The "absence" Of Women In Jean Genet's Early Autobiographical Novels

The earlier autobiographical novels written by Jean Genet,such as Flowers of Notre Dame,Miracle Rose and The Thief Diary,which constructed the male utopia that excluded female characters and presented the absence of women.However,both the male characters and the narrator "I" in the novel have strong womanly characteristics,and the womanly symbols that can be seen everywhere in the novel manifest the presence of women,the existence mode of "hidden" and "visible" in women has triggered a huge controversy in academic circles about the attitude of the women of Jean Genet,therefore,it is necessary to examine the only female characters in novels that appear in fragmentary ways.These female characters include a guilty mother and a betrayed lover as well as "absent" wife and the nuns,they all existing in the text in a way that dispels womanly characteristics,they are not only lacking in womanliness,but also constantly eliminating its inherent social role.Jean Genet separated the female characters from the womanly characteristics,and gave the womanly characteristics to male characters,which eliminates the inherent connection between biological six and social gender,and presents the author's reconstruction of gender identity.Based on this,Jean Genet rebelled against the gender hierarchy with the inherent male and female binary opposition.Not only that,Jean Genet inserted directly stigmatizing,negative misogynistic expressions and homophobic vocabulary in the elegant French language,which caused the misplaced signifier and signified in linguistics as well as created the textual space of "differance" in meaning.As a whole,Jean Genet's reconstruction of gender identity and the "differance" of linguistic meaning is the philosophical practice of breaking through the thinking mode of binary opposition that has been regard as the basis of the philosophical foundation of essentialism.