Rsearch On Female "Healing" In Yoshimoto Banana6s Works In The Post-modern Context

Yoshimoto Banana is called the "literary Diva" in Japan,whose work "Kitchen" has become the focus of Japanese literary world.After that,all of the works are almost popular bestseller listand have been spread over more than 30 countries.Yoshimoto Banana's creations have the unique side of women,and are good at expressing emotions for the Human communication.Therefore,her works are favored by the readers and generates the "Yoshimoto Banana heat" phenomenon in the world.In the process of the globalization of Western Post-modernism,Japan entered a Post-modern society.The rapid development of technology and economy brought people satisfaction of material.On the contrary,occurred the crisis of human spirit.Yoshimoto Banana lived in the context of post-modern society,was deeply influenced by the culture.In the novel,it expressed the inner world and the living state of "female" in the post-modern context.The women were self-lost,lonely,confused,unsure and traumatic psychologically.She started with social problems and combined with the practical problems,indicated a spiritual path to the light and restored the fragile heart for a new generation of women.Moreover,she also advocated positive and optimistic attitude towards life,emphasized the communication between man and man,man and society,man and nature,in order to resist spiritual pains from the post-modern society.Which achieved a high social repercussions and then the “healing”became her label.The work based on the background of post-modern culture,analyzed women's growth process in Yoshimoto Banana' works.Thereby,explored deeply Yoshimoto Banana' thinking of post-modern society,exploration of new women and the meanings to the word of her "healing novel".The thesis is composed of three parts for introduction,text and conclusion.The introduction is a brief introduction to the author,herworks,research status at home and abroad,and the research direction of the thesis.This text is composed of three chapters.The first chapter,from the impact of western post-modern cultural thoughts,the emergence of postwar Japan's "cure" craze and Yoshimoto Banana's personal growth experience analyzes the background factors of Yoshimoto Banana's "healing" literature.The second chapter revels the connotation of female healing in Yoshimoto banana's works from self-lost of "female" in the post-modern context,with the help of "the other" seeking self and self regression of "female".In the end,explains the significance of "female healing" in Yoshimoto banana's works from the aspects of reflections on the post-modernity,exploration of the new female and the meanings to the word.The epilogue then summarily states the full text.