A Study Of China's Body Writing Since 1990s From The Perspective Of Consumption Culture

With the penetration of feminism,consumption culture and mass culture into Chinese literature market.The literary subject shifted from the previous grand narrative scene to the description of daily life,and for a time,texts center on body as resource material emerged on the literary consumption market.“Body writing” is a theoretical concept proposed by Hélène Cixous.After it was introduced to China in the 1990 s,its meaning has undergone tremendous changes,from the rebellious personal writing to writing for lust in the image era,and then symbolic physical revelry.“Body writing” has showed its distinct characteristics of personality during each period in the development of Chinese localization.This thesis mainly starts with the theory of consumption culture.By analyzing the phenomenon of “body writing” in China since the 1990 s,it looks into the different characteristics of “body writing” in China from the perspective of consumption culture,and explores the realistic reasons for its formation and the connotation of the spirit of the times,so as to explore the development and evolution of Chinese literary trend since the 1990 s.The thesis is divided into four chapters,a total of six parts plus the introduction and the summaryThe introduction part mainly introduces the origin and significance of the research,the research status,research methods and ideas.Chapter one,background introduction and theoretical origin: This part introduces the basic meaning of “body writing”,and hackles the theory of “body writing” in the West from Woolf to Cixous;at the same time,it introduces the basic meaning of consumption culture,and also combs the western consumption culture theory from Baudrillard to Featherstone.Chapter two,analyzes the reasons for the emergence of “body writing” in the1990 s in China from the perspective of consumption culture: that female body going from “shading” to “unmasking”,the great discussion of the ideological emancipationmovement and the humanistic spirit,and Western feminism,the spread of mass culture and consumption culture in China have laid the foundation for the development of “body writing” in China.Chapter three,the interrelation between “Body Writing” and consumption culture has prompted “body writing” to undergo three transformations with individual characteristics in the process of Chinese localization.The reflection arose from chapter four: The physiology and commerciality of“body writing” from the perspective of consumption culture pushes the literacy of literature to the edge.In the conclusion part,after the introduction of Cixous' s “body writing” into China,its concept has mutated in the process of localization.With the influence of the consumption culture wave,many problems have also appeared,which are also reflected in this thesis.