From Fetishism To Wandering: Female Growth Experience In Lin Bai’s Novels

Since her debut novel A woman’s war in 1994,Lin Bai has always changed her writing style and techniques,but the only constant is her insight into human nature and her involvement in reality.As a female writer,her works have already exceeded the category of gender,and have the value of transcending gender classics.In the1990 s,for the first time in serious literature,Lin Bai looked directly at the female body and female desire.The scene in A woman’s war in which Duomi looks at herself and touches herself in the mirror is destined to become a classic in modern and contemporary literature.Lin Bai’s novels show the complex of "fetishism",which is reflected in two aspects.On the one hand,Lin Bai pays great attention to the description of "object".She captures the feelings of objects to people with her exquisite female psychology.The spatial arrangement of objects and the emotional and psychological application of objects in the novel are quite characteristic.On the other hand,"object fetishism" for Lin Bai is not only the attachment to things,but also the maximum extent of the things involved in the creation of characters,things get rid of the inanimate state,has the function of self-expression.The object in her novel exactly shaped the protagonist’s psychological world,and women’s attachment to the object has a deep cultural and psychological representation."Curtains","cicadas" and "skirts" have an indescribable flavor in her works and become the rich texture of the novel.Secondly,"vagrancy" is a unique female experience in Lin Bai’s novels.From A woman’s war to women’s chat and Go north,go south,her characters are in a state of displacement.Wandering in Lin Bai’s works has a double meaning.Vagrancy is not only the banishment of the body,but also the remodeling of the mind."on the road" has become the normal state of life.The mental loneliness,the indescribable loneliness,the sense of panic caused by looking around all reveal the wandering state of the subject.The main body of Lin Bai’s novels is always in the state of spiritual fission,and the mood of confusion,trance,reality and nothingness is always with us.Growth is a long journey of wandering,is constantly farewell and understanding.In Lin Bai’s novels,the relationship between fetish complex and wandering consciousness is that the two things seem different,but they are actually the same.Inessence,the relationship between the two has a strong universality.By writing about women’s growing experience,Lin Bai made this universal living state become classic.In Lin Bai’s fictional world,female fetishism is the catalyst of vagrancy,both of which point to the spiritual deficiency in individual growth.Lin Bai said that "writing is a kind of flying".In the process of flying,she not only sublimated herself,but also broadened her horizon.By the time of the publication of Go north,go south in 2012,the depth and breadth of reflection on self,existence and life reflected in the work had reached a new height.Lin Bai said more than once that she wanted to break through the sense of alienation from reality and hope to find a real connection with the world.This life concept and writing ideal not only influenced her creation,but also made efforts to practice her care for the reality of the world and the fate of women in real life.