A Study On Xu Kun’s Novels

In the1990s, Xu Kun started to enter the literary world with her bitter, ironicand ridiculous language, which attracted the attentions on critics. Until now, herliterary career could be divided into two periods, early and later periods respectively.In her early period, she depicted scenes of farce and theater of the absurd to tease andscorn contemporary male intellectual elite, mainly though female playing male partsor nonsexual imitation of male narratives as well as intellectual language, subvertingthe image of male intellectual elites, which deconstructed the traditional culturecentering on patriarchal culture. Beside deconstructing patriarchal culture, she alsosaw the pain and frustration of male intellectuals with the influence ofcommercialized society, which caused her to pay more attentions on problems ofthose male intellectuals and their spiritual world. In the later period, Xu Kun’s novelsgradually tended to be peaceful, expressed that she cared about female’s livingcondition and their spiritual world mainly via the descriptions of their real lifes andpsychology, which exposed the persecution of modern female’s minds by socialenvironment with the influence of the male and patriarchal culture, showing a selfconsciousness of modern females. That is to say, deconstructing patriarchal culturerun throughout the creation of Xu Kun in her both two periods. However, fordeconstructing male culture of the feminist consciousness novels in later period, XuKun did not deny the male completely. She saw the male’s hardship in the real society,giving them a glimpse of tenderness. Moreover, she still found the rationality ofselection in the male’s real society, establishing a objective creative view of feministliterary that the male and the female are coexisting harmoniously.