A Study Of Mother-daughter Relationship In Hong Ying’s Literary Collection

In the contemporary literary circles of Chinese,Hong Ying is regarded as the representative of "Feminism" by numerous researchers for her works bold to show the sexual relations and write the women do not succumb to the fate,most researchers tend to agree with that her works have distinctive female consciousness,while ignoring the author as a mother and daughter’s identity and the important influence of the dual identity on her literary works.The writer explores the relationship between the mother and daughter in her works and sees an unusual Hong Ying,she bolds to show the sexual relations and writes the women do not succumb to the fate is the inner reflection of the lack of love and desire to mother,the author is too eager to get the love in her childhood but she didn’t,so she has no choice but to wrap herself with strength,after adulthood,she turns the desire of love to the bold pursuit of love between the sexes.Proceeding from the main line of mother-daughter relationship,the rich social and historical content which brought out by the mother-daughter relationship can be found in the works,meanwhile,the mother-daughter relationship also exist as a narrative strategy in Hong Ying’s novels,the author seeks to decipher the mystery of the character’s life,and the story is crossed in the fragments of reality,history and memory,through the narrative structure of staggered to give the readers a sense of movement,all of these make her works emit a unique artistic charm.This paper attempts to examine the charm of Hong Ying and her works form the relationship between mother and daughter,first of all.the writer discusses the mother-daughter emotion,then digs out the rich social and historical content brought out by the mother-daughter relationship,and discusses the effect of mother-daughter relationship in narrative strategies of Hong Ying’s novels.The writer hopes that through these explorations,we can have a broader and deeper understanding of the author and her works.The thesis is divided into three chapters,the main contents of each part are as follows:The first chapter discusses the mother-daughter emotion in her works.The writer thinks that her works write a variety of mother-daughter emotion,including love,alienation,reflection.reconstruction,regret,so many types of mother-daughter feelings are actually a manifestation of love.All the works relating to mother-daughter relationship,showing the daughter’s extreme lack and desire of love,and showing the transform that the daughter is blaming mother to self reflection,and seeing self forgiveness and self redemption,the author’s emotion has also experienced the change from repression,understanding to tolerance.Through her works in recent years can be seen that she is thankful for what she had,and turns the pursuit of the spirit of personality to the attention of children’s growth.In the recent creation,Hong Ying has been get rid of the "feminism" positioning which the researchers dubbed her.The second chapter discusses the social and historical contents pulling out from mother-daughter relationship in her works.In the works,the author takes the story between mother and daughter as a clue,and takes the big background of the story.These historical backgrounds can be roughly divided into two categories,one is the history of the Republic of the author’s own experience,including Three Years of Natural Disasters.Ten Chaotic Years,Educated youth to the Countryside,Reform and Opening.Go into Business,Going Abroad,Three Gorges Project and so on,the other is the war history of China in the 20-40 of the last century,including Warlords and Gang Wars,Chinese Expeditionary Forces into Burma war,Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor to reverse China’s anti Japanese alone,Chinese Civil War and so on.Through the character’s vivid personal memory,the historical memory of the nation can be truly reproduced.At the same time,this chapter also makes a further arrangement of these social and historical contents,discussing the character distortion in the extreme political and suffering years,and the struggling and faltering in the unfortunate fate.The third chapter discusses the role as the narrative strategy of the mother-daughter relationship in narrative structure in Hong Ying’s novels.The mystery of life is often the important content of her works for decryption,when the author wants to uncover the mystery through the mother-daughter relationship,she always reserve the stroke,turning the plot to the social historical contents,and to cause the structure staggering and jumping.At the same time,for the two narrative texts in Hong Ying’s works:the hidden text of social history through the interaction between man and family,and the core text of the human experience in the suffering of the characters,this chapter also makes an in-depth explanation.