On The Hybrid Imperial Ideology In Mrs.Dalloway

This thesis sheds light on the temporality and uncertainty of characters’ experience,activities,psychological state,and their activity arenas,purports to explore the imperial ideology in Mrs.Dalloway under the guidance of Homi K.Bhabha’s hybrid theory,arguing that hybridity is the latent source of subjective ambivalence in this novel.The main body of this thesis falls into three sections: chapter one discusses the hybridity of cultural identity that leads the minority communities far from the central British society or in disadvantaged situations to pursue the initiative of existence.Also,hybridity is an ideological interstice for those minority communities to seek their cultural identification under colonial discourse.Thus a sense of ambivalence among different groups spontaneously generates a semantic aisle seemingly ambivalent but unimpeded when they are communicating;the second part centers on the hybridity of geopolitical space which involves different contact zones that include a visible geographical space,and an invisible negotiating zone.The visible geopolitical area is the concrete place for the characters’ activities and an arena formed with the way of British colonial expansion combined with the domestic and foreign economic,political situation,and cultural ideology at that time.It breaks the traditional vision of private and public field based on gender difference;the exclusive urban space of global network of imperial colonization is no longer the central field of characters’ activities;the contrapuntal visions of the mother-country and alien land are juxtaposed without the recognition of center and margin through recalling and visioning the alien land,which brings about a series of cross-cultural forms of hybridity to the communication of those communities who come from different cultural contexts;the third part focuses on the mimicry discourse in the novel that reflects gradual assimilation between two opposite others and forms a vacillating relationship,exhibiting the hybridity of imperial ideology.Mrs.Dalloway unveils that different communities are experiencing a complicated ideological agency and a transition from a hegemonic social system towards a more diversified cultural space in a transforming age,conveying a complex imperial ideology prospect,and a new trend of modern cultural diversity with a transcendental vision of humanitarian concern.