How did the new feminist literature in Taiwan Province Province come into being and develop?

Female writers have always been a new force in Taiwan Province's contemporary literary world. Their existence and development have added dazzling brilliance to Taiwan Province's literary world. Especially since the 1980s, the new feminist literature in Taiwan Province Province has sprung up suddenly, creating a new landscape, which makes the trend of multicultural creation in contemporary literary circles in Taiwan Province Province more obvious: the situation that modernist literature or vernacular literature outshines others has become history.

The emergence and development of female literature can not be separated from specific social conditions. In the early 1970s, the economic take-off and social transformation in Taiwan Province Province created an objective social environment for the awakening of women's consciousness and the rise of the new women's movement. At that time, the radical feminist movement in the West, especially the large-scale women's liberation movement that broke out in the United States in 1970, had a great influence on women in Taiwan Province Province, and the new feminist rights in Taiwan Province Province developed under such a background.

For a long time, women have become an indispensable force in the social development of Taiwan Province Province. With the continuous improvement of education level and employment rate, they have gained a certain economic status. However, they still can't get the corresponding status and respect in society. Faced with this social reality, a women's movement appeared in Taiwan Province Province, vigorously promoting new feminism, severely criticizing the traditional concept of stifling women's rights and dignity as "human beings", calling for the elimination of social discrimination and prejudice against women, demanding the establishment of an ideal society of equality and harmony between men and women, and emphasizing women's own self-awareness and self-improvement. The banner of "New Feminism" played by the women's movement in Taiwan Province Province has had a far-reaching influence on women writers in Taiwan Province Province. Thus, the new feminist literature appeared. New feminist writers, such as Zeng Xinyi, Li Ang, Liao Huiying, Xiao Sa, Zhu Xiujuan, Yuan Chiung chiung, Su Weizhen, Jiang Xiaoyun, Li Yuanzhen and Yang Xiaoyun. With a strong sense of mission and responsibility, facing the unequal status of men and women in society and the problems arising therefrom, observing the changes of women's rights and psychological mechanism in social transformation, he created quite a few works with realism as the main body, which had a certain social impact. Most of these women writers were born around the fifties, which is different from the previous "aristocratic writers". Most of them are highly educated, active and good at thinking. Their works often carefully analyze life and society through the fate of women, which is both readable and thoughtful. Women writers have won awards in succession in major literary awards in Taiwan Province with aggressive momentum. For example, Su Weizhen, 1980 to 1984 won several awards in the United Daily News, including novellas, short stories, extremely short stories and essays. Her award-winning novella Beauty is Old has aroused great repercussions in the literary world. Since 1979, Xiao Sa has won literary awards of major newspapers almost twice a year. Since the first publication of 198 1, the small award-winning novel "A Thousand Rivers with Water and a Thousand Rivers with Moon" has been printed for nearly 30 editions. In addition, there are Yuan Chiung chiung, Liao Huiying and Jiang Xiaoyun. From time to time, they appear on the winners' lists of various literary awards. The titles of many of their works, such as My Sky, No Return, Stay with him for a while, etc., all appear in the form of social buzzwords, so they have a good communication effect.

Taiwan Province's new feminist literature is guided by a strong rebellious spirit. By exposing and criticizing the accumulation of traditional culture and subverting the order in male chauvinism, literature can reflect on and counter women's way of life. At the same time, with the realistic spirit of facing life directly, from the aspects of marriage structure, family model, love concept and career prospect, the author writes about the difficulty of women in Taiwan Province Province changing from traditional love women modern women's role in the era of economic transformation and rapid changes in social values in Taiwan Province Province. The female images in the works gradually moved from the original subordinate position to the main position, but the price they paid for pursuing independence was also huge.

In the late 1970s, Zeng Xinyi took the lead in publishing a novel with a new feminist color, which marked a turning point in female literature. Zeng Xinyi, formerly known as Zeng Taisheng, was originally from Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province, and was born in Tainan in 1948. Graduated from the Department of Mass Communication and the Department of Evening School of Taiwan Province Private Chinese Culture College. She was born in poverty, worked as a beautician in a cosmetics company, and worked as a clerk and secretary in a department store. 1974 started literary creation. Her representative works are: Cai Feng's Wish, Julie's Special Night, Waiting and Those Girls. The heroines in these works all love life and are eager to support their own sky by their own strength. However, the cruel social reality shattered their dreams, and the dark cloud of male chauvinism hung over them. But after all, they have begun to wake up and bravely break away from the shackles of male power to create their own lives.

Cai Feng's wish created a brilliant heroine, Cai Feng. She comes from a poor family. At the age of twelve, she was forced to work as a clerk in a department store. Her greatest wish is to "change the living environment" to "repay her parents' hard work and love for raising her for many years".

The novel revolves around her participation in the singer election. Ruthless reality shattered her good wishes. When the restaurant owner took her to the "Metropolitan Hotel" to accompany "Mr. Japan", she woke up from a dream and knew that running for the singer was just a scam. She wanted to be a singer in exchange for her health. The novel successfully created a self-respecting, self-respecting and self-loving girl in the lower class. She has gradually matured in the tempering of life, has a strong sense of self-reliance, and knows how to control her own destiny. From Cai Feng's difficult situation and struggle, we can see that despite the grim reality, a new generation of women in Taiwan Province Province have stood up with their heads held high. In Zeng Xinyi's works, many insulted and damaged female images have been created, including dancers, bar girls, prostitutes and salesgirls. Through them, it reflects the tragic fate of middle and lower class women in capitalist commercial society, expresses the author's sympathy for these compatriots and sisters, and makes an unfair voice to the society that forces women to engage in prostitution. Zeng Xinyi's works do not win by plot, but are good at detailed psychological description of characters, but their ideological tendency is too straightforward.

In the upsurge of new feminist literature in Taiwan Province in 1980s, Li Ang was a writer with the strongest female modern consciousness and critical spirit.

Li Ang is called "Rebellious Woman", formerly known as Shi Shuduan. Her elder sister, Ms. Shi, and her second sister, Shi Shuqing, are literary critics and novelists in Taiwan Province Province respectively. She was born in 1952, a native of Lugang Town, Xinhua, Taiwan Province Province, and graduated from the Department of Philosophy with a master's degree in American drama.

The theme of Li Ang's works is mainly to show the relationship between men and women. With great courage and innovative spirit, she launched a fierce attack on feudal traditional concepts and unreasonable social reality. Her works include: Lucheng Story, The World, Their Tears, Killing Husband, Night, etc. The common feature of these works is that they reflect social life with women as the center. Killing her husband is her first novella and her most influential work. After winning the prize, the novel was put on the screen, which caused a great shock in the literary world. The works convey the tragedy of women who bear the burden of forbearance on the road of resistance with thrilling stories. The heroine was married by her uncle to the tyrannical and vulgar butcher Chen as a "meat ticket" for eating meat for a long time without money. Lin Shi has been treated as an animal for a long time. She was beaten, humiliated and even brutally abused. After being brutally abused by her husband, Lin Shi was in a trance for a while, picked up a knife and slaughtered her husband as a pig. She was also sentenced to death for killing her husband. Not only in politics and economy, but also in sex life; It is just a tool for men to release their desires anytime and anywhere, and the tragedy of Shilin is the epitome of the fate of women in China under the patriarchal rule. Her resistance is the awakening of women's self-consciousness under the confinement of feudal patriarchal clan system.

Liao Huiying, known as a pure "female writer", wrote about the tragic life of women in Taiwan Province Province for 30 years, profoundly revealing the multiple problems of women's fate, situation, status and self-liberation. The mother of A Hui, the protagonist of Rape Flower, was born in a famous family. It's a pity that she met a bad guy and married a dissolute son. This mother, who was deeply educated by the feudal ethics of "three cardinal guides and five permanents" and "three obedience and four virtues", hated her husband's selfishness, laziness and irresponsibility and was willing to clean up the mess for him. Ah Hui's grandfather also used the phrase "Cha Dong is rapeseed" to comfort his daughter who was unhappy in marriage. Her mother spent her whole life "resigned to her fate, and refused to speak". Not only that, she kept instilling her daughter with the fate view of "rapeseed", and she plausibly said, "What do you care?" Cha's son is a sesame seed, which grows where it falls. If you're not married, you'll have a good life. -Your brother will pass on Li's cigarettes in the future. What do you care about her? I don't know your last name. "Knowing that her daughter was admitted to a prestigious university that everyone admired, she actually said to the notice:" Pigs are not fat, and fat goes to dogs. "Mother's" teaching "to her daughter has actually entered the psychology of all people, including women themselves, as a historical cultural tradition, which has made generations of women lose themselves under the control of this psychology and play the tragic role of marriage all their lives. Not only that, they also faithfully spread this male-centered view of fate, which can not but be said to be the deep sorrow of women themselves. Liao Huiying's other works, such as Light Rain Tonight, Scared by the Red Dust and Blind Spot, try to describe the process of women's self-seeking in confusion and show their own value. Blind Spot is Liao Huiying's first novel. After Ding Susu, the heroine of the novel, got married, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was not harmonious because of her mother-in-law's shrewdness and stubbornness, which was followed by increasingly cold feelings between husband and wife, and finally she had to divorce. At the same time, with the support of her father, she founded the "Women's Beauty Rhythm Center". She devoted all her energy to her career and gave full play to her talents. In this process, she realized her own value and became more and more mature. Her marriage has also turned around. The significance of Ding Susu's image lies in her efforts to show that new women break through many obstacles, safeguard their independence and spiritual freedom, open up their own sky, and demand the reconstruction of family ideals of harmony, equality and mutual love.

Ji Xiaotai is another new star in the literary world of Ran Ran compatriots. She was born in 1954, and began to publish works in 1978. So far, she has published more than 30 novels, such as Goddess of Victory, Old Dreams of Love, Eye of the Smoker and so on. Her novels focus on creating female images with independent personality. The image of "revenge angels" appears in many of her works, and their revenge methods are often extremely vicious, completely ignoring the constraints of social norms, which is shocking.

It has always been the theme of feminist writers to reflect the development history and changes of society through the fate of women and explore rich and profound historical and social connotations. However, the female literature in this period was not entirely neo-feminist. For example, the small "Thousand Rivers and Thousand Rivers and Moons" is about the kindness and tolerance of Confucianism in China and the traditional humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation, and Xiao Sa's "Love of Town Doctors" is about the victory of human nature over sex. These works are more of a national tradition which is opposite to the western neo-feminism. They have a great influence in the literary world of Taiwan Province Province, and they are always reprinted in one edition, which shows that the essence of the tradition will be passed down from generation to generation.

In 1990s, with the increasing diversification of literature in Taiwan Province Province, women's literature in Taiwan Province Province has more room for free development. Female literature tends to be leisurely and quiet. Due to the rapid economic development of Taiwan Province Province, people's living standards have improved rapidly, and material civilization has become a reality. Women writers think less about the major themes of life, society and life than before. They have leisure and express the elegant taste of urban life: they write about the daily life of ordinary people, such as making friends, planting flowers, picnicking and traveling. It seems that there is no hardship and bitterness in life, and some are material abundance and comfort and tranquility after self-liberation. The younger generation, such as Xuan Xiaofo, Su Weizhen, Zheng Baojuan, Fang Ezhen and Peng Xiaoyan, etc.

Xuan Xiaofo is a talented young woman writer. Xuan Xiaofo, formerly known as He Longsheng, received strict family education since childhood. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, she published her first novel, Love in the White House, which became an instant hit when she was still in high school. Since then, she has been out of control, and has published dozens of novels one after another, becoming a best-selling author on par with Qiong Yao and San Mao. Her novels have been adapted into movies and TV series and put on the screen. The special life situation has cultivated Xuan Xiaofo's quiet and thoughtful personality and temperament. She has devoted herself to studying philosophy, psychology and history for a long time, forming her creative style different from Qiong Yao and others. Few "dreams" in her novels are about ordinary people in daily life. The characters in the novels are usually mortal, neither absolutely good nor absolutely bad.

In addition, women's literature is developing towards consumption and entertainment. The fast-paced and tense life in the city makes people want to relax after work, so there are more works describing the theme of love and marriage between men and women. Although there is no profound ideological connotation, because of the twists and turns of the story, it is close to urban life and is a good pastime material. Zhu Tianxin and Zhu Tianwen are representatives of "modern optimates", and their works describing the love between men and women in high-rise office buildings of industrial enterprises are welcomed by the public.

In short, in the 1980s and 1990s, women's literature in Taiwan Province Province included both serious works about women themselves and entertaining popular works. In terms of artistic form and expression, it not only contains the delicate realism of traditional female literature, but also absorbs the stream of consciousness of modernism and other expression techniques, showing a multi-faceted scene of mutual penetration and tolerance.