On The Female Writing Of Chen Lijiao’s Novels

Chen Lijiao’s novels focus on the shaping of female characters.The image of the earth mother rooted in the black soil,the heroine dyed with blood in the wasteland and the desire of women exposed in the cold land are included in her female characters.The traits of these characters have a certain origin with the vast natural environment of Northeast China,the modern history of bloody violence and the geographical location far away from the center of Confucian culture,showing the spiritual quality consistent with the regional culture of Northeast China including inclusive and selfless dedication,tenacious and indomitable revolutionary spirit and free spirit of indulgence.Chen Lijiao’s female novels have rich female consciousness: warm and noble life consciousness,equality and harmony gender consciousness and self-respect and independently subject consciousness.Life consciousness is mainly reflected in the female’s tender guard of life instinct and the detached and open-minded attitude towards death.The gender consciousness of equality shows the disintegration of the myth of male power by negating,expelling and weakening men,and builds a harmonious spiritual world of both sexes by establishing Utopian marriage relationship and transcending secular spiritual confidant relationship.The subject consciousness of self-respect and independence is reflected in women’s efforts to get rid of the subordinate status,realize individual identity and escape from suffering,and complete personality self-redemption.These feminine consciousnesses fuse and infuse with each other,forming a deep vein of consciousness in Chen Lijiao’s fictional writing about women.Chen Lijiao has constructed rich female narrative strategies in her novels.In the creation of imagery,the dotted imagery renders the atmosphere and suggests women’s feelings;the linear imagery connects the plot and metaphors women’s fate;the overall imagery corresponds to the theme and renders women’s life,and the multiple imagery conveys a deep discourse implication.In terms of the narrative mode,her novels choose female-centered mosaic narrative structure,which not only increases the suspense of the plot,but also emphasizes the life experience and thought of women.Using the narrative perspective of internal and external transformation is helpful to timely insight into the inner world of women,so that their emotions reveal naturally and truly;the author’s narrative voice is conducive to establishing female authority and expressing female discourse.In addition,in terms of language narration,the novel presents a mild and simple artistic characteristics.Both the graceful and delicate language style of female writers and the plain and simple language charm imbued by the northeast culture are included.