The Intricacy of Narrative of the Other in Colonial Literature — Using the female characters created by women during the Occupation Period in Northeast China as an example

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yanbian University, Yanji, Jilin, China

^* Corresponding author: Gmc44016484@gmail.com

Abstract

Different from the Other that Western academic Edward Wadie Said proposed in Orientalism, the Narrative of the Other in East Asian colonial literature has unique and nuanced features. Literary works during the Northeast China Occupation Period were varied and quite representative of the period, given the resistance movements and colonial administration. During this period of modernization in China, women’s writing developed rapidly, and many works were preserved in newspapers and publications. This article will focus on exploring the female characters written by female writers during that period, to examine the complexity of the Other: Self-othering and writing back to Other in cultural self-colonization; Women were viewed as the Plural Others under colonial conquest and sexual dominance. Secretly rebel and deconstruct the other in Cultural decolonization. One of the most emblematic colonial literary periods in contemporary Chinese history is the occupation of Northeast China. Studying the relationship and complexity of the female and narrative of the Other of this period can supplement and deepen our understanding of the complex forms of colonial cultural construction.