Introspection And Construction

Since the beginning of the new period, the introduction of Western diverse cultures and resources of literary theories had a great impact on traditional Chinese research patterns. In particular, the introduction of Western feminist theory provides a new perspective of gender research for Chinese native feminist literature and also broadens the research range of feminist literary criticism. On the basis of"use"and"reference", a lot of criticism was putting forward combined with the development of Chinese women's literature in the realm. Through more than 20 years of academic accumulation, feminist literary criticism has gradually become a featured academic field from which people pay close attention to Chinese culture and literature. However, in the process of pursuit and recognition of the Western feminism, the existent issues are also obvious in the feminist literary criticism. Under this premise, the paper explores and regulates the culture and ideology resources of Chinese native women's literature, conducts a comparative study of Western-Chinese feminist literary criticism, analyses and probes into women's originality and literary criticism in order to construct a foundation frame for China's women's literary criticism on the basis of introspecting it as a whole. This paper mainly develops as the following six chapters:Introduction On Non-feminist stand starts from the historical background of Chinese native feminist literary criticism from the new period and point out a stand on non-feminist through the issue of blindly following the western feminism. On the basis of analyzing and summarizing the research development of feminist literary criticism, it elaborates the theoretical root of the academic research; moreover, it expounds the basic research methods used in this paper and the research value as well as the new establishment.The first chapter Home and Abroad: The Correlations and Differences Between Western and Chinese Feminist Literary Criticism , firstly, explores the complicated and diverse culture resources of Chinese native feminist literary criticism so as to analyze and present native ideological structures and cultural visions in terms of western feminist theory. Secondly, it straightens out the basic threads of the western feminist movement and the development of feminist criticism, outlines the evolution of western feminist literary criticism in a new period of China and the impact on Chinese feminist literary criticism and conducts a comparative study of the correlations and differences between western and Chinese feminist literary criticism. It aims to emphasize that blind belief of western cultures and loss of native consciousness will cause that feminist theory results in the pattern of decolonization and singularity of the development of non-western feminist literary criticism; therefore it elaborates only standing on the native criticism can mistakes be avoided. On the one hand, adhering to the native literary criticism inherits the traditional cultural spirit of gender; on the other hand, it critically selects western feminist literary criticism. The study of the above issues awaiting resolution and lack of a systematic study finally points out the direction of exploring the possibility of Chinese feminist literary criticism.The second chapter Perspectives and Realm: Meaning and Value of Women's Literary Creation in a New Period fully reveals the practical significance and the value of women's literary creation in a new period from its evolution and the multi-dimensional possibility. It explores the rich meaning of non-feminist writing from history, reality, living conditions of mankind and the spirit of creativity that the women writers have to face in their writing. Beyond feminism, we can clearly grasp the course of evolution of"feminist consciousness"in contemporary China from the broad sense of"feminine consciousness"and from the process of women's literary creation in a new period. Women's literary creation of the new era always stresses that the hope and force of feminist literary creation lies in continually questioning the existence and significance of thought. From the gender perspective, the feminist literary creation aims to beyond limitations of feminism and emphasize it should be an open and diverse creative practice in terms of the reality of it. The third chapter Recognition and Introspection: Vision and Blindness of Feminist Literary Criticism In a New Period mainly reflects the major deficiencies and errors in the course of Chinese feminist literary criticism following the Western, in two premises: definite of the Western diverse theoretical pattern's significant impact on Chinese feminist literary criticism and of the Western feminist theory's deep influence on Chinese native feminist literary criticism. Owing to confusion and complication of the position of theoretical thinking and thinking patterns, women's literature and its main theoretical concept are still not recognized. Male critics of female participation in literary criticism and dialogue become a neglected blind spot, and in essence it is the ignorance of healthy development of women's literature and criticism. The fascination with Western feminist discourse leads to the focus on critical practice and inspection of gender, the lack of awareness of theoretical construction and artistic exploration and the mistakes of monotonous objects and narrow vision of criticizing. Research shows that women's literature, mainly due to the long narrow theoretical vision, lacks identification and recognition of the resources from Western feminist theory the just follows them blindly.The fourth chapter On the Vision of Chinese Women's Literary Criticism constructs the basic frame of Chinese Women's Literary Criticism from the uniqueness of Chinese native feminist literary criticism. The exploration of the premise of constructing feminist literary criticism is to think forward of the development of Chinese women's literature; furthermore, its construction aims at filling gaps in the critical theory and eliminating the coverage impact of feminism. Hence, its main characteristic lies in its gender and native feature and structural filling. Exploring the lives of women literary critics, the relationship between culture and gender generation and the main awareness of gender concern is the essential supplement and renewal of critical theory, along with the vigorous development of women's literature and criticism. Thinking of gender values and standards of criticism of its critical targets makes the research more specific in this particular field with more open and dynamic concept of development. Beyond universality of critics, we should consider constructing women's theory of literary criticism, which should be taken as the reality of theoretical development and variation from the beginning of critical theory to now. In conclusion, this paper not only presents the outlook of development trend of feminist literary criticism, but it also explains the significance of constructing it. The purpose of existence of women's culture and literature is not about deconstruction of male-centered culture, but because of the supplement and correction of loopholes and shortcomings of human culture and literature so as to continuously improve human culture itself. Construction of feminist literary criticism is not for women's literature or cultural deconstruction and subversion to gain hegemony of male-centered culture, but for the survival of women's literature and privileges for the present and strive to promote gender equality in the field of culture and literature as well as on the basis of differences, implementing the academic concept of harmony of both sex. When feminist literary criticism consciously breaks the limit of feminism, the development of women's literature can have vast territory and prospects; When both male and female writers and critics can fully understand the gender value and the gender differences and at the mean time make efforts to address them and go beyond its limitations, the development of human literature can really have more vast territory and prospects.