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Study On The Construction Of The Black Feminine Authority Of Salvage The Bones

Posted on:2019-11-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330572460740Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Feminist narratology is a combination of feminist literary criticism which focused on the internal structure of the text and the various elements and structuralism narratology which centered on the social,historical and cultural environment outside the text,since 1980 s.Feminist narratology is a new interdisciplinary theory of literary critisim,which break the formalistic criticism between the political and cultural criticisms' antithetic and make an integration among the literary aesthetics research,social ideology analysis,social identity,narrative mode.Meanwhile,it pay attention to the authorship of sexuality how to apply,repudiate,resist and overturn the male authority for the object of construction her own authority.Susan Lanser,the founder of this theory believe that one narrative form is closely related to the external factors such as history,culture,social environment etc,and the narrator in the feminist text can construct the female subjectivity and the female narrative authority by choosing a certain narrative form.This paper will combine the African-American feminist literary criticism to the black feminist narrative criticism practice.The author gives Easch,the central character of the novel,the narrator's privilege.The whole novel reverberate the Easch's narrative voice formulates the open personal narrative voice.This paper will be based on the feminist narratolgy,combine the classical narratology theory and African-American feminist literary criticism to probe the feminine narrative construction of Salvage the Bones' s narration,in order to update the review of the black females' image and their living condition.This paper have five parts,the first one is the introduction,which is a brief introduction to the novel's current research status,theory,method,author's lifetime and the achievement in literary creation.Next,the paper will expound from the open personal narrativevoice,based on the black feminine literary creations and western classical rewriting three aspects to prob Ward how to construct the black feminine narrative authority.Ward adopts the open personal narrative voice for giving Easch the central character of the novel the power of talking.She can speak full of her secrets' story to the audiences outdoor from the text.Easch's narrative voice has absolute advantage,even she can recover her dead mom's narrative voice,adopt the intersect narrate to weave in the memory of mom's voice and the real-life activity,which contribute to the fluency of the mom's narrate voice.The narrator resist the father's authority in the implied text,making the father's utterance irony to expose the selfish and absent in the family life deeply.The narrator fix her own image in the mirror repeatedly,presenting her real image in her eyes,rejecting the chance others speak her,at the same time,also refusing the mans' utterance discipline to the women body.In addition,this text uses the mom's narrative as mainline,narrating the mom's grandmother's story in detail,while conceals the father's voice.At the same time,the narrator cutting the narrative voice represent the government into pieces on purpose,which make the reportage several fragments.It allude the attitude of the narrator,she believe the government is just publicity stunt,taken no action in fact.By reappearing the weatherman's laughter voice and the state government official's full of metal texture voice leaking the official's dereliction of duty and the outsider's apathy.The narrator resist the official's authority external claim based on the above means and true reproductive the black common people struggle and fight for survive in the hurricane.With becoming the intertextuality between As I lay dying and the story of Media,invoking the readers memory of the western classical literary and raising the heavy sense.Easch's reading Media form one of the text's main clue,the identify and refuse to Media reflecting the transformation of Easch's mind.As I lay dying architect the whole text,which compress the fifteen narrators in the As I lay dying into one in the Salvage the bones.centrifugal narrative type into centrality narrative type to stand out Easch's narrative voice and authority.
Keywords/Search Tags:Salvage the Bones, female voice, intertextuality, fictions of authority
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