The Spiritual Course Of The Female’s Subsistence

Taking the new period female clan novel as the research object, this thesis aimsto grasp the main features of the novel and analyze its generation, manifestation,significance, limitation etc. As an important literature phenomenon, the female clannovel narrates the life experience and thought process of women of severalgenerations in a certain clan, whose authors are always the female writers. Accordingto this thesis, female clan novel is a history of maternal family, female life and femalespirits. Meanwhile, it is also a special record of the society, culture and spirits fromthe sexual perspective. The female writers of this kind of novels manifest theirparticular sexual experience, perceptive feeling and agile thought; one of the novels’main features is the salience of female subsistence. According to this situation, thisthesis will look into the novel in three aspects: above all, from the maternal history toinspect the construction, destiny and the images of the female; then, review the femalesubsistence and the image of a traditional mother to analyze the traditional love, thesuffering and self-rescue of women; lastly, from the sexual poetic narrativeperspective to explain the different narrative and aesthetic styles in poetic, mythicaland fabular narration. The new period female clan novel describes the maternalhistory which has been obscured for a long time, manifests the subsistence of women,and constructs women’s own epic. However, on the one hand, it shows thedetermination to revolt the male authority; on the other hand, it reveals some obliquityand slavery to the male authority. Without question, the sexual harmony leads to thesocial harmony. With the development of the society, the female and their literature,including the female clan novels, still need our further attention and exploration.