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This paper will use the novels of novelist Hu Shuwen as the subject of exploration, investigating the narrative elements she repeatedly employs as her writing characteristics. It will further explore how she integrates and examines various interconnected life contexts and traumatic experiences, especially the impact of "gender" and "power" on "female identity recognition." This integration will be analyzed by incorporating the main enlightenment experiences of the characters in her works. The paper will first provide an overview of Hu Shuwen's creative traits and concerns. Through the development of trauma studies, it will indicate the impact of "traumatic" experiences on individuals. It will then discuss the characteristics of politics, time, and space in Hu Shuwen's novel writing and how these aspects influence complex identity recognition. The paper will then delve into the repeatedly portrayed "female growth experiences" in Hu Shuwen's novels, exploring how in the "genderized" traumatic experiences, identity is deprived. The central narrative process, repeatedly written from "enlightenment to survival," will shape the uniqueness of female characters' identity recognition, even endowing them with self-agency. Finally, examples from Hu Shuwen's other short stories and her participation in the "Tree Hole 38" exhibition are presented to illustrate how she extensively applies this framework. In conclusion, it summarizes how "survivor narrative" serves as an approach to gender and trauma writing. A comparison with the concept of "narrative practice" proposed by psychologist Michael White is made, providing an expanded perspective for the "survivor narrative."
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