On The Urban And Rural Writing In Qiao Ye’s Novels

As one of the representative female writers in Henan Province,Qiao Ye has achieved fruitful results in her fictional creation.She mainly focuses on the dual space of urban and rural areas with her unique writing style.Qiao Ye writes about people who take a different path,flee to a separate place,and seek a unusual life.She also represents their individual experience and emotional memories between the city and the countryside.These people are marginalized ones in the city and outsiders in the countryside.Being in the countryside means reluctance,leaving the countryside means hardship,and returning to the countryside is accompanied by a sense of helplessness.Whether they are fleeing or returning,people on the road are still inextricably linked to the countryside.This paper will proceed from the countryside and the city.It places Qiao Ye’s works in the space,and interprets the spiritual connotation of her works through characters,plot and other contents.The introduction part discusses the motivation of topic selection and the research significance of this paper mainly,and sorts out relevant research results of Qiao Ye’s works.The first chapter expounds Qiao Ye’s examination and retrospection of the countryside.Qiao Ye writes delicately about the memories of the countryside.Besides,she focuses on the individual’s psychological turmoil and the disintegration of the countryside in the background of changing times.On the other hand,when an individual’s mind drifts in the city and has no place to rest so turns to the hometown.Qiao Ye puts this emotional experience into her works,and conveys the special feelings for the countryside with her retrospect.The second chapter discusses Qiao Ye’s critique and realistic presentation of the spiritual core in urban space.Qiao Ye writes about the spiritual distress of people in the urban space and the degradation brought from the urban.Her critique and reflection on the spiritual ecology of the city can be seen from the perspective of the countryside.On the other hand,Qiao Ye inquires into her unique perception of urban space and life from the perspective of the city.Also,she writes about the modern environment and daily warmth in urban space with daily writing style.The third chapter elaborates Qiao Ye’s portrayal of women in the dual perspective of urban and rural areas.It also describes the spiritual dilemmas of characters and explicates the feminine consciousness in Qiao Ye’s works.Qiao Ye focuses on the fate of women who live in the countryside,leaves the countryside and returns to the countryside,and touches on the spiritual suffering of women in the domestic space and social space.In the urban space,Qiao Ye concerns the psychological world of women,presents their spiritual dilemmas and the way to break out in the family relationship to reveal their secrets and convey the reflection on their own fate.The fourth chapter reveals Qiao Ye’s self reflections on the relationship between city and countryside,individual choices and modernity of profound consideration in the process of returning to the countryside in the dual perspective of city and countryside.The experience of living between urban and rural areas provides Qiao Ye think about the differences and barriers between urban and rural areas deeply.However,urban and rural areas are never two opposing sides.The spiritual dilemmas of women in the urban-rural space and the changing times prompt Qiao Ye to create abundant thoughts on the individual’s return to themself and the desire to face the true heart in her works.The distance of time and space and the perspective of city and countryside also make Qiao Ye’s leaving,adoring and returning to the hometown constitute a great tension of the local experience.The concluding chapter explores the overall creative value of Qiao Ye’s novels and analyzes her personal characteristics and development prospects in writing.Qiao Ye’s writing about the city and the countryside in a dual perspective as a female writer is rare and worthy of attention and study in the literary region of Henan Province.Qiao Ye criticizes reality with a unique and warm writing style always.Furthermore,she innovates new ideas into her creation works as the experience grows constantly,and never ceases to produce on the road of writing.