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An Analysis of Black Feminist Criticism 　　Abstract：This article，with the analysis of the feminist criticism theory，mainly centers on the problems of black women’s self-consciousness and self-identity， and explores the black women’s double-consciousness of being caught in a double-oppression dilemma. 　　Key Words： black feminism； double oppression； self-consciousness 　　As a branch of western feminist criticism， black feminist criticism arises with the emergence of Black Women’s Movement in the 1970s in the United States. Black feminist critics analyze the works of black woman writers from a feminist or political perspective， which is seen as a way of reading inscriptions of race， class and gender in modes of cultural expression. 　　Feminist criticism is a kind of literary criticism that deals with female characters， women’s issues and the female roles in stories， novels or plays. Feminist literary criticism is the literary criticism formed by feminist theories. The history of feminist criticism has been varied and broad， from classic works of nineteenth-century women authors such as George Eliot to theoretical work in women’s and gender studies by “third-wave” feminism authors. In the broad sense， feminist literary criticism before the nineteen seventeenth—the first and second waves of feminism—was concerned with the representation of women’s condition within literature and the politics of women’s authorship， which includes the description of fictional female characters. At that time， feminist criticism was further concerned with the exclusion of women from the literary field. Lisa Tuttle has defined feminist theory as something like “new questions of old texts”. Lisa Tuttle defines the goals of feminist criticism as： “To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing， to interpret symbolism of women’s writing so that it will not be lost or ignored by the male point of view， to rediscover old texts， to analyze women writers and their writings from a female persp