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A Study Of Other Images In Nadine Gordimer's Novels

Posted on:2020-10-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H L WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2405330596468266Subject:Literature and art
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Known as "the conscience of South Africa",Nadine Gordimer has a deep sense of reality and a unique ethnic style.During her life,Nadine Gordimer wrote a lot of novels,essays,comments,etc.and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.After combing and analyzing the works,we can find that the latest creations pay more attention to the individual in politics and society.In these works,described much more the inner world and the external life of the other's image.Domestic and foreign research pay less attention to the image of the multi-dimensional other and the cultural concern behind them created in the text of Nadine Gordimer.Therefore,in the mutual interpretation of literature,philosophy and anthropology,this dissertation reach from the perspective of other,and analyzes the image of the multi-dimensional other in three novels from Gordimer,A Guest of Honour,None to Accompany Me and The Pickup.Explore the author's sentiments contained in the image of the multi-dimensional other,and try to understand the cultural development of South Africa through text and cultural studies.The introduction part clarifies the category of the other's image in the mutual interpretation of each subject.After combing the research status of Gordimer's works,it points out the significance of studying the image of the multi-dimensional other.The first chapter mainly introduces Gordimer and the motivation of her creation of the other's image.Her own experience and creative environment prompted her to consciously pay attention to the other,and take the initiative to think about the legitimacy and significance of their existence.The second chapter combs and analyzes the types of the multi-dimensional other's image,pointing out that these kind of characters are mainly include types of gender,ethnic and cultural,in which this logical sequence of arriving from an early age,it summarizes the similar behavior patterns of them in order to get rid of the location of other.The third chapter focuses on the narrative structure and mode of the work to fully display the image of the multi-dimensional other,pointing out that the author adjusts the time,space and overall narrative structure,it indirectly shows her position byotherification?other restore and mutual other.The fourth chapter analyzes the author's significance in constructing the image of the multi-dimensional other from the author herself,text and society.It can be found that the author explores the emancipation of the image of the multi-dimensional other in her quest for the other,to create a literary field,and to construct a harmonious social relationship.Gordimer metaphorically pointed to the construction of the image of South Africa through the writing of the image of the multi-dimensional other,and wrote personalized and construct imaginatively of the national image of South Africa.
Keywords/Search Tags:Nadine Gordimer, Other poetics, gender other, ethnic other, cultural other
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