New gains in the study of gender forms of women's novels

Gender form research starts from the narrative of literary works, perspective, person, person, structure, quotes, rhetoric and other text elements to explore the social gender meaning of women's novels. It is not only a female literary research at the narrative level, but also a narrative study of gender position. The book "Research on Social Gender in the Form of Women's Novels in New Century: Social Gender Research" of women's novels has conducted in -depth analysis Essence

■ Zhang Wenjuan

Gender form research is a relative edge existence from the research of literary works. Compared with the content of gender politics, it is still a relative edge. The latter is a research idea of ​​subverting and resisting the patriarchal culture from the level of female characters, plot architecture, theme intent, etc., which is widely known for the academic circles and is the mainstream method of female literary research. The research of gender form is based on the narrative, perspective, person, person, structure, quotes, rhetoric and other text elements to explore the social gender meaning of women's novels.

Gender -form research can be said to be both female literary research at the narrative level and narrative studies of gender positions. In the Chinese academic community, compared to the deep accumulation of social and historical criticism and ideological research, narrative studies are still too thin, and the theoretical resources of modern narrative are mostly Western discourse. Gender form research (sometimes referred to as feminist narrative studies) is also often on the marginal territory that is not concerned, or is considered a misunderstanding of exotic and Westernization. Fortunately, some scholars are conducting the original and in -depth and solid gender form research attempts. Professor Sun Guirong published a new book "From the new period to the new century: the social gender research of women's novel narrative forms" (Shandong University Press 2022) is like this. A research practice.

The book is the results of the later funding project of the National Social Science Fund, consisting of the theory and twelve chapters. With a length of 400,000 words, it conducted in -depth and meticulous analysis of the social gender implies reflected in the formation, development, and changing process of female novels from the new period to the new century narrative form.

The content of this book contains the theoretical resources of social gender research under the perspective of narrative. Since the new period, Chinese women's literature changes from content to formal social gender research. The formal elements of female novel forms such as perspectives, names, citations, structures, rhetoric and other female novel forms have been from the new era. By the expression of gender discourse in the new century, from personal narrative to collective narrative, from fragmented structure to fragmented micro -text, from "her writing" to "her reading", it flows, and so on. The combination of theoretical discussion and practice analysis is a prominent point of the book. Its joint expansion and deepening the current weak gender research.

Theoretically, this book has a solid comparison and analysis of feminist narrative resources in China and Western academic fields, pointing out that the gender form research theory of feminist narrative studies has the "context and genderization" of traditional narrative studies. The dual characteristics of the "formalization" of traditional female literary criticism, but there are radicals and absolutes in Western feminist narrative science. Its theoretical resources are based on the analysis of the gender form of English literature, syntax, and rhetoric. There are localization and embarrassment of the context of the times and language context. Therefore, the book proposes a proposition of "Sinicization" of feminist narrative theory, and provides a wealth of analysis support for the construction of this "Sinicization" theory with solid text practice.

In the practice of text analysis, the book includes many propositions of female novels from the new period to the study of narrative forms in the new century. Like the level of narrative, the female novels in the 1980s; from the 1980s to the 1990s, the 1980s will come in the 1980s to the 1990s. By the 21st century, the subtle changes and adjustments of female novel narrative forms; the generation of new narrative forms in the context of the new media and their social gender reasons; the relationship between narrative forms with readers and their gender construction, and so on.

The research target of this book includes the perspective of female novels in the past 40 years, character citation, autobiography narrative, discourse authority, collective narrative, fragmented narrative, "feminine" narrative, etc., which can be said to cover the narrative of women's novels since the new period of China. All aspects of form research.

Through the in -depth intervention of the theory of feminist narrative, the book breaks the disadvantages of perceptual, fluttering, and scatteredization of previous female novels, and strengthen the theoretical depth of gender research in the form of narrative form; Sexual texts or cultural phenomena, transform people's names, perspectives, distance, rhetoric, audience and other narrative language objects into specific and sensible text analysis objects to enhance the proportion of narrative analysis in female novel research; By the systemic, rational, and overall analysis of the form of narrative forms of women's novels in the new century, break the pattern of content research dominant in the study of gender politics in traditional female literary research, and use the interactive research of narrative and gender construction to reflect the research of social reality. Establishment.

Some viewpoints in this book can give people a refreshing sense, like women/men's writing without universal sex, text forms have a decisive role in infiltrating the gender perception of social sex, readers build social gender concepts by reading narrative works; social gender research in the form of narrative forms The goal is to study how gender is generated through the narrative process or acceptance process, not the gender of this process; collective narrative, fragmented narrative, "women's direction" narrative, etc. , With a distinctive gender meaning, and experienced a certain durable development process, the new century women's novels after the tide of private writing also have a distinctive gender formal characteristics; The pattern, and the interactive research of narrative and gender construction reflects the research intensity and depth of intervention in social reality; and so on. Professor Sun Guirong has been cultivating in the field of women's literature research for many years. The research results have won the Shandong Provincial Social Sciences Excellent Achievement Award, the annual outstanding work award of the Chinese Literature and Art Review, the Outstanding Achievement Award for Contemporary Literature Research, and the Shandong Provincial Excellent Doctoral Paper Award. The publishing of this book is an important gain in the study of female novel narrative.

(Professor of the author of Qufu Normal University)

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