Abstract:
We could see today’s body-writing trend in Chinese literature as a
kind of rebirth of old myths about human body. The mythical imagination of
our ancestors was closely related with their body vision. For instance,
the flood myth is derived from the biological impulse of excrete in
terms of psychoanalysis perspective. In the so called World-parent type of
creation myth, the world and all things are the production of male and
female genitals at the beginning. So even the cosmos could be bodynized
in mythic narrative and the human body also could be seen as a micro-
cosmos. In the time of modernity, our body get both advantage and
disadvantage from modernity. Our body could live longer than our ancestor,
but it must be faced with a serious crisis, such as SARS,AIDS, and the
body-bomb.
Key words:body-writing,body-bomb, myths about human body,modern body