Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor : A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa and America

ISBN-13: 9780415936910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 208 str.

Patsy J. Daniels; J. Daniels Patsy

Opis

This text conducts a selective survey of 12 authors from colonized cultures showing how each writer has necessarily created hybrid texts, in which the voice of the oppressed and the language of the oppressor blend, in order to find a space from which to speak. At work in these texts, Daniels shows, is an act of appropriation whereby the thinkers and writers of colonized cultures must learn the language of the colonizer and talk back to their community, thus making themselves translators who occupy a constructed hybrid space between two cultures. Covering three continents and over 100 years, this accessible book brings issues of post-colonialism into clear focus. Authors discussed in the book are William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich and Leslie Marmon Silko.

Spis treści

I. Introduction: Making Connections II. Yeats: Recovering History III. Joyce: Voicing Paralysis IV. Conrad: Questioning the Empire V. Achebe: Revising History VI: Kingston and Tan: Inventing One's Culture, Making One's Own Luck VII.Morrison and Walker: Imposing Silence, Writing a Voice VIII. Cisneros and Castillo: Resisting the Oppressor, Writing a Liberator IX. Erdrich and Silko: Joining Heaven and Earth, Changing the Ceremony Conclusion Notes Works Cited

O autorze

Patsy J. Daniels teaches at Lane College.