A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian from A Feminist Perspective

Abstract

Feminist literary criticism began in the 1960s, analyzing the characters in literary works from a feminist perspective, opening up the gender dimension for literary criticism. This theory enriched the methodological system of literary criticism and became an important theory of literary criticism. As the theory was introduced into China in the late 1980s, feminist literary criticism in China gradually developed. Researchers have analyzed and interpreted literary works from a feminist perspective, exploring the image of women, the gender issues embodied in them, and the topic of women's writing. This study focuses on the work A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian from a feminist perspective. By adopting the method of close reading of the text and analyzing the experience, status, and character of the female characters in the novel, it explores the current situation of their existence and the problems they face and provides new perspectives and understandings for the interpretation of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. This study takes the novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian as a material, analyzes the character construction in the novel based on feminist literary criticism theories, and explores the author Lewycka's thoughts on the current situation of Ukrainian immigrant women's survival under the male-dominated society in Britain from the perspective of trans-ethnicity, trans-bilingualism, and transculturality.