The Study Of Yan Geling

Yan Geling, born in Shanghai in1957, firstly received praise in literary field in 1986 when publishing her military saga novel"Green Blood". Though the trial work was submerged in the waves of time, it had sufficiently expressed the"life outlook of thinking and striving". After that, the saga novel"Whisper Of A Woman Soldier"came into being. These two works respectively won"prize of excellent military saga novel 1977--1986"and"prize of liberation army newspapers and military books". If it is the first time she observed the times and edge people of society, concerned about humanity and probed into narrative skills in this novel, when she finished"Mead Of The Female"in1988, these factors had developed to be mature, and had formed a feature of her future works. In 1990, Yang Geling entered Columbia Arts College of Chicago in America to study as writing master. The foreign life experience made her"feels the distance in geography, time and culture and language, and some past memories also became fresh and fantastic, which aroused deep thinking."In the three or four years of writing practice, she broke the old rules, fought the reality and quietly observed small potatoes'struggling and pain in city life, and especially put more words to migration life under foreign cultural and language environment, and made out that the migration rank in edge of society experienced embarrassment, loneliness, and depression in spallation process during forming their social position. From the first saga novel"Green Blood"to"Aunt Duohe"and"Wisperer", more than thirty years of writing, ten millions of words, her works'themes span military, migration and new historicalism's transit and variation. It seems that Yan Geling never led a trend, sometimes even of old fashion, so reading her novel may be a test to our reading taste.The article sets Yan Geling's work as research object and expounds her works'theme, writing style and meaning of the works. The article consists of five parts: the first part briefly introduces Yan Geling's lifetime and works, and meanwhile generalizes research of Yan Geling in recent ten years, so as to clarify the emphasis and blank spot. Through sorting, we found among the researches of Yan Geling's novels, most are"majority's blatancy"other than""—though there's no shortage of research results, most just follow others, and a number of articles inclined to dissertate from some certain angles such as female figure, thus the discussion topic scope is very narrow. In fact, there are much treasure to be excavated in Yan Geling's novel research. For example, some of her novels including"Maid Little Yu""Heaven Bath"and"One Woman's Epic"had been adapted to be movies or TV plays, and the author also attached herself to the adaptation. Then whether there will be research gap during the transit between the two art forms, and if the gap contains author's invention core and essence? All these are worthy of research and exploring, which is also the topic of the fifth part of the article. The second part sets her new migration novel as object and expounds"loss of words","mistranslating"and student abroad's maladjustment while facing strange living environment in the new migration novel by intercultural communication theory. Meanwhile, the article read"Fusang"carefully and analyze how it broke the mould of pure romantic narration of actresses and prostitutes, and put the prostitute Fusang in the conflict of east and west cultures, thus completing expression of female experience by Fusang's controlling fate of herself. In the third chapter, through the interpretation of abnormal psychology, the interpretations of works of Yan Geling's special emotional mode, including homosexuality, as well as Oedipus's love and cross-age love.In the fourth Chapter ,it analyzes the women's image through using of theory of feminism from the Chinese prostitutes who came united states in twentieth century to the female students at the end of the twentieth century; from the Chinese prostitutes to female students; from the Cultural Revolution, the tragedy of women to the imagination and recall of native country today ;a woman's heroic death and dedication, perseverance and pain, struggle and magnanimity are always constant scenes described by Yan Geling. These images show female's unique gender identity fully, different realistic desires and impulses , and the soul of the tremor Moving. From the images of these women, we can deeply feel unique way of female's memory as well as the depth of exploring towards Human Nature. In the mean while ,it starts from feminist consciousness , considering women's situation in society, and such consideration is not only for the times but also for the plight of their own. This is why her later works are so clear. According to the author ,human compassion is originated from feminine perspective and shows the heart and the fate of the characters .Whether it is the explanation for the East-West cultural gap or for the edge of the figure, the concern for the living world and historical reflection of the Cultural Revolution. She always reveals the humanity in the brilliance, ugliness. In the process of showing the characters, the article Placed deep compassion to the little people , touching and exploring the distorting and conversion of human nature between Eastern and Western countries under the wild condition.The forth chapter is about the novel's artistic characteristics. Her works are interpreted from the desolate style, narrative perspective, imagist settings, and the application of psychoanalytic theory. Chapter V is based on the film adaptation, her literary works, and Movie works. Finally, it describes change s in the process of adaptation and the conveyed message.To sum up,Yan's novels become more mature from many years'creation .Her novels have a huge implication of the theme and unique characteristics and aesthetic features of language, and many critics and readers appreciate, recognize and accept her works . The success of her novels is due to the combination of national consciousness and her gender , personal life experiences, conveying patriotism of a female writer in a particular social and historical situations . Her description is from the bottom of the poor, intersexual family to the extension of the nation and society, revealing the viewpoint of women in care, through the sympathy to the weak, propagating a deep humanism.