A Study On The Colonial Medicine In Love In The Time Of Cholera From The Perspective Of Post-Colonialism

Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is which is one of the most classic literary masterpieces in the 20 th century. Since its publication, the book has been receiving comments from many literary critics, but very few people have studied the book from the perspective of post-colonial theory and medical culturality.On the study of Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, this paper is theoretical based upon post-colonialism with adopting the method to interpret from the text as well as theory and practice. A deep analysis has been done on this novel that how the west invades the east through western culture; how it make the East society redefined itself in identification, disease, hygiene and so on; as well as their complex relationships with political situation, social pattern, ethnic identity and national values during the whole process.We can summarize the major findings of this research as follows: Firstly, Marquez's cultural characteristics and post-colonialism consciousness. He is a typical writer with strong sense of political mission and responsibility. His post-colonial consciousness is a traumatic wound upon colonialism and brings hope to local people. Secondly, the breaking of cholera is caused by colonialism, but also the causes of western medicine. Western culture is like the cholera,which poisons the local people. Additionally, western medicine could be recognized as a way of cultural hegemony and the tools of ideological struggle. The spread of western medicine is to implant the hegemonistic idea that the western European culture is superior to the local culture, which fundamentally twisted the self-recognition of the local people. Thirdly, love is a flameless war. It is the cultural battlefield of the east and the west.It is concluded that this research extends interdisciplinary research and explores literature and colonization after the western medicine, which not only diversifies post-colonialism, but also seek for the hidden value hidden in medical behavior.