Siren Essay Research

Siren,though it is a name full of temptation and dangerous like a foppish banshee,attracts people and makes them indulges into it unconsciously.As her name,her writings also have the magic power which can deterrence souls directly and make people be confused with the feeling of loving and hurting.Coming from Hubei Province,Siren went south to Guangdong for over ten years,and she wrote two collection of essays: An Unknown Life;Anonymous,also becomes the representative person of Labor literature and top writes of present prose.Since the reform and opening up,with the implementation of market economy system and the opening of the population movement policy,there was an increasing number of people chose to leave hometown and make a living in Guangdong.Then form the literature which reflects the life of migrant workers.Labor literature,forming with the era background of “Working in south”since the reform and opening up,nearly had three decades of exploration from the late eighties to the present.However,the “labor literature” was always at the edge in the long term development.Ignoring by mainstream literature and the neutral attitude of academics,made it was hard for“labor literature” to be a part of mainstream literature.The awkward situation of “labor literature” did not get broken until the appearance of some outstanding writers in the new century,such as Shiyue Wang,Xiaoqiong Zheng and Siren,they brought new vitality to “labor literature”.Their works are gratifying no matter in quantity or quality.As a focus of creating prose,Siren attracted lots of persons' attention for its exquisite in description the working life and its close attention to self-spirit.This passage would try to study the ideological and artistic of Siren's prose through self-mirroring and presence experience.This article is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is introduction,also the idea of author to write,which mainly talks about the origin of this topic,and to study the history and current situation,to research the methods and meanings,to research contents and purposes.With Siren's “Labor prose” as the dominant factor of the second chapter,the author will divide and contrast the types of "Labor literature".By comparing the Siren's prose with the literary creation of Xiaoqiong Zheng,and researching Siren's personality and writing style,this chapter summarizes the unique poetic beauty of Siren's prose in the field of "Labor literature".The third chapters,elaborates the self-mirroring of Siren's prose,which is based on Lakang's Mirror theory,and it discuss how did Siren looked herself in the mirror constantly in the “Unknown life”.Besides,this article not only tries to explore the awakening of female consciousness but also explore the gap between the self and the real world in Siren's prose.It also tries to reveal the expressions to the human's obscure side in Siren's prose.The fourth chapter is the presentexperience of Siren's prose.The author leads into the article from the phenomenon of present proses' sudden emergence in recent years.Then it discusses the present experience of Siren's prose and modern breakthrough of prose from three aspects: body writing;bottom writing and the presence of prose.The fifth chapter discusses the artistic characteristic and aesthetics values of Siren's prose,and it elaborates mainly from four aspects: dense language and imagery;the catch of “moment”(Impression description);imagination and jumping narrative;the poetic temperament of prose.At last,the author will sort out the development context of Siren's prose,tries to analyze Siren's writing dilemma and prospect her creative trend in the future,and make an objective evaluation to Siren's prose in the aspects of society,literature and culture.