On The Narration Of Feminine Identity In Chinese Feminine Narrative Texts Since The 1980's

Starting from the perspective of genders and utilizing the approach of feminist criticism, this paper tries to neaten all kinds of conditions of the females' rebellion against the tradition in their narrative texts since 1980's, and at the same time it also tries to explore the ideal and its possibility of female's identity.Firstly, since the history has put the female in the position of "Second gender", they want to break through such a siege once the right of discourse is provided by the new age. They want to overstep the barriers set by history, and contradict the ancient myth of genders from their identity of mother, wife and daughter. More than that, they want to deconstruct wifehood and rewrite motherhood and encourage the once-obedient daughter wield the great flag of patricide, displaying their overcorrection and collective deconstruction of their traditional identity after their individual consciousness wakes up. Secondly, indulging in physical pleasure of their feminine bodies, they are inclined in sexual revel, or narcissism, or self-consoling, excluding emotion for desire; all these are their discourse strategies for establishing their dominant position in the patriarchy context. Thirdly, building so-called "Arc of Sister" and being trapped in the complex of Lesbianism, they cast their eyes only on their own sex, and some of them degenerate as "Cools", which is their effort to break away from patriarchy culture completely and constitute or widen feminine cultural space. Lastly, it is a tentative construction of ideal females. Nowadays, the whoop for "being a woman" is no longer heard, and what is heard is "being a person", with a purpose to blur the line between genders for being a person transcending genders; this is feminism's new recognition toward the nature of females and its ideal location of females' identity in the future.This paper explores females' predicament through their feminine texts of pluralistic discourse. Following issues are to be discussed: females' oppugning the myth of love, alienating traditional families; overthrowing maternity, succumbing before desires, inclining to Lesbianism, trying to establish a kind of harmonious poetical ideal suiting both genders. However, females' dissatisfaction toward their established identity and their ideal, and perplexity for their unknown identity are seen among all these subversions and constructions, and all which indicate that females' identity is still blurred and shapeless in the present historical context.