Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179459
Carmen Thong
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2022.2163419
Carles Prado-Fonts
ABSTRACT This article explores how Victor Segalen’s novel René Leys ([1921] 1922) problematizes the ways in which the west has imagined China and how this novel reflects obstinate Orientalism – a stubborn insistence on exoticist fantasies despite their being repeatedly denied by reality. The article argues that, through a portrayal of this obstinacy, René Leys offers a sound critique of the colonial encounter that goes beyond Segalen’s impressionistic reflections included in Essai sur l’exotisme (Essay on Exoticism [1955] 1978), typically considered his main contribution to postcolonial theory. The article also shows that the novel’s lucid and critical exposure of the creation of the Orientalist object has remained unnoticed by previous interpretations due to the novel’s ironic structure, which eclipses its own criticism and makes it more difficult to be perceived by western readers. This article offers insight into the literary mechanisms that obscure the hierarchical values underlying frames for cross-cultural interactions such as cosmopolitanism and World Literature.
摘要本文探讨了维克多·塞加伦(Victor Segalen)的小说《任》(RenéLeys,[1921]1922)如何质疑西方对中国的想象方式,以及这部小说如何反映出顽固的东方主义——一种对外来幻想的顽固坚持,尽管这些幻想一再被现实否定。这篇文章认为,通过对这种顽固性的刻画,勒内·莱斯对殖民遭遇进行了有力的批判,超越了塞加伦在《异国情调论》(Essai sur l’Exotism,1955年-1978年)中的印象派反思,这通常被认为是他对后殖民理论的主要贡献。这篇文章还表明,由于小说的讽刺结构,小说对东方主义对象创作的清晰而批判性的揭露在以前的解读中一直没有被注意到,这掩盖了它自己的批评,使它更难被西方读者所感知。这篇文章深入探讨了模糊跨文化互动框架(如世界主义和世界文学)的等级价值观的文学机制。
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Pub Date : 2023-02-23DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179466
Hayley G. Toth
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Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179464
Gavin Herbertson
{"title":"Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930–2017: In various light","authors":"Gavin Herbertson","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2179464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2179464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42202692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179472
Qingquan Qiao
{"title":"Chiang Yee and his circle: Chinese artistic and intellectual life in Britain, 1930–1950","authors":"Qingquan Qiao","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2179472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2179472","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41871139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-22DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179471
Michelle Stork
{"title":"Mobility in contemporary Zimbabwean literature in English: Crossing borders, transcending boundaries","authors":"Michelle Stork","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2179471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2179471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48331395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179465
Jie Guo
{"title":"The idea of Indian literature: Gender, genre, and comparative method","authors":"Jie Guo","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2179465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2179465","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48633138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-17DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2179469
M. Kaladeen
{"title":"Re-Imagining the Guyanas","authors":"M. Kaladeen","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2179469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2179469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45939170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2171585
Mitterand Okorie
{"title":"Deliberative agency: A study in modern African political philosophy","authors":"Mitterand Okorie","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2171585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2171585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45290742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2023.2171527
J. van Amelsvoort
{"title":"The Cambridge history of world literature (2 vols)","authors":"J. van Amelsvoort","doi":"10.1080/17449855.2023.2171527","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2023.2171527","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44946,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Postcolonial Writing","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44895719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}