Ecological Literary Criticism To Xu Xiaobin

XU Xiao-bin's novels have a unique personal touch. In the choice of the themes, She is not only concerned about the survival experience and true dilemma of female subject, but also stands in the perspective of humanity and natural ecosystem to reflect various crises of human. In the depth of thought, her novels are full of compassionate human care and critical reflection of modern civilization. Simultaneously, in the writing style, her works abound in poetic hue and are filled with a mysterious atmosphere. Her writing is perfect integration of ecological literature and feminist literature, so her works are tantamount to shining pearls in contemporary literature.With the increasingly accelerated pace of modernization, it has become an indisputable fact that today's environment has been seriously undermined. As a excellent contemporary writer, XU Xiao-bin consciously responses to the themes of our times by deeply reflecting and criticizing modern civilization, by highlighting the ecological awareness, by calling for the establishment of ecologically-centered values and a harmonious relationship between human race and nature, and by initiating to set up a ecologically-balanced world. From the viewpoint of ecological feminism, XU Xiao-bin also spares no effort to shape female characters as a natural son in her literary creation and to reveal the essential relationship between women and nature. At the same time, she also vehemently criticizes Male Chauvinism which has been bringing misfortune to female and nature. By deeply integrating the heroines and nature and enhancing the strength of female subject, XU Xiao-bin wages war to the male-centered values and competes with male by means of her writing. In doing so, she tries to construct some new values which are based on harmonious coexistence between male, female and the natural cycles, and thus to break the world outlook and life outlook of binary opposition between men and women in the realm of her novels. XU Xiao-bin knows that almost all of the human survival plight and ecological crises are caused by the uncontrolled expansion of personal desires, therefore, after she made severe criticism to urban civilization, she advocates escaping from modern cities and returning to the embrace of Mother Nature to get rid of human plight and crises. After a comprehensive study on XU Xiao-bin's novels, I think XU Xiao-bin's ecological writing has a very important practical significance for the development of contemporary Chinese literature.