The Study Of Male Images In Yan Geling’s Novels

Yan Geling is a contemporary Chinese American writers who has a unique style. She has the tradition of Oriental women and the opening of the western society. The different cultural characteristics of the East and West bring her different from the ordinary people’s life experience,which is reflected in her literary works. Therefore, her novels reveal the thinking of life and the reflection of the society. In such a cultural background, Yan Geling has formed a harmonious gender concept, which is different from mainland writers, and also from the Chinese American writers.Since twentieth Century, with the rise of feminism, women’s consciousness has been further publicized, while the patriarchal society has been greatly impacted. And adding to tendency of women’s own creation, Yan Geling successfully portrays a group of female images. Therefore,many papers focus on the study of the female images, ignoring the male. In fact, in Yan’s novels,there are a large number of different characters of male images. These male images in the novel plays an important role. These groups bring readers many moving stories.Yan Geling’s literary creation can be divided into three stages. The male image of each stage has its own characteristics. From the girl’s utopian fantasy, middle-aged foreign immigrants experience, and to the subsequent memory of China, male images shapped in Yan Geling’s works is richer and richer. Form the male images, we can find Yan’s social gender view. Obviously, Yan is not like the feminist advocates,who focus on the opposite relationship between male and female.Compared with other writers, the attitude to take care of the men of Yan Geling is more objective.One side, she has a certain degree of male deconstruction. On the other hand, she has a humanistic concern beyond gender. This is distinctive feature of Yan’s.In order to evaluate the value and significance of portraits of man in view of literary history,on the one hand, this paper, through the Chinese lierature since the 1980’s, discusses the basic situation of male image in literary works, such as Jia Pingwa, Mo Yan, Zhang Jie, Yu Hua and Zhang Chengzhi. On the other hand, this paper analyzes the shape of male image of Chinese American Writers based on the present situation of the history of Chinese American lierature.Finally, this paper puts forward that Yan Geling ’ s lierary creation bings fresh blood to the contemporary lierature. In narrative theory, the language, narrative structure and narrative perspective in Yan Geling’s works provides a new creative mode for other writers. From thecreation’s connotation, literay creation in the context of cross-culture, Yan Geling explores the relationship between the local experience and foreign culture, which provides a new dimension for writer’s creation. In a word, let readers know about Yan Geling and let writers learn from Yan Geling, Which is the meaning of this paper.