Body Writing In Yan Geling’s The Lost Daughter Of Happiness

As one of the most influential overseas Chinese women writers,Yan Geling has a unique cross-cultural background and rich life experience.Since the 1980 s,she began to publish her works and attracted widespread attention at home and abroad.As a female writer,Yan Geling’s works embody strong female consciousness and humanistic care.She has been thinking about the collision and integration between Chinese and Western cultures,and put the female issues in the context of globalization,writing about the survival and destiny of women,and shaping a series of full and vivid female images full of vitality in literary works.At the same time,as an overseas Chinese writer,Yan Geling has a deep understanding of the marginal status of Chinese.Her works reveal her humanistic care and compassion for the Chinese immigrants.This paper mainly from the perspective of body,using the theories of feminism,postcolonialism,narratology,etc.,to interpret the gender dilemma and identity dilemma faced by the Chinese immigrants in Yan Geling’s The Lost Daughter of Happiness,and analyze Yan Geling’s body writing’s resistance and subversion to the dilemma.At the same time,it explores Yan Geling’s narrative strategy in the process of body writing.The first chapter analyzes the gender and identity dilemmas faced by Chinese women headed by The Lost Daughter of Happiness in Yan Geling’s works.On the one hand,women’s bodies are materialized and disciplined in patriarchal society;on the other hand,their bodies encounter the gaze of western vision.Yan Geling deconstructs patriarchal system and western strong culture through the self construction of women’s bodies.The second chapter explores the racial dilemma of Chinese men’s bodies in the western world.Chinese men are the "other" in the western world.Their language barriers and intolerant national character cause them to lose the right to express themselves.Their unique appearance and image are disgusted by the white people,which makes Chinese have to face the exclusion and violent discipline of the west,and suffer severe physical and mental trauma.Yan Geling aims to dispel thestereotype of western culture towards the East and rebuild the confidence of national culture by shaping the heroic body of Dayong and displaying the body of Chinese in the fighting scene.The third chapter discusses the body narrative strategy in Fusang.Yan Geling is famous for her unique narrative style.In her novels,she skillfully uses the space to express the body,excavates the inner feelings of the characters through the external space,and constructs the space through the body.On the other hand,Yan Geling is good at film narration,pays attention to the visual writing of the body,enhances the aesthetic effect through the use of body color and close-up shot,which provides a new direction for the writing of the body.Through the writing of the body,Yan Geling tries her best to reveal the life consciousness and emotional experience of women,deconstructs the cultural hegemony of male power,establishes the discourse mode belonging to women,integrates the female discourse into the writing of the body,highlights the gender characteristics of women,and breaks through the single male centered narrative.At the same time,Yan Geling extols the spirit and attitude of the Chinese immigrants represented by Da Yong in the western world full of racial discrimination,trying to break the stereotype through their bodies by shaping a masculine body.Through body writing,Yan Geling shows strong female consciousness and national consciousness,demonstrates the self-esteem and self-confidence of the Chinese nation,and encourages her compatriots to stick to their self in different cultures.