An Analysis of Feminine Consciousness in Husin's Novel Four Forty-Year-Old Women in the Perspective of Spatial Theory
Hu Xin's representative short story Four Forty-Year-old Women unfolds its story through the recollection of four 40-year-old women and in just a few hours of conversation,the protagonists recount twenty years of their life ex-periences and journeys.The moments of their lives that they recall demonstrate the interdependence and resistance of both genders in the domestic space,a space that unites multiple forces and complex relationships of society,culture,gender,and identity.Through this reminiscence narrative,the author expresses a strong sense of feminine conscious-ness in pursuit of independence and equality.