Commodity · Body · Dream——A Polysemous Interpretation of Ding Ling’s "A Small Room in Qingyun Village"

Abstract

The work "A Small Room in Qingyun Village" elaborates on the reasons why women have become capitalist commodities by depicting the normal life of a group of prostitutes. Body writing presents women's bodily experiences, emotions, and desires from a unique perspective, truly caring for the feelings of the prostitute community and transcending traditional concepts. The metaphor of dreams reveals the predicament of women while implying the longing of rural and urban women for a "beautiful spiritual home". This article takes Ding Ling's work "A Small Room in Qingyun Village" as the center, and deeply analyzes the female subject consciousness from three dimensions: commodity, female body awakening, and metaphor of dreams, demonstrating the multidimensionality of human nature.