On the contemporary American novel in the deconstruction and feminist literary theory Glimpse

Paper Keywords: feminist literary theory, deconstruction of binary opposition

Abstract: Feminist Literary Theory of the theoretical approach, is fundamentally a method of deconstruction, feminist literary theory as the fundamental purpose is to deny male domination and oppression of women as representative of feminist literary theory, < <>>,<< their own literature, their own house >>,<< a crazy woman on the attic looking for his mother's garden >>,<<>> reflect different aspects of feminism and content development, deconstruction of the male - female dichotomy.


The rise of feminist literary theory, and feminist movements of the production and development are closely related, it is the political movement deep into the cultural product of generally believed that the birth of feminism is the rise of literary theory in the 1960s to the second second feminist movement was the climax of the results of .1970, 凯特米勒特 of <<of political>> publication, marking the formation of feminist literary theory. Since then, the Western feminist literary criticism has continued to flourish in it has gone through three stages: in the early stages of feminist literary criticism has focused on criticism of the Western literary tradition, "misogyny." discrimination against women in this literary tradition, distort and slander the image of women, and the large number of female writers out of the history of literature than in the second stage, feminist literary criticism has focused on exploring the patriarchal literary tradition is the annihilation of women writers and their works, and re-evaluation of traditional literature in the history of women writers and their works in this period a number of important feminist literary Criticism of, such as: 帕特里夏迈 Hayes Parkes (Patricia Meyer Spacks) of <<women imagine>> (The Female Imagination, 1975, Ellen Morse (Ellen Moers's <<literature and women>> (Literary Women, 1976, Xiaowoerte the <<their own literature>> (A Literature of Their Own, 1977), and Sandra Gilbert (Sandra Gilbert and Su Shan Gu Alba (Susan Gubar) of <<attic crazy woman>> (The Madwoman in the Attic, 1979). During this period there was even a black feminist literary criticism, feminist literary criticism and homosexuality in the third stage , feminist literary criticism, literary studies the theoretical basis for a reflection on the experience built on the basis of male literary reading and writing on the viewpoint of traditional theory were correct. feminist literary criticism from many other theories, such as psychological analysis, after structuralism, deconstruction, Marxism, reader-response criticism, new historicism, to borrow a lot of black aesthetics, views and analytical methods to form all sorts of views and ideas.

Deconstruction (deconstruction is the late 1960s from French philosophical thought, the main advocate is Derrida who believes that the Western intellectual tradition is constructed in a dualistic paradigm, based on, for example: speech - writing there - non-existence of nature - the appearance of things - signs, real - lies, consciousness - the unconscious men - and women. logocentric tradition, and that each group of the former than the latter, than the latter important, which is the former derived from the "other" (Other. Derrida level of this difference reflects the dualistic paradigm of criticism, he reversed the order of that level, so that the latter is not low the former, at least the same status and there are also reasons, while deconstruction as a methodology for feminist literary theory offers a very useful tool feminist literary theory theory approach, is fundamentally a kind of deconstruction method, regardless of the perpetrators of this approach is intentional or unintentional and the deconstruction of the principle of fit, because feminist literary theory of the fundamental purpose is to deny the male to female domination and oppression, and to do this point, we must build on existing political, economic and cultural systems disassembled to change the gender of women's disadvantage against the state.

American feminist literary criticism is one of the leading scholars Elaine Xiaowoerte (Eline Showalter throw away the traditional staging of literary history, women's literature at different times according to the characteristics of the literary history of women classified as "female" (Feminine-"feminist "(Feminist) -" Woman "(Female) three times the first period (1840-1880: characteristics of women committed to writing, hoping to reach male culture of achievement, they do not accept self-bias against women, men, mark One of the women writers use the logic of the alias the second period --1880--1920 women began to resist the distortion of their nature, showing high-spirited feminist consciousness in the third period (after 1920 the right of women to oppose both the male literary imitation, but also beyond the opposition of men, they are more into their own artistic experience as the source, in order to establish a real women's literature. Links to free download http://www.hi138.com
<<Their own literary>> - Xiaowoerte and feminist literature, classic building, she advocates building an independent women's history and women's literature classic literature, she considers that the existing male-centered literary classic is a product of their exclusion, neglect women writers. writers and their works became a "pent-up sound." Thus, faced with the important task of feminist criticism is to build women's own literary history and literary classics. <<their own literature, "is women's literature a history of pioneering work in this book, Xiaowoerte criticized the patriarchal literary tradition of women's literature, prejudice, repression and neglect. and from the depth of theoretical literature to find a long-suffering women suppressed, buried reasons. In addition, the < <their own literature>> excavated nearly two hundred are buried in the patriarchal literary tradition of writers. Prove women have their own literature, and women's literature has its own special history and traditions. This work of feminist criticism of the United States had a profound impact, as the comments of Western feminist milestone.

<<An own room>> - Virginia Wolf's "androgyny" concept. Wolf's feminist ideology, published in 1929 <<a own house>> was most direct and fully. "If a woman must have money in order to write novels, but also have an own house." "money" and "a house" not only themselves, but also a symbol of women's economic status is not No literary tradition, there is no creative freedom, the living conditions of the portrayal, but also the women to create the necessary conditions for a symbol Wolf androgyny thinking of is the value of the history of the male value of the standard single arbitrator rebellion. For the attitude of the sexes, she made the ideal of peaceful coexistence of men and women, which can be seen as contemporary feminist deconstruction of the deconstruction of gender dualistic thinking bud.

<<Attic crazy woman>> - Sandra Gilbert and Susan Guba's "anxiety of authorship" theory of Gilbert and Guba in this work, the use of the traditional read and image Research methods. they used the "closed", "cave," "Angel," "Devil," "crazy woman", "Witch" and other imagery and metaphor to discuss the works of women writers. feminist critics of women literature in the traditional male image is divided into two categories: angel and temptress. those beautiful and gentle, obedient and virtuous, quiet dedication to the family myth of women are angels, and those who desire to go home, get rid of male domination, the pursuit of self-worth women were vilified as a temptress, disgust and fear for the men. They believe that because women were "confined" by the men and their definition of their potential among the writers who are always worried they can not be created , worried that they can never become a literary history of the "fathers", worried about the behavior of writing will isolate them, or even destroy them. In order to overcome the concerns of authorship, female writers on the one hand selection is not interested in the genre of male writers and types, such as children and understanding, letters, diaries, etc., on the other hand, to conceal their identity, deny themselves, to imitate male writers writing these writers through both follow the same time to subvert the patriarchal literary standards, to get the real authority of women's literature, thereby They go beyond the anxiety of authorship.

<<Looking for mother's garden>> - Alice Walker's concept of black feminist. Deconstruction and male-centered literary criticism at the same time, inevitably accompanied by the praise of women and development literature, there is inevitably accompanied by the female literary tradition to find in the <<to find the mother's garden>> in Alice Walker pointed out, slavery and racial discrimination in political, economic and social constraints, historically black women's creativity stifled. In sex, race, class, under the triple oppression of black women in American society has become truly invisible man, known as the "world's mule." Walker was the use of sewing Cabernet and the art of cultivating flowers of this silent the form of metaphor suppressed creativity of black women, calling for people to find matriarchal black literature, black women against discrimination of all kinds of literary fallacy, black writer has to demonstrate to the world with their own black men and white women writers, like writers and reliable historical tradition. affected not only by the traditional Alice Walker, as well as Zora Neal Hurston, Toni Morrison and so many black women writers and these writers in a unique black feminist aesthetics and identity as a female double (both black and a woman's unique experience, full description of black women living in the state of American society and their struggle.

Feminist literary theory of the theoretical approach, is fundamentally a method of deconstruction, because feminist literary theory of the fundamental purpose is to deny the male to female domination and oppression, so deconstruction as a methodology of feminist literary theory provides a very useful tool. deconstruction of feminist literary theory offers a new way of thinking: the women's movement should not just aim to get equal rights with men and status, but to wonder if all of the status and power, to avoid the original opposing sides simply to reverse. this new way of thinking, for the full digestion of dualism, in order to build new, do not rule out differences in culture without the existence of female oppression is crucial . Links to free download http://www.hi138.com

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[2] Virginia Wolf. An own house [M]. Wang also translation, Beijing: Joint Publishing, 1989.

[3] Zhang Yan Bing. Feminist Literary Theory [M]. Jinan: Shandong Education Press, 1998.

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