On The Body Narration In Zhang Xianliang’s Novels

Zhang Xianliang is one of the more active writers in the 1980 s and occupies an important position in the contemporary literary world.His novel creation has been deeply concerned by the literary circle because of his courage to break through the restricted area of literature.In his novels since the new era,the body has been a core element throughout his creation,but also an important factor to promote the development of the novel plot.As the carrier of literary narration,the body is an organism closely combined with the body and soul,which has rich social,historical and cultural values.Zhang xianliang’s novels show a high degree of concern for the body.Hunger,lust,trauma,death,suffering and fate all directly affect the body,starting with the body and ending with the body.Based on his real experience,he describes the physical attributes of the body and the suffering of the spirit in a large amount with the technique of plain description,and expresses the survival dilemma of the individual in the historical context with the help of the figure’s body form.This paper aims to explore the conflict and confrontation between the body and political power of the characters in the novel text,and reveal the spiritual connotation of the body narration.The main part of the thesis is divided into four chapters.The first part of the introduction mainly explains the reasons for choosing zhang xianliang’s novels,sorts out the research status and research ideas of zhang xianliang’s novels,and defines the concept of body research and body narrative.The second chapter classifies the body shape of the characters in the miserable years according to Zhang Xianliang’s novel texts,The three main body forms are the hungry body,the lustful body and the traumatic body,The personal and social problems faced by the characters in the absurd times are shown through the body.The third chapter,based on the analysis of body shape in the second chapter,will explore the conflict and confrontation between body and political power.Under the gender consciousness,female body is the other who is seen and narrated,while male body is the main body.In fact,the relationship between the sexes is a kind of power relationship,a relationship between control and being controlled.;In the society dominated by class theory,identity differences affect individual’s position in society,class identityrepresents one’s status in the society.If one loses the identity of class identity,the individual will lose the sense of belonging,;In the absurd era,the mainstream ideology of the country disciplined the bodies of intellectuals,making them lose their independent consciousness and become vassals of political power.The fourth chapter explores the spiritual connotation of body narrative in Zhang Xianliang’s novels,His novels combine body with soul closely and reveal the spiritual meaning behind them by showing the body.The characters face different existential dilemmas under different circumstances.Therefore,they need spiritual salvation in the dilemma,and discover the inherent beauty of individual life existence in the process of salvation.