The Body And Power In Yan Geling's Novels

Yan Geling is one of the most popular Chinese writers in the literary world.She's valuable life experiences provide Yan Geling with a continuous stream of creative inspiration.Her works cover a wide range of topics,including military novels,immigrant novels,cultural revolution historical novels,war novels,etc.Behind all these themes,Yan Geling's works have a persistent factor that is the description of the body.Because no matter where the story takes place,how time flows,the body of the character as the center of the story has always been the center of narrative.Whether it is the body in violence or the body in the relationship between men and women,the detailed description of the body's subtle reflections or the description of the body movements with meaning is easy to find in the works of Yan Geling.In the stories of the body-centered field,the body becomes an important link to show the connection between the heart and the surrounding environment.Different from some writers' detailed description of violence,and different from some writers' obsession with sensuality,Yan Geling's body description is exquisite and not erotic,just right and far-reaching with unique writing charm.The characters in Yan Geling's works are always at the edge of the social and political environment.The author is more focused on the hidden emotions and stories of the characters under the great torrent of society.Through the delicate body descriptions of Yan Geling,we can see that the body description towards a person plays an extremely important role in shaping the characters of the novel.The body has become a stage for the expression of humanity's good and evil conflicts,and also an important field for the characters to show their life experience.But the body at the edge of society is also subject to omnipresent power,and the interweaving of body and power changes the image of the character.This thesis takes Yan Geling's novels that show the social background of fierce conflict as the main research object.By exploring the physical manifestations of the characters under these era torrents,the multiple entanglements between body and human violence,identity,space and other factors under the power of macro-political context are presented.On the basis of textual reading,using Foucault's power theory,through the hidden body movements of the characters,the thesis' s aim is to reveal the subtle influence of the external environment on people,and reveal the unknown fluctuations of humanity under the weight of power.The full text consists of three parts: introduction,body and conclusion.The introduction mainly discusses the main process and development of body research,the research summary of Yan Geling's works,and the theoretical basis used in the writing of the thesis.Chapter 2 focuses on two ways in which power acts on the body—visible violence and invisible violence,exploring the body's performance under violence and discipline.Chapter 3,Identity in the Perspective of Power,focuses on individuals under the influence of power and explores the power-to-individual function of identity.Chapter 4 explores the operation of power among individuals.Individuals and individuals form an invisible space under the control of power.Chapter 5 focuses on the physical image of the specific view of power in the context of power,and explores the physical characteristics that are outside the power.The conclusion part looks at the whole text and combs the relationship between body and power in Yan Geling's works.At the same time,as a reader,I wish that Yan Geling can write more and more fascinating and profound literary works and create a richer image.