African Fiction and Joseph Conrad

作者:Caminero-Santangelo, Byron

页数:192

出版时间:2004-12

价格:$ 67.24

isbn号码:9780791462614

图书标签:非洲文学ofJosephHeartDarknessConrad

By exploring the relationships between African novels and Joseph Conrad's fiction, this book examines the many discontinuous functions postcolonial revisions of "the canon" can serve. While contemporary literary studies too often represent such revisions merely as a means for postcolonial writers to challenge a colonial worldview, Caminero-Santangelo explores how African authors engage with a wide range of historically specific ideologies generated by particular histories of national independence and the development of postcolonial nations. The shift in focus away from a single colonial moment enables Caminero-Santangelo to detect a complex interweaving of convergence and divergence between Conrad and African writers such as Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer, Tayeb Salih, and Ama Ata Aidoo, who use Conradian intertexts to intervene in repressive situations in late-twentieth-century Africa. By emphasizing the need to contextualize acts of writing and rewriting in precise historical terms, the author points to the limitations--even the dangers--of the standard cultural binary (Western-colonial/African-postcolonial) and the static dialectic of colonial domination and postcolonial resistance embraced by much recent cultural criticism.

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其实自己不是很喜欢比较文学的，don't get me wrong，有些比较文学的的确确将事物放在一起审视很有意思，但这本讲非洲和后殖民主义文学的感觉把很多东西生硬地拉在一起不免有些牵强….

其实自己不是很喜欢比较文学的，don't get me wrong，有些比较文学的的确确将事物放在一起审视很有意思，但这本讲非洲和后殖民主义文学的感觉把很多东西生硬地拉在一起不免有些牵强….