清末小说和现代女性形象的形成

Novels at the End of Qing and Images of Modern Women

清末是中国文学从传统向现代转型的一个重要阶段。以新小说和新女性为重点的文化诉求,使得这一时期成为文学中现代女性形象开始形成的关键时期。清末小说中女性形象的建构,在性别革命的意义上,不管是民族解放还是个人解放,都有多层面的反映,20世纪女性的问题在清末几乎已经被悉数提出。而清末文化失调的语境,造成现实的女性和想象的女性之间的距离,形成了清末小说中女性形象的张力。

End of Qing is an important period in which traditional style of Chinese literature was being replaced by modem literature as new novels and new images of women become primary pursuit and a crucial period in which images of modem women began to e- merge. Construction of images of women became meaningful not only at the level of sex revolution but also for individual as well as national liberations. Women＇s issues of the 20th Century were actually raised at the end of Qing. However, due to imbalanced literary discourse, a distance existed between women in actuality and women as imaged, leaving room for expansion in novels of the Late Qing.