重写《鲁滨逊漂流记》___对《福》的后现代主义和后殖民主义解读_论文.docVIP

重写《鲁滨逊漂流记》 ――对《福》的后现代主义和后殖 民主义解读 上海交通大学 学校代码： 10248  学  号： 1051409018  学科专业： 英美文学  姓  名： 王景莉  指导教师： 索宇环教授 二零零柒年拾月 1 M． A.  THESIS  Rewriting Robinson Crusoe -- A Postmodernist and Postcolonial Reading of Foe  By  Wang Jingli  Under the supervision of Professor Suo Yuhuan Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University In partial fulfillment of M.A. degree 2 Contents  Acknowledgements Abstract (in Chinese) Abstract (in English) Introduction 1J. M. Coetzee—A colonial witness and post-colonial speaker 2Foe—A colonial story from the post-colonial perspective 3Established scholarship and the scope of the present research Chapter 1 Post-colonialism and Post-modernism  1 3 5  i ii iii 1 7  1.1  The history and political environment of South Africa  and Apartheid  7  1.2 1.3 1.4  Post-colonialism Coetzee’s literary creation in this political background Postmodernism and Postmodernist techniques  9 10 14  1.4.1 1.4.2  What is postmodernism Postmodernist techniques  14 16   Death of the author Uncertainty Metafiction  16 16 17  Chapter 2 Rewriting Robinson Crusoe—a Post-colonial Ideology  19  2.1  What is rewriting and the outburst of literary rewriting  in the postmodernist era  19  2.1.1  Definition and purpose of rewriting  19  2.1.2  Rewriting the classics both in form of books and on Internet  in the postmodernist era  20  2.2 2.3  Rewritings of Robinson Crusoe throughout literary history Main plots and theme of Foe  22 24  Chapter 3 Rewriting Robinson Crusoe – A Post-modernist Narrative 3  26 3.1  Deconstruction of authorial authority  26  3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.5 3.1.6 3.1.7  The definition of “deconstruction” The omniscient narrator in Robinson Crusoe—Crusoe General analysis of narrative structure in Foe The female narrator in Foe—Susan Barton and her quest of a true story The powerless white man author in the story—Foe The withdrawal of the original narrator—Crusoe The silent na