《红楼梦》与女性主义文学批评引论

《红楼梦》对女性的关注及其显著的“女儿化”特征,自然容易使人把它跟西方现当代的“女权主义”思想和“女性主义文学批评”理论联系起来,并从“女性主义文学批评”角度来考察曹雪芹的女性观。作为男性的曹雪芹无法完全摆脱传统文化中的男性中心意识,因此难免受到女性主义文学批评者的怀疑和批判,但曹雪芹确实在《红楼梦》中为女性说话,对“父权制”或“男性中心主义”进行批判。《红楼梦》中有关女性的话语具有“复合的双声性”。

Dream of the Red Chamber and Feminist Literary Criticism

Great attention to female characters and its remarkable "girly" characteristics in Dream of the Red Chamber arenaturally associated with western feminism and feminist literary criticism and theory, and Cao Xueqin's attitude towards femalesis examined by some contemporary critics. As a writer in that age, Cao Xueqin couldn't break away from the male centerconsciousness rooted in Chinese traditional culture, thus, he is criticized severely by contemporary feminist literary critics.However, if we examine the classical work thoroughly, we will find that Cao Xueqin did speak for his female characters andcriticized patriarchy and male center trend. In this way, the author thinks that there are double voices in the discourse of this novel.