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Female Consciousness And ZhaiyongMing Poetry Creation

Posted on:2015-02-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L M ZhongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330428480597Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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In mid-1980s, there rose a hot but not very strong wave of literature ideological in Chinese poetry, which is later called as the "feminine poetry". And the rise of the literary trends is marked by the works women, written by Zhai Yongming. In the subsequent there or four years, there abundantly arose a lot of poetess of distinct "women consciousness". The poetry critic Mr. Tang Xiaodu commented the poem women in his article entitled Feminine Poetry:from Night to Day, and asserted that it was the origination of poem women that "enlightens a new sense of poetry"—women consciousness, which is later commonly used in academic. The publishing of Mr. Tang’s essay nearly rose a wind of study, which makes the scholars usually used the key word "women consciousness" when discussed the Mr. Zhai Yongming and feminine poetry. The "women consciousness" is mostly regarded as the women’s peculiar experience of existence and life in the sense of theme, or is annotated as the "gender consciousness" influenced by the western feminism. Mr. Zhai Yongming is regarded as one of the very "women consciousness" poetess in the contemporary Chinese poetry."Women consciousness", for Zhai Yongming’s research, becoming a tabbed criticism vocabulary. However, there are few researchers have systematically arrangement about his "women consciousness’s" development. Admittedly, just as Zhai Yongming said:"As half of humanity, women face a completely different world from birth". They "are always hidden inside their body of innate destruction hunch". That is to say, the qualities of consciousness that women possessed is innate. However, the nature of women’s consciousness is a kind of female qualities, which is "the process of deep understanding", and needs to be stimulated. Therefore,"women consciousness" went through a "hazy" gestation period before women, poets’"women consciousness" that reflected in their creation is that more emphasizes on capturing the delicate and subtle psychological feelings in poems’context, and focuses on forming a imagery system of effeminate and fullness of famine taste, with a innocent,beautiful and romantic "daughter" writing tone, and have created a soft but strong femininity poetry, which vaguely revealed her identity for women and their aesthetic identity. In the women period, Zhai Yongming’s "women consciousness" developed into a fierce fight against gender consciousness, she always uses binary opposition between men and women in the creation to challenge and deconstruct the cultural consciousness of women shelter prototype, to assert women themselves calling female consciousness. Then, since the beginning of the1990s until the recent creation, with forcing tour operation and White Night Bar increasingly appeared in Zhai Yongming’s life, the poets began to expand the women consciousness into increasing number of areas, starting from the fierce confrontation into accepting compassion, beginning to put more attention to the injustice in reality and cowardice inside women’s hearts, she wrote poems with constantly expanding horizons and the poetry writing efforts have been greatly enhanced, and is showing the writing trends and styles. Also, for cognition of "women consciousness", the poetess also experienced a progress from the silly to accept, from the received to publicity, from publicity to transcend. Researching Zhai Yongming’s creation of poems under the gender perspective is to tease out the awakening and maturation’s process of Zhai Yongming’s "women consciousness", is to explore the poet’s changes in cognitive processes of "women consciousness", is also to understand how these changes impact Zhai Yongming’s poetry creation.This thesis rounds the topic " women consciousness and Zhai Yongming’s poetry " and specifically discuss it from the following sections:the preface gives a brief introduction about poet’s life and the significance of his poetry creation,which is used to draw forth the research topic;In chapter I,the author makes Zhai Yongming’s poetries in the periods of exploration as the foothold to discuss the womanliness and the manifestation of conscious of gender in Zhai Yongming’s early poetry writing work.In chapter Ⅱ,it probes the relation between women consciousness and Zhai Yongming’s discourse stand in his mature period of creative work by poetry content and means of expression. Besides,this chapter shows the main methods of Zhai Yongming to highlight women consciousness in his works.And it rounds "night imagery" and "figure of mother" to concretely carding the process that Zhai Yongming rebuilds women’s subject consciousness by women’s circumstances in life. What’s more,it analyzes the significance of Zhai Yongming’s way to write poetry by exposing glorious motherhood for women themselves to reflect women’s shelter historical destiny and construct the image of women who have the body-conscious.In chapter III,when the discussion broke through the limitation of gender identity, Zhai Yongming’s women consciousness gradually fade and sublimated, and specifically determined by analysis of the change in the newly brought to the poet’s poetry writing in transition-Vision of expansion and deepening of Poetry.Finally, the conclusion section summarizes the performance women consciousness in the creation of various periods of Zhai Yongming, significance and impact;And it is looking forward to the poet’s new changes and breakthrough in his future poetry creating work.
Keywords/Search Tags:Women Consciousness, Zhai Yongming’s poetry, Motherhood theme, Night imagery, Universal Writing
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