SECTION 3Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its cont

SECTION 3

Directions: Each passage in this group is followed by questions based on its content. After reading a passage, choose the best answer to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.

Feminist critics have often pondered whether a postmodern language may

be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and

some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely

negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that

(5) recognizes itself as historically situated, as motivated by values and, thus,

political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification.

The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have

been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously

reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and

(10) their culpability in her protagonists' predicaments, that unlike pure and

transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison

insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own

stories, quotidian as they may be, and while these will never offer the solace of

transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the

(15) world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other.

It can be inferred from the passage that the author views the justification through literature as a concept that

A．derives from a negative stance toward feminism

B．predates the birth of postmodernism as a literary movement

C．encourages writers to tell humdrum stories

D．limits the construction of morally complex characters

E．contributes to the politicization and historical orientation of texts