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Rainbow Beyond Wind And Rain & Loudly Speaking Roses

Posted on:2011-07-25Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F T TianFull Text:PDF
GTID:2195330341451239Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Known as a " master outside the system "and a "liberalism thinkers", Xiaobo Wang, in his short lifetime, wrote a series of valuable novels through which he expressed the negative liberal ideal to which Xiaobo wang had been seeking. As a indispensable part of all the characters, female figures are irreplaceable in the course of describing this negative liberal ideal.The foundation of the negative liberalism is that everybody is equal. Naturally,the equality between male and female is a indispensable part of the equality among everyone.Xiaobo wang's writing had been always keeping distance from the mainstream discourse circle, and the female figures in his novels are different from ones in traditional male writers'texts. They are different from not only the traditional angel figures, but also the siren figures. Because the female figures in traditional male writers'texts are shaped through men's will, but Xiaobo Wang's creating female figures were on the base of the equality among everyone. According to how much freedom they gained, this article will divide all the female figures in Xiaobo Wang's novels into three types: the female disadvantaged groups, the women who stood for coercive power and the liberal women, and then comparative analyze them from three different aspects: coercive power——fighting against coercive power, sexuality, and sado-masochism \ masochism. After this comparative analysis we can conclude that: Xiaobo Wang had not only given the first type women pity, but also told them how to change the bad situation: to fight against coercive power; to the second ones, Xiaobo Wang had hold a critical attitude and satirized them, because they based their freedom on the foundation that others couldn't be free;and the third ones actively practiced Xiaobo Wang's negative liberalism, whose speaking and behavior were marking the victory of liberalist feminism in the texts and whose tolerant social attitude were just showing the spirit of negative literalism, which Xiaobo Wang had claimed strongly.
Keywords/Search Tags:Xiaobo Wang, female figure, freedom and liberalism, coercive power
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