Women's Writing in Xinjiang from the Perspective of Gendered Spatial Negotiation—Take Eighty-Eight Cavalry, Centennial Blood, and Winter Ranch as Examples
Abstract
This research draws on Xinjiang-related writing as its background, responds to the daily experiences of women that are easily obscured by macro narratives in existing discussions, and puts forward the research theme of "how space generates experience". The article chooses Eighty-eight Cavalry, Centennial Blood, and Winter Ranch as the core text. It employs careful reading and comparative analysis of the text. Starting from the action details and physical feelings in the narrative, it examines how the living environment and community order specifically stipulate the boundaries of liveable, feasible, and bearable. The research results show that all three works write space as a condition for continuous pressure, so that the experience is gradually formed in the process of maintaining livelihood, travelling through migration and responding to discipline, and presenting the temporary order generated by night road deflection, survival maintenance, and boundary review in the context of disaster, and nomadic life respectively. The position change and language deformation brought about by "entering". From this, the study further concludes that Xinjiang women's frontier experience does not come from the thematic a priori generalisation, but is generated in the interaction between spatial conditions and daily practice. Therefore, "negotiation" has become a key entrance to understanding women's frontier writing.
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