Retreat From Race, Class And Gender Prejudice

The issues of female literature are women writers, women's consciousness, women's themes and women's style. Some critics point out, the fundamental meaning of female literature exists or lies in the meditation and the grasp of women's consciousness. Once women's consciousness vanishes, female literature will no longer arouse those critics' concern. Regarding women's consciousness as realizing the existence of female, researching female problems or depicting female themes. However, works such as Plato, "the Bible", Nietzsche, and other countless similar cases have existed since the ancient times. The ideological history of women's research has been one part of the development of human ideological history. This is obviously not the women's .consciousness, that female literature refers to. Viewed from the sense of female literature, women's consciousness means the female taken as the subject of creation, observes and contemplates the female as the abject of creation from the aspect of history and culture in order to seek the way that women gain freedom and. emancipation and the future when women will be rescued as well as men. It is no doubt that woman's physical characteristics determine the ways they observe the world and analyze things. This kind of characteristics decide the subject matter she is concerned with in creation and the style adopted. At the same time, women's particular way of feeling bring up their particular way of expression. Therefore, it cultivates distinctive women's literature and expression. It is called feminist literature. Judging by the following significance black American women's literature is most close to the locus of the development of western women's literature.In the early 20th century, black American women's literature made an indelible contribution to the development of American literature. Black literature has become an indispensable part of American literature and American culture. Black writers include various genres and their works almost turn out to be popular in every field of American literature. Although black women's literature lagged behind, this new generation surpassed the old and grew quite well. At the end of 20th century, the black female writer Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize (in 1993) and from then on, black literature strode forward toward the main trend of American literature.The essence of the early female literature research was based on sex and gender issues. The works emphasized class, nationality and clique. The key definition of women literature research is being transferred quietly and unnoticed to focus on gender. Some frequently used words like "sex", "gender consciousness", "female position", "female point of view" have begun appearing in some works discussing female literature. They're used together with such terms as "female consciousness", "female stand", "female point of view" and so on. And seemingly tend to take the place of the initial word "female". This quiet change responds to that of the Western feminist as well.Gender in female society is molded by environments, in other words, by social factors and themselves. It is certain that being born a female should be regarded as the premise for molding gender. Originally, these two were closely connected entities. However, they were isolated consciously or unconsciously by some scholars studying female literature. Some even hold the opinion that social gender has nothing to do with naturally being bom a female from the point of view of physiology. Humanbeings can be taken as man from both the aspects of biology and society, history and culture, who is an integrated and versatile entirety. There are both distinction and connection between natural gender and social gender. Some western scholars studying female literature emphasize social gender at the basis of ignoring natural gender. This phenomenon, in my opinion, is not due to little notice of common sense, but because of feelings against traditional psychology which formed in patriarchal culture when women were defined merely by sex fro...