后殖民时代

从维柯、黑格尔等人对社会历史分期的论述,可深入认识"后殖民时代"的社会特点,从而把握后殖民理论的中心,即他们对西方文化的颠覆、批判,以超越自己的途径,而走向人性的充分发展.     

殖民时期的澳大利亚移民小说

移民小说是澳大利亚殖民时期小说的一个重要分支 ,与早期澳洲文学中独特的“流犯小说”占有同样突出的地位。本文作为作者正在撰写中的《大洋洲文学史》的一部分 ,勾勒了该类型小说的发生、发展及其特点 ,集中讨论了有关主要作家与主要作品 ,为澳殖民时期的移民小说提供了一个大致而清晰的面貌。     

Stereoscopic visions: reading colonial and contemporary African photography

This piece argues for the importance of critical engagements with photographs in order to explore and rethink the past, to reflect on the present and to imagine the future. It provides a brief overview of the articles that constitute the first part of the Social Dynamics special issue on photography in Africa, a collection that contributes to the growing body of scholarship that deepens our understandings of the significance of photography on the continent.     

A transient presence: black visitors and sojourners in Imperial Germany, 1884–1914

The onset of German colonial rule in Africa brought increasing numbers of black men and women to Germany. Pre-1914 the vast majority of these Africans can best be described as visitors or sojourners and the black population as a whole was a transient one. This makes recovering their presence in the archival record exceptionally difficult and it is not surprising that the existing historiography is dominated by biographies of well-documented lives. Through utilising a number of recently digitised archival materials, particularly the Hamburg Passenger Lists, this article draws upon a database with information on 1094 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa who spent time in Germany over the period 1884–1914 in order to widen our understanding of the black presence as a whole. It offers new insights and detail into the composition and character of this fluid population – where visitors came from, why they came to Germany, their age on arrival – as well as more accurate information on the temporal and spatial distribution of African visitors.     

Orientalising deafness: race and disability in imperial Britain

This article explores the conflations and connections that postcolonial and disability scholars have drawn between ‘race’, ‘colonialism’ and ‘disability’ from a historical perspective. By looking at the connections drawn between ‘race’ and ‘disability’ in the context of nineteenth-century imperial Britain, I hope to probe beyond them to examine the origins and implications of their interplay. I do so by focusing on ideas about deafness, an impairment radically reconfigured in the colonial period, and inflected with concerns about degeneration, belonging, heredity and difference. Disability, I argue, not only operated as an additional ‘category of difference’ alongside ‘race’ as a way of categorising and subjugating the various ‘others’ of Empire, but intersected with it. The ‘colonisation’ of disabled people in Britain and the ‘racial other’ by the British were not simply simultaneous processes or even analogous ones, but were part and parcel of the same cultural and discursive system. The colonising context of the nineteenth century, a period when British political, economic and cultural expansion over areas of South Asia, Australasia and Africa increased markedly, structured the way in which all forms of difference were recognised and expressed, including the difference of deafness. So too did the shifts in the raced and gendered thinking that accompanied it, as new forms of knowledge were developed to justify, explain and contest Britain's global position and new languages were developed through which to articulate otherness. Such developments reconfigured the meaning of disability. Disability was, in effect, ‘orientalised’. ‘Race’ I argue was formative in shaping what we have come to understand as ‘disability’ and vice versa; they were related fantasies of difference.     

印度书写：殖民文学与后殖民文学的历史关联

殖民文学与后殖民文学在书写东方印度主题方面，存在一些复杂微妙的历史联系，存在着历时性和共时性的“东方”话语，这与一些英国作家和印裔英国作家的东方主义心态有关。     

地域与心域：论“北达科他州系列”中生态扩张对政治文化扩张的推进作用

作为有自觉生态意识与种族观念的印第安裔美国作家,露易斯·厄德里克的“北达科他州系列”以其文本丰富的生态与政治文化内蕴著称。基于后殖民生态批评理论,本文指出,“北达科他州系列”揭示了西方殖民者通过对生态扩张实现殖民扩张的隐秘路径。文本揭示,西方话语是通过对“荒野”概念的殖民定义突破了原住民文化传统的合法性,从而以生态扩张实现了对经济与种族文化的双重帝国殖民化。生态扩张本质上是打着促进社会发展和传播先进文明的旗帜进行的殖民扩张,摧毁当地原生生态系统乃至文化系统。此外,厄德里克“北达科他州系列”一方面对此生态扩张行径提出发聩抨击,同时也对其中的发展与文明的伦理悖论性提出开放性思考。     

LGBTQ Activist Organizations as ‘Respectably Queer’ in India: Contesting a Western View

This study contests the distinction of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) organizations suggested by earlier scholars as ‘respectable’ — i.e. normalizing, professionalizing and conforming to the dominant cultural and institutional patterns — and ‘queer’, meaning challenging the cultural and institutional forces that ‘normalize and commodify differences’. Using Bernstein's model of identity deployment, it is found problematic to distinguish LGBTQ organizations this way because when the actions of LGBTQ organizations are more complex to describe, it is not warranted to conflate identity goals with identity strategies — whether normalizing (respectable) or differentiating (queer). To examine these concerns, a qualitative inquiry was used to study five LGBTQ organizations in India where the intersections of post‐colonial ethnicity, gender, social class and sexuality offer an intriguing context through which to study queer activism. Based on the findings, it is argued from a post‐colonial perspective that when the socio‐cultural and historical existence of non‐homonormative queer communities and practices is strong, LGBTQ organizations challenge the heteronormative and/or other forms of domination to become ‘queer’. But they may simultaneously become ‘respectable′ by conforming to the diversity politics of non‐profit business, donors, and social movement organizations they seek support from, and turn out as ‘respectably queer’.     

论《金锁记》主人公抗争宿命的绝域之路

重新审视了张爱玲代表作《金锁记》中曹七巧这一形象的人性价值与命运悲剧，尝试从新的角度分析她走向毁灭过程中宿命抗争的实质。     

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