Female Images In The Transnational Period

Sister Carrie is the masterpiece standing on the gateway to American realisticand naturalist novel. It had been banned for 12 years after its first publication due toits naturalism description and anti-main-stream thought. The Defunct Capital is oneof important works in contemporary Chinese literature. It is also banned bycensorship because of its explicit sexual description and anti-main-stream ideologyand permitted to reprint after 12 years. This thesis based on comprehensiveresearch on the previous study, presents a new perspective to analyzes the two workswhich have same fates. First of all, this thesis applies Lacan's theory to compareCarrie in Sister Carrie with Liu Yue in The Defunct Capital, reaching the conclusionthat two heroines have similar psychology in the process of their self- cognition. Inaddition, this thesis analyzes other female images in two novels such as Minnie inSister Carrie, and Tang Waner, A Can, and Niu Yueqing surrounding the hero, Mr.Butterfly in The Defunct Capital, in order to find the unique features that the twoheroines possess. Finally, this thesis puts the two heroines into the wide historicalsetting to explore the effect imposed on the characters by the era of transnationalperiod in two countries, features of the feminism in two countries, and reasons shapedthe unique points of the two heroines behind their similar life experience andpsychological self- cognition process although they live in the times with 100 yearsgap and in the countries with distinctive cultures.