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The Construction of Women's Desire and Men's Authority—— The Narrative Model and its Cultural Expla

Article Summary by: TsingHua    

Original Author: JOURNAL OF HUBEI INSTITUTE FOR NATIONALITIES
After analysing Zhang Ziping's love novels, we can induce three models of narration and discourse. The first one is the
"ornament" model, the second pursuing the "virgins", and the third one "loose women" archetype. These three models are all discourse of typical male-centralism. They are also an outcome of the private ownership. Their nature is to negate the value and significance of women's independent life. Whether examined from the text tactics, narrative posture, or from the style of discourse, all of Zhang's novels are the text of the male supremacy culture, and embody the stand of the male supremacy value. Through different women's experiences of frustrations and their unfair fates about love and marriage in Zhang's novels, we can see the great tensile force of the male supremacy culture and discourse. That is, women want to revolt and over turn men's authority; and they have launched an attack actively, but what they get is a negative result, which more forcibly constructs men's authority and strengthen it. Also, Zhang's novels expose that women live in an awkward and absurd situation and will always meet a tragic fate with male selfish departmentalism as the value standard. Therefore, "the new women" created by Zhang Ziping's are actually" pseudo- new women". There is no significance of anti-feudalism in his novels at all.
Published: June 30, 2000
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