Childhood Complex In Literary Creation Of Xiao Hong

Xiao Hong’s literary creation has a distinct childhood complex,such as,concerns and writing about childhood life,which examines and reflects social life with the child perspective.Xiao Hong’s childhood complex mainly stems from the author’s traumatic experience at the childhood.This childhood complex has not only has a profound influence on the life course,outlook on life and values,but also become the main source of Xiao Hong’s creative theme and the powerful power of artistic imagination.The purpose of this thesis is systematically to analyze the childhood complex of Xiao Hong’s literary creation.This paper is divided into four chapters,the first chapter is the formation of Xiao Hong’s childhood complex,which is divided into three sections.The Xiao Hong’s kind and frank,sentimental,paranoid characteristic is due to lonely childhood life and cultural revolutionary in the first and the second.Combined with the influence of childhood image in Lu Xun’s literary creation on Xiao Hong,a rich childhood complex in Xiao Hong’s heart is formed,with accumulating and strengthening constantly.The second chapter focuses on the narration hometown in Xiao Hong’s childhood complex.First of all,the custom in the childhood memory is reflected in her novels.Then,she is sentimentally attached to family and has inextricable homesickness,which was owing to the lack of family care.In the end,the double cognition of hometown is expounded,with the consist of the ideal homeland and the real ignorance of native land.It also reveals Xiao Hong’s affectionate attachment for hometown,which fully shows profound reflection of complex thoughts and feelings her special feelings to her childhood.The third chapter focuses on the influence of childhood complex on Xiao Hong’s narrative strategy.Firstly,child language presents the childlike innocence,such as: plain language and poetic language,which was due to children lack of systematic thinking and memory.Then,the multidimensional perspective of children is selected by the Xiao Hong in his works.It is caused that the storyline and narrative style is more vivid and real,who has a flexible switch from the children perspective to adult perspective.Therefore,the “polyphony” narrative charm presents.In the fourth chapter,the significance of Xiao Hong’s childhood complex is explained,as mainly following aspects: inner depression consolation,criticism of the adult world outlook,pursuit of the ideal and free life.By the realistic approach to writing,Xiao Hong reflects the living conditions of the poor people in the society in the new democratic period,combined with child life originating childhood perspective and feelings.As for her,this is denial and criticism of the false,the evils,the ugly.Meanwhile,it shows singing and yearning of the true,the good and the beautiful.This is precisely the difference between Xiao Hong and her female writers.