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題 名 | "The Moral Fuzziness of the English Was Meteorologically Induced": De-Fetishization of Difference in Salman Rushdie |
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作 者 | Chen,Chun-yen; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 35:3/4 民94.春-夏 |
頁 次 | 頁1-26 |
分類號 | 873.51 |
關鍵詞 | Difference; Postcoloniality; Salman Rushdie; Overdetermination midnights' children; The satanic verses; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | This paper seeks to intervene in current postcolonial theory by contesting the primacy of the idiom of difference in postcolonial inquiries. I propose that, in both The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, Rushdie demonstrates how postcoloniality is first and foremost an overdetermined inscription-that is, postcoloniality names a condition wherein the postcolonial subject has to stumble through proliferated national, cultural, and linguistic metaphors, with the putative “national allegory” being the ultimate articulation of such metaphoricity. This motif is forcefully figured in Rushdie's novels by a haunting sameness in or of the materiality of the text and in the constant interruption of the ethos of difference. |
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