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Look At The Jewish Intellectuals’s Predicament And Self-help In Saul Bellow’s Novels From The Perspective Of The Plight Of The Edge

Posted on:2016-09-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:K Y HuangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2285330467996178Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Jewish history is a history of the diaspora. Two thousand years, the Jews calendar catastrophe was ill-fated. The ancient Jewish tradition of culture and historical experience gives heavy Bellow national mission and responsibility. Bellow has a dual cultural identity of the Jewish intellectuals of his characters into specific cultural context, so that the image has the edge characteristics.This paper discusses from the following parts:Chapter One as an introduction to the thesis.The life and the creation of this paper mainly focuses on Bellow, the domestic research present situation of Saul Bellow’s works.The second chapter, starting from the angle of cultural identity, combined with sociologist Parke "marginal people" and the theory of Edward Said’s theory on Intellectuals.discussion of Bellow under the pen of the Jewish Intellectuals "marginal"feature.The third chapter focuses on the protagonist, produce these characteristics of root of social history and culture,analysis of the hero image of the same author cultural identity and personal experience Association.The fourth chapter, the author will analyze Bellow’s two novels Jewish Intellectuals in "Marginalization" spirit of hardship,crazy confusion, loneliness and suffering consciousness. The fifth chapter, the author will combine the postcolonial theorist Homi Baba’s "promiscuous","the third space" theory,to explore the heroine for the reconstruction of identity, of equal voice to obtain self salvation.The strategy are to seek the "third space", the coordination of self-identity and relationship between us-identity identity,the initiative to "exile", memory and writing, finally find peace of mind.Postcolonial theorists actually provides us a new perspective of thinking of cultural identity problem.After experiencing identity anxiety,jewish Intellectuals gradually accepted hybrid identity, to find their own value in the cultural difference.This is conducive to breaking the two opposites the traditional way of thinking, have cultural symbiosis mode of thinking,the promotion of consultation and dialogue between cultures, there are identity remodeling conducive to Jewish Intellectuals "marginal man".
Keywords/Search Tags:Saul Bellow, Jewish intellectuals, Marginal, Cultural Identity, Self-salvation, mixedborderline, The third space
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