여성의 주체되기 양상과 그 한계― 티에닝(鐵凝) ≪장미문≫(玫瑰門)에 나타난 증상 읽기

Abstract

The starting point of this paper is to question the possibility of women’s power relationship in Tie Ning’s first novel Rose Gate. This work mainly tells the story of three generations formed by her grandmother, aunt and the protagonist, little Su Mei. Unlike other studies that trace the memory of the Cultural Revolution and the perspective of women, this paper focuses on the period when gender differences were replaced by absolute class rights, forming a distorted women’s Hierarchical order. Moreover, focusing on the hierarchical order formed by three generations of women, this paper observes the various struggles of women in the novel, and investigates the meaning of their behaviors and the “objects” they are trying to resist. Another point to be noted is that during the period of Cultural Revolution, women still exist as patriarchal shadows. Even after the extended family was transformed into a nuclear family, it was also depicted as a woman who is subordinate to the patriarch. When the protagonist overlapped with the background of the Cultural Revolution at that time, there will be a symptom. So with this point in mind, the author further explores the historical environment that formed this deformity at that time. Thus the women’s Hierarchical order can be questioned. Furthermore, this paper will eventually understand the relationship between modern socialist state and the women through the distorted women’s Hierarchical order that appears in the Tie Ning’s novel.