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The Call From Women And Nature

Posted on:2012-01-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X Q DuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330338954086Subject:Literature and art
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Eco-feminism originated in the 60-70 years of the twentieth century and the eco-feminist literary criticism was developed in 90s in twentieth century. It was the first time to lauch literary criticism from the double vision:"ecological"and"female". In the unique view, women and nature which had been"marginalized"and"othering"from"absence"to"presence". Compared with redical feminist criticism and simply eco-criticism, eco-feminist literary criticism has great breakthrough and progress, and has shown a wide range of trends.Eco-feminist literary criticism directed at the"male centered"world view, exposed and criticized the dual oppression of women and nature. It explored the ecological value and aesthetic connotations of female natural writing, become a wonderful work of literary critics. As a new theory, its critical discourses are still in construction, eco-feminist literary criticism is still not very mature compared with the eco-feminist politics and philosophy. In recent years, domestic eco-feminist literary criticism reflected in the articles, Title of Paper and cultural projects, and the results of the research can not be ignored. But it still has many shortcomings and problems.This paper briefly discusses the study on the current situation of the domestic and international eco-feminist literary criticism from the core point of gender harmony.In the first chapter, feminist literary criticism on the ecological background and theory of soil were to be addressed, and the reason of the feminist literary criticism of ecological rise was to be discussed. From the view of women associated with nature, discusses the connotation of eco-feminist criticism from two aspects of patriarchy and traditional dualism of critical thinking. And the strategy of eco-feminist literary criticism was to be sorted out. In addition, we summarized the characteristics of eco-feminist literary criticism in three ways, highlight its unique critical theory from others. Described the rise and development of eco-feminist literary criticism in China, the central concern of the critics and the mistakes in the acceptance process was elaborated. Besides, we take the proposals in the lack of research. Last, we discussed the impact of eco-feminist literary criticism to domestic literary criticism. The purpose and significance of this paper is that: Eco-feminist criticism puts the literary criticism on the contexts of gender discrimination and the ecological crisis, reflects on environmental crisis and prospects for survival of the ultimate concern of all mankind from the ecological perspective and female perspective, to systematically study of the meaning, characteristics and the critical strategy on Eco-feminist literary criticism. It injects vitality of its extensive, open and cross-cutting for literary research. Besides, it provides a new critical perspective, enriched and developed the theory of literary criticism.
Keywords/Search Tags:Eco-feminism, Literary Criticism, Female, Nature, Harmony
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