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The Deconstructive Tradition Of Feminism Criticism

Posted on:2006-09-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M R FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360152995933Subject:Literature and art
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The thesis attempts to probe into the deconstructive origin of Feminism Criticism thoroughly, through an analysis of a series of deconstruction occurrence of its inside, pursue its innate deconstructive tradition, and investigate the identity crisis that deconstruction causes. As the existence of a kind of heterogeneity, female consciousness has being inextricably linked with male discourse all the time in Feminism Criticism. If women speak, they'll set in a bottomless pit of male discourse; if women don't speak, they'll face the danger of the marginalisation. So, I will have to discuss the deconstructive tradition of Feminism Criticism at the risk of the division of the identity, and even the danger of falling into the paradox.Feminism Criticism was just about contemporary with Deconstructism in Post-modern, which is accidental in the time and inevitable in the history. As a kind of criticism method, Deconstructism Criticism and Feminism Criticism rely on each other and employ each other as tactics. Feminism Criticism is subject to the influence of Deconstructism, and keeps continual and disunited relationship with it. Compare with absolute logic reasoning of Deconstructism, it much more pays attention to discourse and text in ideology domain, and directly point to history, life and practice, so it 's critically and revolutionary. In the principal part of the thesis, the author draws on some tactics of Deconstructism Criticism, and analyzes the deconstruction of Feminism Criticism. As a host and a parasite, Feminism Criticism dives into male discourse so that it can set a trap for the power of the Father and make it void. Male text oneself has already included inconsistency, repeat, transferred meaning, ruptures and uncertainty, which hold forth the chance for internal reading. Beginning from internal reading, Feminism Criticism is on imitating, peculating, grafting and inverting male text by some parasitic thing, and even has absorbed some patriarchal quintessence. After internal reading, Feminism Criticism looks on discourse as all kinds of things coalesced and inserted, and explores the probability that male discourse expresses new meaning in the new context. It tries to transplant immaculate discourse into male text. Feminism Criticism doesn't give up absorbing and rebuilding patriarchy theory, and there are some successful grafted texts in French Feminism Criticism. As far as the procedures concerned, graft involves several steps of labeling, repeating, rewriting, transplanting, inverting etc. They often intertwine each other in a common system. As a host,Feminism Crificism has to be up against the fracture of its layer in the process of never-ending transformation. Since the 1970s, Feminism Criticism begins to pay attention to the literature of colored people, the Third World and homosexuality, which put on manifold feature. Feminism Criticism in the margin has been aware of its margin, and the Third World Feminism and Lesbian Feminism have been embodied in it during de-unification. Feminism Criticism breaks through the verge of the center and the margin in constant criticism and self-criticism, amelioration and self-melioration, transcendence and self-transcendence. The breakthrough is not only between all kinds of genres and views, but also between critics.Every Feminism critic will meet the identity question. To some extent, Feminism Criticism is a kind of identity Criticism. The encounter of Feminism Criticism and Deconstructism Criticism brought out the identity crisis of the subject of criticism directly. The New Geographies of Identity has seemed to obviously overcome the limitation states of the identity and subject, but different voice is often contradictory each other, and their multiple identity dilutes their collectivity identity. Feminism Criticism is not a kind of isolated text criticizing, but merges in the whole the feminist movement. When Feminism critics already realized their own identity and limit of identity, they are destined to bear the crisis of deconstruction forever.
Keywords/Search Tags:Feminism, Most-modernism, Androcentrism, Deconstruction, Identity
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