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Textual Interpretation In The Context Of The Postcolonial

Posted on:2014-01-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Z MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330398968277Subject:Literature and art
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As one of the twentieth Century hottest theories, Postcolonial theory soon swept the whole world; and it has some indivisible association with Postcolonial literature which represents a creative trend in literature research. This thesis which uses the postcolonial theory to study postcolonial literary texts, on the one hand, excavates early Western Colonial Consciousness in the classics, to "Deconstruct" classic text; on the other hand, it concerns the rise and development of colonial literature, to "construct" the text. In historical retrospect, imperialism has been an indisputable fact. We should realize that, along with economic political colonial invasion, the western colonists are aggressive and rewriting of the colonial culture, and that the cultural colonization shows great diversity, including religion, language, literature of colonial colonial colonial etc. Compared with the political and economic colonization, the impact of cultural colonization is even more great and far-reaching. Even after the collapse of the colonial system, imperialism and cultural hegemony consciousness still exist, and even extend and develop their new pattern. With the globalization of culture, it’s a worth thinking question whether national culture insists its locality or responds to the globalization of culture more actively. Western cultural hegemony consciousness is reflected and promoted in the text, so we should use the post-colonial theory to analyze the text, in order to achieve the resolution center of the western discourse, and also to promote East-West dialogue purpose. This thesis, which is based on the postcolonial theory, chooses a postcolonial literature interpretation of representative writers and works of text interpretation, aiming to reveal Western cultural hegemony. It corresponds to the practice of Western cultural hegemony directly, and explains colonial theory with text.
Keywords/Search Tags:Postcolonial theory, cultural hegemony, Text reading, globalization, localization
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