers thought deeply rooted patriarchal discourse with the patriarchal ideology, the Woman’s Liberation is a long way. on the other hand, analyze the writer’s female consciousness and female survival plight of anxiety.The sixth part of the study analyze widow image of value and rational reflection in contemporary novels, mainly divided into two aspects, literature and culture. Literature level mainly aesthetic significance of the coexistence of beauty and ugliness, analyze the Poetics of Gender.The cultural reflection is mainly about the care of vulnerable groups and social problems such as the Woman’s Liberation.