| For half a century,Xiao Hong' s fate of literature witnessed great vicissitudes in the earth-shaking change.Xiao Hong' life was short,and her writing of not more than ten years left nothing but over one million Chinese characters. She belonged to the contemporary category of idiosyncratic writers with a remarkable role to play who yet could not be rated as great ones. Her profound ideology could pierce the length of centuries and connect the futurity of mankind. Her writing is of idiosyncrasy with a unique artistic style. In the perspective of current tide of literature,this article makes an attempt to inspect Xiao Hong' s idiosyncratic writing,explore her spirit pursuit for cultural philosophy and make a deep research on Xiao Hong' s remarkable contribution to the modern history of female writers and modern history of stylistics.Chapter One:Pursuit for Home. In this Chapter,Xiao Hong' s birthplace of literature - the background of times and her early life was inspected for the mastery of Xiao Hong' s linguistic context of her literature.Xiao Hong' s life spanned a comparatively long period of woe and weal of Chinese nation and her weak life witnessed the hardships and frustrations of leaving home,looking for home and missing home. In the woe and weal of Chinese nation,she experienced revolt,awaking and resistance. Her childhood of disturbance brought about her willful,stubborn and revolting disposition and her life of twists tempered her inflexible,subtle and independent personality. From her fleeing from home to the homeless at last,a deep atmosphere of family consciousness lingered over Xiao Hong' s life,which influenced her whole writing. And this is the key to the interpretation of Xiao Hong.Chapter Two:Home of Spirit. In the drastic turbulence of Chinese modern history,the trace of Xiao Hong' s writing can be used as the basis of understanding her outlook of literature and her ideology.With the guide of Lu Xun whose category of reforming national soul deeply influenced her,Xiao Hong marched onto the literary arena and became one of the members of Lu Xun' s literary circle. Xiao Hong' s outlook of novel was established on the inheritance of Lu Xun' s novel tradition,and her understanding of Lu Xun' s novels and his writing ideology was unique and penetrating,in a female innovative perspective. Xiao Hong' s development of literature was inseparable from her experience of life and personality. Though the outside world guided her diligent pen on more than one occasion,it failed to become her ultimate concern. In the light of her artistic personality,she was much more concerned with her own inner world. Facing the Age and Self,Xiao Hong took orders from the call of heart and pursued her own home of soul and concern. She devoted much more to the expression of her subjective world than to the description of objective revolutionary struggle. And this was just the reason why she kept her selfness quite well in that special age when people were apt to conform to the general trend and lose idiosyncrasy.Chapter Three:Love for Home. The home complex was a colorful and sophisticated knot in her emotion of chains. She fused her delicate feeling into her novels of home,expressing her recollection of childhood in her drifting life and her comprehension of life.Xiao Hong' s world of childhood represented the primary experience with a universal anthropological significance,forming a miniature of human existence of life and human collective memory. She pondered over the value and meaning of existence through the laborers clinging to their home. In her novels of home,individual existence through land and home refracted the human existence circumstance,exposed the truth of life,guided people to pursue the life value in a real sense and upraised the modem cultural consciousness to a historical level along the philosophical latitude of life and death.Chapter Four:Female Sky. This chapter deals with the interpretation of Xiao Hong' s female consciousness and the consideration of female identification in... |
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