Water under Time, the novel by the reputed Chinese fiction writer Fang Fang, appropriates and reconstructs the conventions of the hysteric narrative as an affective form of feminine history telling and writing. The no...Water under Time, the novel by the reputed Chinese fiction writer Fang Fang, appropriates and reconstructs the conventions of the hysteric narrative as an affective form of feminine history telling and writing. The novel, which accounts Hankou city＇s past through the heroine＇s life story, illustrates how feminine hysteria provides a gendered lens of reconstructed historical authenticity via the panorama of China＇s early Republican period, the anti-Japanese War, and the present new millennium. Transcending the official historical accounts, Fang Fang＇s narrative features women＇s innovative reconfiguration of contesting historical discourses about the city, the community, and the nation. This study of Water under Time suggests that women＇s explorations of hysteria actually surpass the psychoanalytical reading of hysteria as paradigms of feminine bodily, sexual, and social abjection, and instead envisions it as a validating narrative aesthetic which carries the potential to rewrite the boundaries of gender, nation, and history.展开更多
Golding gave hallucination to characters when they are suffering from hysteria.This paper researches the relation between Simon' s hysteria with hallucination and the revelation of the theme,and finds out that thi...Golding gave hallucination to characters when they are suffering from hysteria.This paper researches the relation between Simon' s hysteria with hallucination and the revelation of the theme,and finds out that this clinical symptom turns to be the window for Golding to tell his theme.展开更多
文摘Water under Time, the novel by the reputed Chinese fiction writer Fang Fang, appropriates and reconstructs the conventions of the hysteric narrative as an affective form of feminine history telling and writing. The novel, which accounts Hankou city＇s past through the heroine＇s life story, illustrates how feminine hysteria provides a gendered lens of reconstructed historical authenticity via the panorama of China＇s early Republican period, the anti-Japanese War, and the present new millennium. Transcending the official historical accounts, Fang Fang＇s narrative features women＇s innovative reconfiguration of contesting historical discourses about the city, the community, and the nation. This study of Water under Time suggests that women＇s explorations of hysteria actually surpass the psychoanalytical reading of hysteria as paradigms of feminine bodily, sexual, and social abjection, and instead envisions it as a validating narrative aesthetic which carries the potential to rewrite the boundaries of gender, nation, and history.
文摘Golding gave hallucination to characters when they are suffering from hysteria.This paper researches the relation between Simon' s hysteria with hallucination and the revelation of the theme,and finds out that this clinical symptom turns to be the window for Golding to tell his theme.
