Analysis Of Body Writing In Su Tong’s Novels

The body was once regarded as the root of human evil and the whole of individual existence.Since modern times,the body as a research object has been discussed in social,cultural,literary and other contexts,and its meaning has gradually diversified and enriched.In literary works,the body is often regarded as the writing object because of the intention of thought representation,and it is also highlighted in the creative activities because the body is necessary for human action.Writer Su Tong has a profound body consciousness because of his special life experience,which is reflected in the creation of a large number of body writing in his novels.The body in Su Tong’s works is rich in meaning.His novels reveal the primitive instinct of human beings and the nothingness of human existence with soft and delicate body narration,and reveal the domestication of human beings by the system and the domination of reproduction instinct on the body with strange and mysterious body depiction.His body writing has profound cultural metaphorical significance.The thesis consists of five parts.The introduction mainly expounds the development process of the body theory and Su Tong’s own body awareness.Simultaneously,sorts out the existing research results related to Su Tong and discusses the reasons for the topic selection of the thesis.The first chapter explores the original writing of the body to show the human instinct desire and violent nature in Su Tong’s view of human nature,and reveals the hidden goodness of human nature.The second chapter analyzes the spiritual predicament of the body presented in the novel,and reveals the loneliness predicament of body existence and the meaninglessness of people’s escape against the predicament.The third chapter analyzes the physical predicament of the body presented in the novel,and explains the physical manifestation of human’s physiologic pain,the external discipline and the death of life.The fourth chapter focuses on the gender display of the body in Su Tong’s novels,and explores Su Tong’s thinking and creation attitude towards gender through the analysis of the primitive reproduction worship and the representation of female body ownership in the novels.Finally,the thesis summarizes the meaning and uniqueness of Su Tong’s body writing,trying to fully explore the humanistic value of Su Tong’s novels through the display of the body to people.