A Study Of Margaret Atwood's Novels From The Perspective Of Post-Feminism

Margaret Atwood is a famous Canadian female writer in the international literary world.She has always taken the female consciousness and the female self-survival experience and perception covered and concealed by the patriarchal culture as the core theme of her writing.His writing career coincides with the transition from a modern society with freedom and equality as its main body to a post-modern society with differences and harmony as its main axis.Influenced by this realistic context,Atwood is defined as a post-modern knowledge-based writer.Therefore,the depiction and expectation of women's survival dilemma and the coexistence of the two sexes in her works go beyond the single gender category and the grand concepts and empty words of traditional feminist theories,thus showing the post-feminist characteristics of complexity,openness and tolerance of women's self-construction and independent survival.This article is based on the post-feminists such as Judith Butler and Irigaray and their representative theories,and integrates the relevant ideas of post-modernist thinkers such as Foucault,Lacan and Susan Bordeaux on the interpretation of gender issues.It explores the multiple strategies of post-feminism shown in Atwood's five post-modernist narrative works,namely,The Story of the Maid,Edible Woman,Alias Grace,Ms.Oracle and Moral Dilemma.This article consists of three chapters.The first chapter reviews the historical development and theoretical orientation of feminism,clarifies the theoretical background and characteristics of the post-feminism theory,and evaluates the applicability and maturity of the post-feminism theory as a text of gender poetics interpretation.The second chapter is based on the criticism of traditional feminism,that is,the later modern spirit challenges the one-dimensional interpretation and homogeneous understanding of traditional feminism theory on issues such as the universal concept of women,equality between men and women,gender opposition,gender temperament,etc.The third chapter discusses the transcendence of post-feminism over traditional feminism,that is,women's self-exploration,identity breakthrough and discourse construction are included in the multi-interwoven and multi-dimensional theoretical framework of post-feminism,including body politics,women's subjectivity,discourse power,reconstruction of mother's image,and women's pedigree.Atwood's writing on women's survival is divorced from the single binary dichotomy of male and female and the extreme gender political standpoint.She regards women's issue as an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary cultural concept and carries out subtle theoretical speculation.Women's freedom and integrity of self-expression in the post-modern era,the generation and persistence of women's subjective consciousness and the road to redemption of their own souls are watched and cared for with a more diversified standpoint,a novel angle and an inclusive mentality.After the thesis,feminism is the research perspective and goes deep into post-modern ideology and culture,trying to enrich the diversity of previous Atwood works,expand the research scope of feminist literary criticism,and try to provide a new academic perspective for Atwood works research beyond the gender research perspective.