| Sheng Keyi enters the literary circle at the beginning of the new century.The tone of her works is stern and sharp.These works often directly depict the living conditions of ordinary people,mirror contemporary life with its conflicts,present the pains of life,reveal human weaknesses and explore the relationship between people and city.As a result,they offer a picture of “the silent majority” and a serious “human tragicomedy”.The specific historical background and the rich life experience of a member of the post-1970 s generation enable her to sympathize with the hard but resilient living condition of the lower class people.Therefore her works distinctly show her feelings towards the lower class.When she becomes a professional writer and finds herself at the center of a city,she notices the spiritual bewilderment of women with her feminine awareness and explores potential spiritual outlet for women.After her settlement in Beijing as a scholar within the mainstream system,her fields of concern expand constantly.She attempts to restore the distorted and dilapidated image of the village,constructing an “abnormal” utopian society while building a cold world of life.This shows her awareness of social responsibility as a scholar.In this stage,her writing style tends to be calm and tender,her narrative strategy is more mature,and her writing mode undergoes drastic transformation.From external exploration of living conditions,to in-depth analysis of the spiritual world,to inward stare of life itself and vigorous observation of social transformation.This shows Sheng Keyi's growth as a writer,her enriching genre structure,as well as her expanding narrative space.This paper,roughly following chronological order,sums up the development sequence of Sheng Keyi's novels in terms of genre,style and textualawareness,and explores the relationship between this development and the writer's times,identity and psychology.On this basis,the paper further studies the evolution of this writer's creation. |
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