Analysis of Fu Caiyun's “Dissolute Beauty” and Zeng Pu's “Struggle Between Two Minds” ：a study based on Bakhtin's Polyphony in perspective
Fu Caiyun, the “Reckless Beauty”, is the most complex artistic character created by Zeng Pu in Sinful Sea Flowers, which has received mixed reviews from academics. The reason for the controversy is the obvious polyphony of Sinful Sea Flowers. Zeng Pu does not narrate Fu Caiyun's story with t...
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
2024
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| Summary: | Fu Caiyun, the “Reckless Beauty”, is the most complex artistic character created
by Zeng Pu in Sinful Sea Flowers, which has received mixed reviews from academics.
The reason for the controversy is the obvious polyphony of Sinful Sea Flowers. Zeng Pu
does not narrate Fu Caiyun's story with the absolute authority of the author, Fu Caiyun
has a subjective position in the novel, and she expresses her own voice and forms a
double-subject dialogue with the author Zeng Pu's voice. Thus Fu Caiyun becomes a
“Reckless beauty” with polyphonic characteristics in Sinful Sea Flowers. The
polyphony of “Reckless Beauty” is the result of Zeng Pu's “two minds struggle” with
the historical and cultural context in which he lives. The blending of “new” and “old”
identities, the cultural dialogue between “Chinese” and “Western” influences are
internal conflicts that impacted Zeng Pu's rewriting of Fu Caiyun, rendering her
character with a polyphonic nature of multiple voices. The text is filled with dialogues
between Zeng Pu's “self”' and the “other” Fu Caiyun. Essentially, this represents a
double-voiced polyphony of Zeng Pu's conscious and unconscious minds, embodying
the “struggle between two minds” within his internal subjective world. |
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