Liang, Jane Weijen. "The Feminist Creativity in Process-Process Philosophy, Tao Te Ching, and Postcolonial Feminism in Dialogue."[Conference paper presented at International Conference on Creativity and Process: East-West Dialogue] Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan. 2007.
Abstract
A distinct significance of Process philsophy is
its concern about the feminity in the divinity, which is manifested in
John Cobb and David Griffin's works. Process feminist scholars
contribute further in the articulation of feminist creativity,
especially Catherine Keller's Face of the Deep and her recent dialogue
with Taosim and postcolonial feminism. The primordial and
consequent natures of Process divinity could be viewed as parallel to
the Ying-Yang of Taoism. The interaction of male and female
elements, the proactive and receptive dimensions, in the creative
process is emphasized both in Taoism and Process philosophy.
However, this interaction between two opposites should not be viewed as
static binary oppositions, but the postcolonial feminist
in-between-ness in the creative process of becoming. In the
mutuality of the postcolonial process and through the mimicry with
which the colonized imitates the colonizer and through permeation the
colonizer also absorbs from the colonized, the identity forms of
dynamically in the fluidity and hybridity of feminist creativity, a
mulitiple creative synthesis attains as "many become one" (Whitehead),
or better described as many become "many-one," which is suggested by
Process feminism with its creative dialogue with Taoism and
postcolonial theory.