Research On The Image Of Gay In Contemporary Homosexual Literature Of Mainland China

With the opening up in social and cultural environment and the loose hold on literature norms,the contemporary homosexual literature gradually surfaced to the stage of history after the 1980 s.Due to physical and psychological differences between men and women,gays and lesbians will have unique life experience and emotional experience separately.Therefore,this article only focuses on the gay image to unfold the thesis.The gay character in the novel appear to be apart from the heterosexual society where sticks to traditional sexual orientation.This will easily lead to their anxiety on the cognition towards gender and sexual orientation,and confusion on same-sex relationship.Their distinguished preference shames their family and have themselves stigmatized by the society.The depression on the gay character is closely related to writers' life experience.Burdened and depressed by the reality.They,on the other hand,obtain self-healing and free creation by speak ing their minds through literature creation,participating in the fight against gender oppression,pursuing the truth and beauty of human nature.In terms of writing techniques,the writer outlines gay characters through their life experiences,emotion and the understanding of the society from personal perspective;use the carnival narrative strategy to describe the distraction and coronation experience of the characters,the carnival of the flesh and the vulgar square language and present the margalized and gloomy gay in pursuits of freedom,equality and happiness.In general,contemporary homosexual literature in mainland China has enriched the themes of contemporary literature and made progress in the construction of multivariate literature landscapes.The depressed but tough gay characters in the novel is the result of literature on "human liberation" since the "new period".They contribute to the literary image of the "marginalized people",inspire people of re-understanding and deeper concern on gays,thus improving the social cognition.