An Interpretation on Joan Douglas Peters's Feminist Narratology
Feminist narratology is originated from Lanser's narrative voice mode and enriched with such female techniques of narrative intervention and ambiguous discourse as formulated by Warhol and Mezei respectively.Page's linguistic approach to feminist narratology serves as a conducive theoretical extension.Breaking the sexual confinement of texts,Peters supplements male texts into the research realm of feminist narratology.Her central idea on feminist narratology is embodied in the following three aspects.Firstly,the female narrative discourse forms a discursive gender rhetorics with the male one,which further constructs the textual dynamics in the dialogic opposition.Secondly,unlike the conventional definition of female narrative as the voice produced by female narrator,Peters defines it as the discourse system challenging the phallocentric narrative mode.Thirdly,she originates female narrative from the generic emergence of novel instead of a creation of a postmodemist genre.Based on the concept of feminist metafiction,Peters interprets the evolution of female narrative in various stages of literary development,which demonstrates the process from implicitness to explicitness by means of parodies.In short,Peters has made significant contribution to the development of feminist narratology in terms of theoretical expansion,methodological creation and perspective renewal,which shifts the critical focus from sexual politics to a more objective and comprehensive vision.
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