Abstract
There are three key points for the understanding Yan Lianke's non-fictive work They, the Women: the way of life, the study of women centering on "the third sex" and the imagination of native-soil China with non-fiction as the method. They respectively correspond to three dimensions of the work: the content, the author's thought, and the creation of literary style. These three dimensions are closely intertwined and focus on one issue: how to understand and imagine contemporary native-soil China. The numerous characters and their stories in They, the Women are woven together by the author's language and thought with strong subjectivity, and the writing style switches between history and fiction, which constructs a set of "relationship network". From the perspective of pursuing the originality of literary style, the focus of They, the Women goes beyond recording women and representing the time; the work, instead, guides us to think with contemporary native-soil women and to empathize with native-soil society through a set of "structures" imagined by the author.
First Page
34
Last Page
43
Recommended Citation
Ye, Zhudi, and Leiguang Wang. 2020. "The Way of Life, "The Third Sex", and the Method of Reconstructing "Literary Native Soil": Centering on Yan Lianke's They, the Women." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 40, (6): pp.34-43. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol40/iss6/20
