Modernistic Significance Of Body Writing

Body writing is, in the perspective of western feminism, not limited to the description of the female's physiological sense, but both the expression of feminism background and the revolution against the literature dominated by the male discourses. Body writing, as a distinct literary phenomenon, has been connected to the feminism writing to some extent. However, the orthodox critics regard this kind of non-mainstream phenomenon as carnal writing which is never subsumed in the incomparable divinity of the literature.Body carnalism in the consumptive society and development in feminism awareness represent, respectively, the modernism of society and culture. In the consumptive society the body is not only the product of social relationships, but also the center of consumptive relations. As a result, the consumptive politics became the final home to the body besides narratives of didacticism and reformation, in which the body was redirected and opened, and became a symbol.In the modern society, contrast with the combination of the male's gender, power and discourse, the female, who is repressed under the surface of history, has few words exclusive to herself except for her body. The embarrassment confronted to the female body is the most convergent refraction to the tragic fate of the female who can break through the ruling of male discourses only by fight for the rights of self-appeal and self-attention in the level of body writing, and this could bring the most lethal biff to the male-oriented culture. Meanwhile, once the body itself becomes a kind of power, carnal Utopia could distort or simplify the body in the same way. In a conclusion, it is the coexistence of soul and body that should become the most important self-esteem of the writer.