The Fantasy and the"Melancholy"During the"Setbacks"of the Revolution:Rereading Ding Ling's Girl Ah Mao
This article interprets Girl Ah Mao in the context of the era after the failure of the Great Revolution in 1928 and explores the complex implications of the"melancholy"of the characters in Ding Ling's early fictions.The process from the generation of fantasy to the final destruction of Ah Mao can also be regarded as a metaphor for the spiritual and emotional journey of intellectual women after the May Fourth Movement.From Ah Mao's spiritual adventure into the"modern"era,we can glimpse the operating mechanism of fantasy and the logic implied by the related"vanity",as well as the phantom of the"love is best"popular in the 1920s.Ding Ling made a criti-cal analysis of these ideological discourses and mental symptoms with the imprint of the times in a unique literary way.
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