Snow Banana

For half a century, Xiao Hong's fate of literature witnessed great vicissitudes in theearth-shaking change.Xiao Hong'life was short ,and her writing of not more than ten years left nothingbut over one million Chinese characters. She belonged to the contemporary categoryof idiosyncratic writers with a remarkable role to play who yet could not be rated asgreat ones. Her profound ideology could pierce the length of centuries and connect thefuturity of mankind. Her writing is of idiosyncrasy with a unique artistic style. In theperspective of current tide of literature, this article makes an attempt to inspect XiaoHong's idiosyncratic writing, explore her spirit pursuit for cultural philosophy andmake a deep research on Xiao Hong's remarkable contribution to the modern historyof female writers and modern history of stylistics.Chapter One : Pursuit for Home. In this Chapter, Xiao Hong's birthplace ofliterature ----the background of times and her early life was inspected for the masteryof Xiao Hong's linguistic context of her literature.Xiao Hong's life spanned a comparatively long period of woe and weal of Chinesenation 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, sheexperienced revolt, awaking and resistance. Her childhood of disturbance broughtabout her willful, stubborn and revolting disposition and her life of twists temperedher inflexible ,subtle and independent personality. From her fleeing from home to thehomeless at last, a deep atmosphere of family consciousness lingered over XiaoHong's life, which influenced her whole writing. And this is the key to theinterpretation 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 heroutlook of literature and her ideology.With the guide of Lu Xun whose category of reforming national soul deeplyinfluenced her , Xiao Hong marched onto the literary arena and became one of themembers of Lu Xun's literary circle. Xiao Hong's outlook of novel was establishedon the inheritance of Lu Xun's novel tradition, and her understanding of Lu Xun'snovels and his writing ideology was unique and penetrating ,in a female innovativeperspective. Xiao Hong's development of literature was inseparable from herexperience of life and personality. Though the outside world guided her diligent penon more than one occasion, it failed to become her ultimate concern. In the light ofher 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 pursuedher own home of soul and concern. She devoted much more to the expression of hersubjective world than to the description of objective revolutionary struggle. And thiswas just the reason why she kept her selfness quite well in that special age whenpeople were apt to conform to the general trend and lose idiosyncrasy.Chapter Three: Love for Home. The home complex was a colorful andsophisticated knot in her emotion of chains. She fused her delicate feeling into hernovels of home, expressing her recollection of childhood in her drifting life and hercomprehension of life. Xiao Hong's world of childhood represented the primary experience with auniversal anthropological significance, forming a miniature of human existence of lifeand human collective memory. She pondered over the value and meaning of existencethrough the laborers clinging to their home. In her novels of home , individualexistence 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 andupraised the modern cultural consciousness to a historical level along thephilosophical latitude of life and death. Chapter Four: Female Sky. This chapter deals with the interpretation of XiaoHong's female consciousness and the consideration of female identification in thehistory of literature. Xiao Hong flew her own colors in expressing the female fate and life, describingthe misfortunes from their female sex and showing great concern over women in theirsignificance and value of life. Her pen-stroke touched the deep cultural psychologicalstructure of Chinese nation as well as the realistic soil upon which Chinese nation gotthe nourishment, and in her writing the expression of female fate was penetrated withLu Xun's cultural idea of reforming the national character and the spirit slavery offeudalism over women was exposed in depth through national culture. All this madeher writing beyond the novels of the same type. Between her individual fate and thatof literature, Xiao Hong was a sharp contrast to Ding Ling who always led the times.As far as the female perspective and standpoint as well as sentiment were concerned ,Xiao Hong and Zhang Ailing showed no difference. Her maturity of feminism wasbrought into prominence through the comparison with Smedley, an American authorand Woolf, a Britain author. Chapter Five: The Road of Heart for National Introspection against HumanIgnorance. This chapter deals with the relationship between Xiao Hong and thenational soul through her novels such as Life and Death and Hulan River, and inspectsher literary features in the light of the traditional framework of politics as the core andreveals the other subtlety overwhelmed by politics. From Life and Death to Hulan River ,Xiao Hong found out the cause of thatdiseased society, showing her sensitive creativity of a young writer. In her late novels,especially in the novels under the deep influence of Lu Xun such as Hulan River , hergenius of painstaking pursuit for the national disease can be easily traced back. Chapter Six: Her Own Garden. Xiao Hong was the literary goddess conceived bythe black soil and Hulan River. The vastness of Northeast Chinese soil opened up herwide vision and broad mind: tempering her independent and free idiosyncrasy ofcreativity. Xiao Hong was one of the writers who excelled in establishing their ownartistic styles in the modern history of literature of our country. She possessed aremarkable artistic perception and comprehension ,and was bold in challenging to thetraditional novels and starting a new vogue to express her own viewpoints. Her...