Construction Of Female Authority

Dear Life,the latest publication of Alice Munro who is acclaimed as the Canadian master of short story,is imbued with Munro‘s sincere concern and expectation for women in her later writing career.In Dear Life,Munro subverts the tradition that women are "the Object" in narration to endow women with the right of "seeing" and "speaking",which highlights the consciousness of female subjectivity and female position.The thesis,based on feminist narratology,analyzes the female narration in Dear Life to detect feminist narrative characteristics from narrative point of view,narrative voice and character‘s discourse and to explore how Alice Munro chooses different narrative techniques to accomplish the construction of female authority.Through the detailed analysis,the major findings are as follows: in the choice of narrative point of view,Munro chooses zero point of view,first person retrospective point of view and fixed internal point of view to embody female consciousness.In the choice of narrative voice,Munro applies authorial voice,personal voice and communal voice to construct female discourse.In the choice of character‘s discourse,Munro adopts free direct discourse and free indirect discourse to construct female authority ultimately.Munro‘s choice and application of various narrative points of view,narrative voices and character‘s discourse forms represent her unique feminist narrative strategy in Dear Life,which assists Munro to accomplish the construction of female authority.This study on Dear Life from the perspective of feminist narratology can broaden the research perspective of Dear Life to some extent,which is helpful for readers to have a deep understanding of the feminist narrative features in Munro‘s works.