On Feminine Angle In Bai Xianyong's Fiction

Bai Xianyong, whose works represent the highest achievement of Taiwanese fiction in the 1960's and 70's, was one of the earliest Taiwanese writers introduced to the Mainland. His fiction portrays a series of classical female characters, manifesting close attention and sympathy on women and forming a unique feminine angle of view. The essay is intended to analyzing the text of Bai's fiction from the narrative point of view, discussing the significance of the gendered view to narration and portraying feminine characters and therefore disclosing the author's attitude and the connotation of the fiction.From the technical aspect, Bai's feminine angle is shown through a set of narrative strategies. The essay will analyze from narrators, dialogues and psychological description.From the story, Bai's feminine angle is exhibited through close attention and sympathy on women. A fanciful feminine world appears from the feminine angle: the miserable fate of women, the suppressed desires of women and the reversed relationship between two genders. Bai treats female as an individual, as an equal of male, intead of any appendage. He emphasizes the magnificent living environment, abandons the simple conflicts between men and women, and chooses an objective way towards them in the environment, displaying his realistic attitude in comprehensively, truly knowing and expressing women.Bai's feminine angle has taken shape for several reasons. His early growth experience and homosexual emotion are dominant among the reasons; the feminine traditional culture and western cultural angle theories also attribute to it.With special artistic charm, Bai's feminine angle discloses a vivid feminine world, topples over the traditional sexual relationship with dominant male, and presents a complex narrative style.