Cross-Culture And Female Writing

As a new immigrant from Wenzhou, the female writer Zhangling has a broad cross-culturalperspective, focuses on complementary blend of Chinese and Western cultures, explores theimmigrants’ spiritual home between home and foreign, pays attention to women’s living conditionsand psychological feelings and actively explores and develops female narrative.With close reading of the texts and literatures as the base, I made a study on Zhangling’snovel from three levels which are detailed as follows:1.the interaction between regional culture andthe writers；2.the cross-cultural writing of the new immigrants writer；3.modern female writing.The first chapter is titled as “Zhangling——A New Immigrant Writer from Wenzhou”. Themain research clue of this chapter is about the relationship among the writer’s living place，surrounding people and culture environment。Firstly, the impact from the Wenzhou’s regionalculture on zhangling is investigated. Apart from advocating people-orientation and actualefficiency, Wenzhou’s regional culture also has a feature of openness and diversity. All theregional culture features made her have a tolerant mind to foreign cultures and stimulated herdissatisfaction of the status of life, which consequently made her consciously omit the cultureconflicts and pay more attention to the blend of Chinese and foreign culture and the value of life inher writing. At the same time, the natural scenery and historical background of Wenzhou werevividly shown in the novel text, which made the text have a strong taste of local complex andregional culture. As all, Wenzhou is the starting point of zhangling’s life and writing as well as herspiritual and cultural homeland.The second chapter is titled as “Zhangling’s cross-culture writing”. With the theoreticalknowledge of cross-culture about diaspora, subject/object and culture identity identification, theDiaspora-psychology and cross-culture perspective behind zhangling’s cross-border writing areexplored. Then, the subject/object in the text is analyzed. At last, the process of building her cultureidentity identification is illustrated. The potential spiritual purpose in zhangling’s novel is Cross-culture blending, which results in a space, in which the collision, dialogue, communication andblend of home and foreign cultures could be seen. The space has a mental implication featuringperspective shift and broad aesthetic horizon, which can reflected by the self image and other image rendered in her writing. The final aim of rendering the Subject/Object is to establish thewriter’s self culture identification. I think, the process of seeking the answer to the identityidentification question of who I am reflects that zhangling is one of the fifth generation of Chineseimmigrants in Canada and a thinker who write history, humanity and soul in her mother language.The third chapter is titled as “Zhangling’s female writing”. The discussion is divided intothree parts to cover this topic. Firstly, I set out from the women’s edging or weak status to bring outtheir surviving difficulty. Secondly, sheltering or awakening of women consciousness is elaboratedfrom the perspective of gender relations. Three marriage patterns are stated in Zhang’s novel:gender break, gender compromise and gender reconciliation. Love is deconstructed through therendering of gender game and balance, which consequently depicts the sheltering or awakening ofwomen consciousness. Thirdly, the paper investigates the Utopian female narrative by placing thewomen in the family relationship. A fictional female nation, in which women occupy the dominantposition and have the right to speak while men are out of authority, is created in Zhang’s novel。As all, female writing is an unique feature of Zhang’s novel, which can be concluded from thefeminine discourse, female image and the writer’s consciousness in her writing.