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A study on Tie-ning’ How far is forever

Choi Eun Jeong 1

1계명대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on BaiDaxing(白大省)'s desire to change, meaning of it and an aspect of women's survival appeared in the process of realizing desires. Baidaxing's desire goes through the process of ‘becoming a good person’, ‘becoming-Xidanxiaoliu(西单小六)’, and ‘becoming a mother’. Her attempt to ‘become-something’ is a gesture trying to escape from the framework that defines her. However, it is distorted since she has been bound by the frame of patriarchy, failing to realize her desires and further generating alternative life. Through this, Tie Ning(铁凝) shows an aspect suggesting women still are the subject of ‘being showed’ and the fact of women's life internalizing it. In this sense, BaiDaxing's perspective on the reality of women's survival and the self-awareness of women coping with that fact is quite cold and objective. The meaning of BaiDaxing's description as a description of women's survival is in the very fact. However, the fact that Tie Ning concluded BaiDaxing's desire to change by ‘becoming a mother’ and granting meanings to it is somewhat problematic in that people can project emotional expectations of patriarchy internalized in ‘mother’ to women. This can lead numerous ‘BaiDaxing’ to settle in the ‘territory’ in which patriarchy assigns women by beautifying them into ‘goodness’ that human should preserve and maintain.

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