Écriture Feminine and Its Effects on Literature Reading

Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v5i4.2682

Zhengyan Deng

School of Foreign Languages, Guangzhou College of Applied Science and Technology, Zhaoqing 526072, Guangdong, China

Abstract

The article will briefly introduce the beginning and chronological development of feminist criticism and two forms of it — Anglo-American feminism and French feminism. Then a notion, écriture feminine, brought up by Hélène Cixous will be demonstrated and analyzed how it undermines binary oppositions, with a textual example of “The Werewolf”. “Other bisexuality” from Cixous will also be discussed. In the end, there will be some discussion of the defective issues of écriture feminine.

Keywords

Écriture feminine, Hélène Cixous, feminist criticism

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