关键词: 魔幻现实主义, 女性主义, 超自然, 颠覆语言

Abstract: The link between magic realism and feminism is significant. Many female writers are essential in the construction of this genre. Firstly, female writers use magic realism to reveal a common socio-political struggle in the field of language itself. Under patriarchal culture and its discourse, women are not the subject of language. They use magic realist vocabularies to subvert language and social norms, to gain a voice. Secondly, supernatural descriptions help the writers to travel beyond the boundaries of the oppressive language, using symbol and metaphor to express deep collective emotional experience of the deprived, such as the black race and women. Through the analysis many a female magic realist works from different countries and nationalities, such as Morrison's Beloved, Chi Zijian's The Top of Mountains, and the works of some American Chinese female authors, this article reveals the rooted reasons for female writers' construction of magic realism and how the supernatural functions in their works, to manifest their significant contributions in this genre.

Key words: magic realism, feminism, supernatural, subversion of language