A study of changing images on men in Shanghai female writers in 20th century-6 female writers as examples / 二十世紀上海女作家小說中男性形象轉變之探討─以六位女作家為例

碩士 / 淡江大學 / 中國文學系碩士班 / 97 / Shanghai female writers are a group of special people whose writing styles are creative. Since1940s, they has experienced approximately three stages. Zhang Ailing and Su Qing are the representatives at the first stage; Wang Anyi and Cheng Naishan are the representatives at the second stage; as well as Wei Hui and Mian mian are representative at the third stage.Although these three stages are different, they have their common characteristics. Therefore, the comprehensive study about the integrity and changing of these three stages is of great value to Shanghai literature, particularly to Shanghai feminine literature.
The political situation in Shanghai was unstable between 1940s and 1950s. Zhang Ailing and Su Qing described males in different ways in their novels. In her novels,Zhang Ailing described men as physical maturity and mental disabilities, while Su Qing depicted them as timid and hypocritical.
Between 80s and 90s, Shanghai faced tremendous transformation. Wang Anyi and Cheng Naishan experienced different growing backgrounds. They had their own ways to describe male. Male and female can talk equally in Wang Anyi''s novels. However, in Cheng Naishan''s novels, male lost power they had. After 1990s, sex was liberated in Shanghai. Wei Hui, Mian mian wrote down the men they met in their lives, describing how they squandered their youth on those men who in their novels became female dependency.
In these three stages, the creative writing styles had changed. In their novels, men and women show their confrontation, understanding, and then sympathy to each other. The process is gradually strengthening the awareness of women''s independence.
This article is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is to introduce the motivation , scope of this paper and the general remarks of male in female writers’ novels; the second chapter is the discussion of material to deal with masculine image in Zhang Ailing''s and Su Qing''s novels between 1940s and 1950s; The third chapter is to study masculine image in Wang Anyi''s and Cheng Naishan''s novels in 1980s and 1990s Shanghai; the fourth chapter is to research masculine image in Wei Hui''s and Mian’s novels in 1990s; the fifth chapter includes conclusion and research suggestions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097TKU05045034
Date January 2009
CreatorsI-Hui Yeh, 葉一慧
ContributorsShung-In Chang, 張雙英
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format189

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