Author(s)

Yihao Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Literature, Journalism and Communication, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China

Corresponding Author

Yihao Zhang

ABSTRACT

There is an inherent connection between Eileen Chang's creative ideas and Western feminist theory. She speaks from the perspective of women and recounts the bloody and tearful history of women silently seeking survival under the oppression of patriarchy for thousands of years. Her representative work The Golden Cangue has rich interpretive value and historical connotations related to gender. The protagonist, Cao Qiqiao, is a female figure with a strong sense of survival who struggles against man. However, under the ravages of patriarchal cultural discourse, she leads her descendants into a place without light. Therefore, based on the perspective of the other in feminist theory, this article points out the image of the other and its lineage evolution in the patriarchal context of The Golden Cangue. Starting from the survival dilemma faced by Cao Qiqiao under the patriarchal system and the resulting self-alienation, this study explores the tragedy of the other survival, showcases the contradiction between Cao Qiqiao's survival consciousness and reality's resistance factors, providing inspiration for the awakening of female consciousness at present.

KEYWORDS

Cao Qiqiao; feminism; the other; survival; tragedy

CITE THIS PAPER

Yihao Zhang, "Entering the Place without Light"—Cao Qiqiao's Other Survival Tragedy from the Perspective of Feminism. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 39-46. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070507.

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