Women's Survival and Women's Cultural Poetics

Author: Wang Chunrong
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: The author's research subject—women's literature and literary criticism—reflects her deep-felt feminist consciousness in the determination of its categories. This perspective has endowed her entire work with a unique individuality. The book gathers the calls of women's literature and literary studies in 20th-century China, attempting to break the historical silence of women. At the same time, the author listens while writing, capturing the echoes of the era's heavy historical suppression of women. She uses the feminist consciousness derived from history and the times to interpret women's literary works from the May Fourth period to the present, savoring the courage and wisdom with which they break through patriarchal society. Through this gathering, listening, and interpretation, she seeks the "riddle of the Sphinx" for women and constructs her own survivalist feminist literary criticism system.