A Study Of Female Writers' New Historical Novels In The 1990s

When it comes to new historical novels,male writers and their works first come to mind while female's new historical novels are rarely noticed.Female writers have already got into the field of new historical novels since the late 1980s,and their work developed rapidly with strong momentum in the 1990s,under the circumstance of social pluralism and openness,prevalence of feminist thought and female writing.The new historical novels created by female writers in the 1990s are not only impressive in quantity,but also in quality;not only rich in contents and styles,but also featuring female 's distinct characteristics.According to subject and content,it can be roughly divided into three categories-the social history from the female perspective,the personal history of the individual destiny,and the family history tracing the family pedigree.The new historical novels of female writers contain two swords,one pointing to male writers' new historical novels,while the other pointing to historical novels that uphold traditional concepts,especially revolutionary historical novels.It is in comparison with these two kinds of traditional historical novels that the female new historical novels gradually set their own uniqueness.On the vertical axis of female's historical writing,from revolutionary historical novels to new historical novels,the relationship between history and women changes from harmony to indifference and expulsion,with women's self-consciousness gradually awakening.As a result,the theme changed from social life to family life and the tone shifted from joy to grief and ups and downs,which exactly goes back in time and follows the female writing tradition of the 1940s.On the horizontal axis of the overall creation of this kind of novels,female writers mainly deconstruct history,compared with male writers,from the perspective of gender,and try to set a history of women from women's perspective and with women's lives and emotions as the foundation.In addition,the narrative style is also more feminine,showing a distinctive color combining poetic and sorcery.Despite the unique value and contributions,the creation of female writers' new historical novels in the 1990s also faces crises and confusions to a large extent due to rising gender awareness of women writers.They are mainly manifested in two aspects:First,the foundation of women's history and the sense of history are both thin;second,women's self-expression is trapped in a narrowly female position and fail to get out of the shadow of male authority thoroughly.Writing with their unique perception and experience,female writers opened up a new world for female writing,and made up for the deficiencies of the monotonous writing of new historical novels.However,they also need to go deeper into a broader space in history,culture,humanity and female.