Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story“Everyday Use”takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of“a quilt”as the main line and creates thr...Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story“Everyday Use”takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of“a quilt”as the main line and creates three black women characters with bright personality.This paper will focus on the living conditions and spiritual world of black women,and reflects the anxiety of black women on ethnic cultural heritage within the white world and reveals the suppression of the strong culture to the weak culture,and the self-preservation of the weak culture from the perspective of post-colonialism.展开更多
The Last of the Mohicans is one of the five frontier novels written by famous American novelist James Fenimore Cooper in the early 19thcentury.Although it has been criticized for its narrative flaws,its length and for...The Last of the Mohicans is one of the five frontier novels written by famous American novelist James Fenimore Cooper in the early 19thcentury.Although it has been criticized for its narrative flaws,its length and formal prose style,it was one of the most popular in its time and is of a high literary value nowadays.With the coming of the white European colonialists,the Indians underwent various changes.Some Indians submitted themselves to the white while some Indians rebelled against the invaders and sought their revenge.With a post-colonial approach,the changes of the Indians will be better understood,and people nowadays will also have a better understanding of the Indian history and culture in early American history.展开更多
The Italian film The Last Emperor has strong color of post-colonialism,therefore,my paper will analyze the film from the perspective of post-colonialism.The two important terms in post-colonialism theory closely relat...The Italian film The Last Emperor has strong color of post-colonialism,therefore,my paper will analyze the film from the perspective of post-colonialism.The two important terms in post-colonialism theory closely related to the film are "Orientalism",and "the other".My paper focus on analyzing the China's image in European films from the angles of "Oriental ism" and "the other".My paper reveals that the China's image in European films can't break away from Orientalism,and the western world describe the oriental world according to its own imagination and think itself as a savior to the oriental world.Therefore,what we Chinese should do is being initiative to describe ourselves to shape a new image of real China.展开更多
The African-American novel Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison is about the miserable suffering of black people in the white society.The black people were invisible in the white world.This thesis analyzes this nove...The African-American novel Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison is about the miserable suffering of black people in the white society.The black people were invisible in the white world.This thesis analyzes this novel from post-colonialism perspective to discuss the process of looking for the racial identity of the protagonist.展开更多
The Loons is one of the famous short stories of Canadian female writer Margaret Lawrence. In this story, the authorportrays an Indian woman—Piquette, who is a tragic figure and lives as a marginalized group. This art...The Loons is one of the famous short stories of Canadian female writer Margaret Lawrence. In this story, the authorportrays an Indian woman—Piquette, who is a tragic figure and lives as a marginalized group. This article willanalyze Piquette in The Loons from the perspective of Spivak’s Post-colonialism, revealing the fate of colonialwomen under the imperialist and patriarchal discourse and deepen the reader’s understanding of this work.展开更多
Peter Carey is“one of the most original and talented writers”of New Writing in Australia.Oscar and Lucinda is one of his novels,which sets in 19th century Britain and Australia and tells the bizarre,pure love story ...Peter Carey is“one of the most original and talented writers”of New Writing in Australia.Oscar and Lucinda is one of his novels,which sets in 19th century Britain and Australia and tells the bizarre,pure love story between these two persons.However,it is also interspersed with numerous depictions of Christianity,Australian aboriginal culture,and British colonial invasion.Therefore,many critics and even Peter Carey himself see it as an exploration and reflection on colonialism and Australia’s national cultural identity.Aiming at the colonial elements in the novel,this paper will proceed from the post-colonial theory,through the analysis of the hybridity of the protagonist’s identities and the inner themes of the novel,to explore the characters’confusion about identity under the colonial era,and the cruel colonial reality hidden under the Christian civilization.展开更多
Mistranslation has always been received with negative reactions among the translation community for a long time.Post-colonial translation theory forms an intersection with translatology and brings translation studies ...Mistranslation has always been received with negative reactions among the translation community for a long time.Post-colonial translation theory forms an intersection with translatology and brings translation studies from linguistics to the hidden factors such as politics,cultures and aesthetics that influence the formation of translations.From the perspective of post-colonial translation theory,this article makes comparisons with intentional mistranslation among the two English versions of Shuo Ren,and analyzes the causes that affect the intentional mistranslation of different translators.In conclusion,translators in strong cultures may misuse intentional mistranslation to“dump”their own culture,political views,or religious beliefs,so as to promote cultural aggression against the colonized or former colonial countries.In addition,domestic translators should adopt appropriate intentional mistranslation to ensure more acceptance and spreading of Chinese culture in the world.展开更多
Post-colonialist criticism can be traced in many works of the famous British female writer Doris Lessing."The Black Madonna"is one of them. This essay, through the analysis of metaphor, contrast and symbolis...Post-colonialist criticism can be traced in many works of the famous British female writer Doris Lessing."The Black Madonna"is one of them. This essay, through the analysis of metaphor, contrast and symbolism used in the novel, is an attempt to reveal its post-colonialist theme from the perspective of writing techniques. It also aims to lead people to ponder on the hidden theme of the novel—humanity.展开更多
The movie Slumdog Millionaire is the biggest winner and the hottest topic in the movie field in 2009.The focus on this movieshould not only include the performance of the actors, the attractive plot, but also the inte...The movie Slumdog Millionaire is the biggest winner and the hottest topic in the movie field in 2009.The focus on this movieshould not only include the performance of the actors, the attractive plot, but also the intention and the deep meaning of it. This essay willinterpret the movie from the post-colonial perspective, from three angles of the beautification of the West, the exposure of the Indian social problems and language, to prove the rationality of the saying "poverty porn".展开更多
The enlightened person of The May Fourth Movement are not properly regarded Chinese culture and Western culture as the source of China’s backwardness from the angle of post-colonial theory.This thesis will analyse th...The enlightened person of The May Fourth Movement are not properly regarded Chinese culture and Western culture as the source of China’s backwardness from the angle of post-colonial theory.This thesis will analyse the cause and effect of post-colonial translation theory.Through full and accurate material analysis,this finding will give implication to the future translation of Chinese classics.展开更多
The short novel The Outstation written by William Somerset Maugham was created in 1931. The story revolves around theconflict between two Englishmen in a foreign country. The paper will analyze it by using Edward Said...The short novel The Outstation written by William Somerset Maugham was created in 1931. The story revolves around theconflict between two Englishmen in a foreign country. The paper will analyze it by using Edward Said's Post-colonialism theoryand reveals the underlying Oriental colonial thought.展开更多
As a work representing part and parcel of Kazuo Ishiguro’s literary creation and underpinning his literary reputation,The Remains of the Day is a full-length novel told by first-person narratives,numerous segments in...As a work representing part and parcel of Kazuo Ishiguro’s literary creation and underpinning his literary reputation,The Remains of the Day is a full-length novel told by first-person narratives,numerous segments in which are proved to entail post-colonial implications.Mr.Stevens’struggling process of mistreating himself in an inhuman,banal,and restrained manner and later painfully reconstructing his identity is unequivocally revealed.That would conspicuously serves as an epitome of post-war Britain:people were getting lost in their formerly-constructed cultural identity.Facing swiftly-changing milieu in Britain,people may not enable themselves to transform their cognition,self-esteem,pride or even prejudice in a fast speed as the international sit⁃uation may do so.展开更多
Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary American writers in America.Her first Novel Love Medicine won most prizes in American literature history.Most researches in America and China on the novel from ...Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary American writers in America.Her first Novel Love Medicine won most prizes in American literature history.Most researches in America and China on the novel from the perspectives of feminism,post- colonialism,ecocriticism.The themes in the novel such as love,home- coming,identity construction have also been discussed.展开更多
When it comes to the postcolonial translation studies,the studies of translation and empire is an indispensible link not only because of translation as a kind of tool in imperialism's conquer and occupation but al...When it comes to the postcolonial translation studies,the studies of translation and empire is an indispensible link not only because of translation as a kind of tool in imperialism's conquer and occupation but alsobecause it mainly depends on anthropology,sociolo gy,gender studies,ethnic studies,literary criticism,history,psychoanalysis and political science and philosophy.This thesis mainly from people's psychological influence made by colonization explores how this kind of psychological influence functions in translation.展开更多
What has really happened in Europe since 2014?Why in 2018 are so many migrants still making their way towards Europe?For the first time since the Second World War,an important number of individuals have entered into E...What has really happened in Europe since 2014?Why in 2018 are so many migrants still making their way towards Europe?For the first time since the Second World War,an important number of individuals have entered into European soil.The idea for this article goes back to October 2015 when the prefet from the town where I live went in search of asylum seekers.This is what sparked off my inquiry amongst about 50 exiles housed in the annex of the Montmorency(95)hospital in July 2015.But against popular belief,migrants are not accepted fairly into countries,and the geographical distribution of Syrians in Turkey,Lebanon,Jordan,and Europe is contrary to what Kant had defended as a“right to visit”.Although the majority of researchers suggest welcoming migrants,it is necessary to reconsider some methodological and epistemological aspects and get away from some wrongly perceived concepts which dated prior to the year 2000.Yet,the Arab Spring has showed that we are dealing with unfinished post-colonialism,something that we will soon come back to in another article where we will propose another solution.展开更多
In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the issue of cultural identity and shows her thoughtful understanding of the minority's cultural identity. With a series of analysis and elaborations about The Joy Luck Club ...In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the issue of cultural identity and shows her thoughtful understanding of the minority's cultural identity. With a series of analysis and elaborations about The Joy Luck Club based upon post-colonial theories,the author of this thesis holds that: in Amy Tan's opinion, the ethnic cultural identities should not be fixed, single but negotiable and hybrid. Amy Tan's exploration of the ethnic cultural identity can provide some positive enlightenment for those minorities who are still confused about their cultural identities.展开更多
The autobiographic novel, A Many-Splendoured Thing, is Han Suyin's famous work. It has moved hundreds of millions ofreaders and audiences with its beautiful love story. By using post-colonial views on identity to ...The autobiographic novel, A Many-Splendoured Thing, is Han Suyin's famous work. It has moved hundreds of millions ofreaders and audiences with its beautiful love story. By using post-colonial views on identity to analyze the identity crisis of three fe-males, traces three females' two ways to find and reconstruct themselves. The author recognizes Han's concerns over the topic ofidentity in A Many-Splendoured Thing. The characters' identity crisis exemplifies the identity problems of all Eurasians' struggleand choices in 1940's in Hong Kong society.展开更多
This essay examines Raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country,the first novel of his ambitious"Welsh Trilogy."The aim of the essay is twofold.Firstly,it analyzes the unsettling issue of ho...This essay examines Raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country,the first novel of his ambitious"Welsh Trilogy."The aim of the essay is twofold.Firstly,it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place(native place)shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision.Secondly,the essay calls this trope of internalizing"border-crossing"into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams's identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.展开更多
本文根据该著作章节概述Lonán óBriain1《少数民族音乐:越南北部苗族的声音》(Musical Minorities:The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam)—书的主要内容。除此之外评论家试图展示书中的具体问题、有趣的新奇...本文根据该著作章节概述Lonán óBriain1《少数民族音乐:越南北部苗族的声音》(Musical Minorities:The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam)—书的主要内容。除此之外评论家试图展示书中的具体问题、有趣的新奇事物和有争议的事实,以便给出一个良好的、恰当的评价。展开更多
文摘Alice Walker is a famous African-American female author whose short story“Everyday Use”takes the conflict between a mother and her two daughters over the final ownership of“a quilt”as the main line and creates three black women characters with bright personality.This paper will focus on the living conditions and spiritual world of black women,and reflects the anxiety of black women on ethnic cultural heritage within the white world and reveals the suppression of the strong culture to the weak culture,and the self-preservation of the weak culture from the perspective of post-colonialism.
文摘The Last of the Mohicans is one of the five frontier novels written by famous American novelist James Fenimore Cooper in the early 19thcentury.Although it has been criticized for its narrative flaws,its length and formal prose style,it was one of the most popular in its time and is of a high literary value nowadays.With the coming of the white European colonialists,the Indians underwent various changes.Some Indians submitted themselves to the white while some Indians rebelled against the invaders and sought their revenge.With a post-colonial approach,the changes of the Indians will be better understood,and people nowadays will also have a better understanding of the Indian history and culture in early American history.
文摘The Italian film The Last Emperor has strong color of post-colonialism,therefore,my paper will analyze the film from the perspective of post-colonialism.The two important terms in post-colonialism theory closely related to the film are "Orientalism",and "the other".My paper focus on analyzing the China's image in European films from the angles of "Oriental ism" and "the other".My paper reveals that the China's image in European films can't break away from Orientalism,and the western world describe the oriental world according to its own imagination and think itself as a savior to the oriental world.Therefore,what we Chinese should do is being initiative to describe ourselves to shape a new image of real China.
文摘The African-American novel Invisible Man written by Ralph Ellison is about the miserable suffering of black people in the white society.The black people were invisible in the white world.This thesis analyzes this novel from post-colonialism perspective to discuss the process of looking for the racial identity of the protagonist.
文摘The Loons is one of the famous short stories of Canadian female writer Margaret Lawrence. In this story, the authorportrays an Indian woman—Piquette, who is a tragic figure and lives as a marginalized group. This article willanalyze Piquette in The Loons from the perspective of Spivak’s Post-colonialism, revealing the fate of colonialwomen under the imperialist and patriarchal discourse and deepen the reader’s understanding of this work.
文摘Peter Carey is“one of the most original and talented writers”of New Writing in Australia.Oscar and Lucinda is one of his novels,which sets in 19th century Britain and Australia and tells the bizarre,pure love story between these two persons.However,it is also interspersed with numerous depictions of Christianity,Australian aboriginal culture,and British colonial invasion.Therefore,many critics and even Peter Carey himself see it as an exploration and reflection on colonialism and Australia’s national cultural identity.Aiming at the colonial elements in the novel,this paper will proceed from the post-colonial theory,through the analysis of the hybridity of the protagonist’s identities and the inner themes of the novel,to explore the characters’confusion about identity under the colonial era,and the cruel colonial reality hidden under the Christian civilization.
基金This study is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(WUT:225217003).
文摘Mistranslation has always been received with negative reactions among the translation community for a long time.Post-colonial translation theory forms an intersection with translatology and brings translation studies from linguistics to the hidden factors such as politics,cultures and aesthetics that influence the formation of translations.From the perspective of post-colonial translation theory,this article makes comparisons with intentional mistranslation among the two English versions of Shuo Ren,and analyzes the causes that affect the intentional mistranslation of different translators.In conclusion,translators in strong cultures may misuse intentional mistranslation to“dump”their own culture,political views,or religious beliefs,so as to promote cultural aggression against the colonized or former colonial countries.In addition,domestic translators should adopt appropriate intentional mistranslation to ensure more acceptance and spreading of Chinese culture in the world.
文摘Post-colonialist criticism can be traced in many works of the famous British female writer Doris Lessing."The Black Madonna"is one of them. This essay, through the analysis of metaphor, contrast and symbolism used in the novel, is an attempt to reveal its post-colonialist theme from the perspective of writing techniques. It also aims to lead people to ponder on the hidden theme of the novel—humanity.
文摘The movie Slumdog Millionaire is the biggest winner and the hottest topic in the movie field in 2009.The focus on this movieshould not only include the performance of the actors, the attractive plot, but also the intention and the deep meaning of it. This essay willinterpret the movie from the post-colonial perspective, from three angles of the beautification of the West, the exposure of the Indian social problems and language, to prove the rationality of the saying "poverty porn".
文摘The enlightened person of The May Fourth Movement are not properly regarded Chinese culture and Western culture as the source of China’s backwardness from the angle of post-colonial theory.This thesis will analyse the cause and effect of post-colonial translation theory.Through full and accurate material analysis,this finding will give implication to the future translation of Chinese classics.
文摘The short novel The Outstation written by William Somerset Maugham was created in 1931. The story revolves around theconflict between two Englishmen in a foreign country. The paper will analyze it by using Edward Said's Post-colonialism theoryand reveals the underlying Oriental colonial thought.
文摘As a work representing part and parcel of Kazuo Ishiguro’s literary creation and underpinning his literary reputation,The Remains of the Day is a full-length novel told by first-person narratives,numerous segments in which are proved to entail post-colonial implications.Mr.Stevens’struggling process of mistreating himself in an inhuman,banal,and restrained manner and later painfully reconstructing his identity is unequivocally revealed.That would conspicuously serves as an epitome of post-war Britain:people were getting lost in their formerly-constructed cultural identity.Facing swiftly-changing milieu in Britain,people may not enable themselves to transform their cognition,self-esteem,pride or even prejudice in a fast speed as the international sit⁃uation may do so.
文摘Louise Erdrich is one of the most important contemporary American writers in America.Her first Novel Love Medicine won most prizes in American literature history.Most researches in America and China on the novel from the perspectives of feminism,post- colonialism,ecocriticism.The themes in the novel such as love,home- coming,identity construction have also been discussed.
文摘When it comes to the postcolonial translation studies,the studies of translation and empire is an indispensible link not only because of translation as a kind of tool in imperialism's conquer and occupation but alsobecause it mainly depends on anthropology,sociolo gy,gender studies,ethnic studies,literary criticism,history,psychoanalysis and political science and philosophy.This thesis mainly from people's psychological influence made by colonization explores how this kind of psychological influence functions in translation.
文摘What has really happened in Europe since 2014?Why in 2018 are so many migrants still making their way towards Europe?For the first time since the Second World War,an important number of individuals have entered into European soil.The idea for this article goes back to October 2015 when the prefet from the town where I live went in search of asylum seekers.This is what sparked off my inquiry amongst about 50 exiles housed in the annex of the Montmorency(95)hospital in July 2015.But against popular belief,migrants are not accepted fairly into countries,and the geographical distribution of Syrians in Turkey,Lebanon,Jordan,and Europe is contrary to what Kant had defended as a“right to visit”.Although the majority of researchers suggest welcoming migrants,it is necessary to reconsider some methodological and epistemological aspects and get away from some wrongly perceived concepts which dated prior to the year 2000.Yet,the Arab Spring has showed that we are dealing with unfinished post-colonialism,something that we will soon come back to in another article where we will propose another solution.
文摘In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the issue of cultural identity and shows her thoughtful understanding of the minority's cultural identity. With a series of analysis and elaborations about The Joy Luck Club based upon post-colonial theories,the author of this thesis holds that: in Amy Tan's opinion, the ethnic cultural identities should not be fixed, single but negotiable and hybrid. Amy Tan's exploration of the ethnic cultural identity can provide some positive enlightenment for those minorities who are still confused about their cultural identities.
文摘The autobiographic novel, A Many-Splendoured Thing, is Han Suyin's famous work. It has moved hundreds of millions ofreaders and audiences with its beautiful love story. By using post-colonial views on identity to analyze the identity crisis of three fe-males, traces three females' two ways to find and reconstruct themselves. The author recognizes Han's concerns over the topic ofidentity in A Many-Splendoured Thing. The characters' identity crisis exemplifies the identity problems of all Eurasians' struggleand choices in 1940's in Hong Kong society.
文摘This essay examines Raymond Williams's autobiographical novel Border Country,the first novel of his ambitious"Welsh Trilogy."The aim of the essay is twofold.Firstly,it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place(native place)shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision.Secondly,the essay calls this trope of internalizing"border-crossing"into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams's identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.
文摘本文根据该著作章节概述Lonán óBriain1《少数民族音乐:越南北部苗族的声音》(Musical Minorities:The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam)—书的主要内容。除此之外评论家试图展示书中的具体问题、有趣的新奇事物和有争议的事实,以便给出一个良好的、恰当的评价。
