Women As The Other And Culture

Based on the black feminine principle literary criticism theory, the race theory and the cultural criticism theory, this paper study the works of the current black American female and Chinese female ,analyzing the relationship of the culture and feminine subject, culture and the sisters friendship, culture and the status approval, the sex and the cultural approval, trying to promulgate interactive relationship between women as the other and the culture, in order to discusse his survival strategy of women's culture.The chapter I introduces the writing survey of the woman as the other. In the American history of literature, the black feminine literature has become a stronger force in the American literature, expanding from silence to momentum. The black women's work theme is abundant with bright subjects, the intense sense of time and the modernity, expressing their thoughts on the racial destiny, the race status, against discriminate and the sex oppression. The Chinese-American feminine literature also moves from the edge toward the center, attacking the American literary arena. The former Chinese femininal literature displays mainly the discrimination and insult received in the US, later period the Chinese literature had profoundly demonstrated the Chinese woman's pains, confusions between the mainstream culture and mother culture, difficulties to constructure status.Through explaination Toni Morrison and the Lisi Wouk's works, the chapter II analyzes the relationship between the black culture and construction of the black feminine subject, influence from the black culture on the black sisters' friendship. The black female has three kind of attitudes to the culture: one is absent subject caused by the Caucasian culture, with the twisted minds; two is becoming the cultural orphan because of lost their cultural root; rooted in the black history culture, three is constructing black subject successfully, protecting the black cultural root, loves the black culture deeply. In the black traditional culture, the black women trust mutually, understand mutually, support mutually. When the black women depart from it, the sisters' friendship is injuried, the sisters' union is disintegrated, construction the sisters 'friendship needs the black woman persevere the black traditional culture.Taking Tan Enmei and Maxine Hong Kingston's work as example, the chapter III has promulgated the relationship between culture and the status construction. During the period of status construction, the Chinese female has experienced the process from eagerness American culture, rebellion parent culture to distribution two cultures, approval the parent culture gradually and intently.To solve these problems, the chapter IV has discussed other woman's cultural survival strategy. The inevitable trends are resolution cultural conflicts, downplays the cultural boundary, distribution different cultures, pursuit equal dialog and fusion among different cultures.