Female Life Writing In Yan Geling's Novels

Yan geling’s novel creation takes her own life experience as the background.She wrote a colorful "epic of a woman ".In Yan geling’s novels,men are loved,pitied and redeemed after the historical background of women’s life breakthrough,which is different from the heroic epics in which men are the main characters.Behind this writing of women’s life history and emotional history is Yan geling’s rethinking of women and politics,women and culture,women and the right of men.On the basis of the traditional culture of her own nation,she steeped in Western culture of democracy and freedom,connects the grand narrative of history and the legendary stories of individual women.And she expresses the changes of the times with the women "epic".Yan geling’s novels are the true records of his life breakthrough.From military dancer to writer and screenwriter,from mainland literary youth to overseas migrant writers,she experienced the ups and downs of half a century and life in Baise.As an immigrant writer,in Yan Geling’s works,we can easily see her attachment to her native land,her anxiety and confusion in finding a sense of belonging in two cultures.We can get the woman’s humanity,including her tolerance and forgiveness,and her feminine feelings are the shining parts of her looking back to her homeland.Behind her complicated emotional world,we can see her re-writing of the historical changes and her deep concern for the individual struggle,which is about the value of individual life and human nature of the nation’s call and eager hope.Yan geling’s novels have created a series of women images with rich connotations.In a sense,these women’s life stories are the vivid presentation of the author’s colorful life history,from the female images in her works,we can see a woman’s special care for an era,a nation and a culture.These female images are the presentation and reflection of her colorful life experience,and constitute her own life "epic".In these images,we can see the author’s own life history and emotional history,which contains the "epic" connotation about the nation,the country and the Times.Reading Yan geling’s words,we can feel a kind of bleak in the clear and bright,this is the author of a good life yearning,is a harmonious up the internal quality.As a personal "epic",Yan Geling’s writing is no longer confined to the Grand Narrative Paradigm of the state,the nation and the revolution.From the ontological meaning of individual life,it shows a contemporary woman’s concern and thinking about the nation,culture and women themselves.