Today is "March 8th Women's Day",
Famous scholar, professor of Beijing Normal University,
New book by doctoral supervisor Zhang Li
Mirror: Women's Literature Reading Lesson
Listed in Guangdong Huacheng Publishing House.
What does it take to truly respect women? Who defines feminine beauty? What is a woman's decency? How to understand female camaraderie and mutual jealousy? Can money really measure love? Is divorce an abandonment? Will the mother also be kidnapped by the child's expectations? ...... Using literature as a mirror, you can cross gender, connect history, explain the present, and the confusion of women today can be found in this book.
"Mirror" is a popularization course on women's literature, the book starts from the three dimensions of "self, dilemma, relationship" and women's personal relevance, selects 18 literary masters, reads 22 classic works, uses literature as a mirror, illuminates the choices and destinies of Chinese women, vivid and interesting, closely follows the hot issues of women's lives at present, and is a book that can arouse the deep resonance of readers.
Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Xiao Hong, Zhang Ailing, Zhang Jie, Feng Jicai, Tie Ning, Wang Anyi, Su Tong, Bi Feiyu, Chi Zijian, Dong Xi, Shao Li, Zhou Xiaofeng, Li Xiuwen, Wei Wei, Qiao Ye, Li Juan... Zhang Li's women's literature reading class not only pays attention to the works of female writers, but also stands in the female perspective to understand the women written by male writers. In the classic works that are familiar to the public, look for every invisible "she".
▲ Illustration remake of "Mirror: Women's Literature Reading Lesson"
Regarding the book, Zhang Li said, "What I have tried is to interpret literary works from a female perspective and a female standpoint with readers to alleviate our confusion and spiritual difficulties today." I hope that readers who read this book are willing to love, but also have the courage to love, love themselves, and love others; if they meet someone they love, they are also willing to go into marriage and family and take on their own responsibilities. I hope this book is a warm companion for the reader. ”
The criteria for women's success should be defined by themselves
One of the lessons in "Mirror: Women's Literary Reading Lessons" tells the story of writer Chen Hengzhe. Chen Hengzhe was one of the first official american students, the first female university professor, the author of the first vernacular novel, and the mother of three children. How to achieve both family and career is still the most difficult problem for excellent women.
Mirrors: A Literature Reading Lesson for Women discusses more than two dozen issues that are relevant to women today. In the past, our value judgments about women usually came from whether they contributed to the family, but in modern society, we usually judge the value of a woman at the social level, but the judgment of women's value should not be divided into two levels.
The standard of success for women should be defined by themselves – the courage to grope in the dark, convinced that they have strength.
Why read women's literature?
Why emphasize women's literature, because in women's literature, there are generally ignored female perspectives, women's feelings and women's positions. Discussing women, female identity, women's literature, and women's positions is not actually to exclude anything, but to better understand. In the case of women's voices, women's attributes, and women's literature being ignored, paying attention to women and emphasizing women is actually a basic common sense, and we discuss women's literature in fact to find more important equality, so that women's voices, women's positions, and women's achievements in writing are known to more people.
This women's literature course is not advanced, it is popularizing common sense, it emphasizes women's perspectives and women's positions. Emphasizing the female perspective is not only to emphasize the perspective in the works of female writers, but also to interpret the works of male writers from a female perspective and to know the women in the writings of male writers. Only in this way will the real world we see and the literary world we read will be more complex and diverse, rather than more single and closed. That's why we study women's literature, why we have to understand women's literature.
Zhang Li's "Mirror: Women's Literary Reading Lessons" will travel with readers to the literary world: there are both twists and turns of dramatic conflicts, as well as soothing and charming emotional stories, spanning gender, connecting history, and explaining the present. The confusion of women today can be found in the book, which is the warmest companion in spring.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Wu Bo
Photo/ Guangzhou Daily, Xinhuacheng reporter: Wu Bo
Video/Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Reporter: Wu Bo
Correspondent: Yang Chunzi
Guangzhou Daily New Flower City Editor: Dai Yujing