身体与女性文学

Body and Female Literature

身体作为一种文化符号,经历了漫长的发展演变过程,中国和西方都有着忽略身体、藐视身体的历史,在过去的文学写作中,身体一直处于不在场状态。如今,消费主义时代的来临,使身体成为大众关注的热点,涌现出了女性作家的"身体写作",陈染、林白为代表的第一代"身体写作"以激进的写作姿态对传统社会的男权中心进行了彻底的颠覆和反拨,而以卫慧、木子美等为代表的第二、三代"身体写作"由于其低俗的文化品位和商业目的,背离了反抗男权社会,张扬女性意识的初衷,最终走向文学的堕落。只有坚持身体灵与肉的统一,才能使文学回归其本质。

As a cultural symbol, body has undergone a long evolutionary process. Both China and the west have a history of ignoring and contempting body. In the past, body was always absent in literary writing. Today, with the coming of consumptivism, body has become a public focus and there emerged the first generation of ＂body writers＂ represented by Chen Ran and Lin Bai who, with their radical writing style, completely subverted the traditional male chauvinist society. However, the second generation of body writing, represented by Wei Hui and Mu Zimei, eventually became morally degenerated in literature because of their vulgar cultural tastes and commercial purposes and their deviation from the original intention of resisting male chauvinism and publicizing female consciousness. Only by sticking to the principle of uniting soul and flesh, can literature return to its cssence.