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Xianfeng Mou Purdue University

One Hundred Years of Solitary Light: Rites of Passage for Modern American and Chinese Women Writers, 1899-1996. Xianfeng Mou Purdue University. Thesis. Modern American and Chinese women writers share a similar cultural journey while manifesting a significant cultural difference. Methodology.

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Xianfeng Mou Purdue University

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  1. One Hundred Years of Solitary Light: Rites of Passage for Modern American and Chinese Women Writers, 1899-1996 Xianfeng Mou Purdue University

  2. Thesis • Modern American and Chinese women writers share a similar cultural journey while manifesting a significant cultural difference.

  3. Methodology • Use Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism and heteroglossia to analyze how women writers position themselves and construct meaning of their existence both within and beyond their cultural environment

  4. Significance • To promote women writers’ global or cosmic perspectives in their artistic visions for humanity • To promote the belief that a leader has to serve those she leads • To advocate love and interconnection during cultural interaction and globalization • To promote mutual borrowing and mutual strengthening for cultural interactions • To advocate change to combat cultural suffocation

  5. Women Artists’ Three-stage cultural journey 1.  Departure for self-discovery 2.  Return of the realized self to serve the community 3.  A second departure to embrace humanity or cosmos From here

  6. Corresponding change of perspectives: stages 1& 2 • Unilateral perspective • Restricted and ideal perspectives gradually converge • Multiple perspectives gradually converge

  7. Corresponding change of perspectives: Welty 3.1 • Multiple perspectives gradually converge

  8. Corresponding change of perspectives: Wang Anyi 3.2 • http://www.cdcontrol.com/alanfreeman/dna2.gif • A rotating human DNA structure

  9. Change of narrative positions through three stages

  10. Narrative forms 1: Chopin

  11. Narrative forms 2: Su Qing

  12. Narrative form 3: Hurston

  13. Narrative form 4: Zhang Jie

  14. Narrative form 5: WeltyCosmic Self in an Eternal Moment

  15. Narrative form 6: Wang Anyi’s world

  16. Conclusion • Women writers in these two cultural traditions experienced a departure—a return—a second departure. • American women writers believe women can triumph over disasters whereas Chinese women writers do not offer such traumatic victories. • To survive, women writers have to relinquish their selves.

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