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重返平衡,寻求和谐后殖民生态视域下《神秘的河流》与《石乡行》比较思考

日期:2023年02月25日 编辑:ad201107111759308692 作者:无忧论文网 点击次数:473
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论文地区:中国 论文语种:English 论文用途:硕士毕业论文 Master Thesis

本文是一篇英语论文,本文研究了《隐秘的河流》和《石头国之旅》中的不平衡现象。借助后殖民生态批评相关理论,我们可以得出结论:白人造成的不平衡对原住民的自然、社会和精神生态造成了破坏,尽管白人和原住民都面临着冲突,但处理崩溃的平衡的不同策略可能会导致不同的结果,一方重新获得平衡和内心平静,另一方则陷入混乱中度过余生。
Chapter One Introduction

1.1 An Introduction to the Authors and Works

1.1.1 Kate Grenville and The Secret River

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Kate Grenville was born in 1950,one of three children born to Kenneth GrenvilleGee,a district court judge a pharmacist mother(Henderson 22).When Grenville was achild,she displayed the greatest fantasy in the story,especially when her grandmotherretrospected their ancestors’experience,which was closely interwoven with theformation of Australia.With enthusiasm to literature works,Grenville decided to studyliterature during college,further pursuing her dream.

Grenville has rich experience in her life.After earning a bachelor’s degree fromthe University of Sydney,she began working as a film editor and writer.She became asub-editor at SBS Television and left there to pursuing her writing(Waldren 9).In thelate 1970s,she held various jobs in London and Paris and then went to the United States,where she obtained a master’s degree in creative writing from the University ofColorado.Two years later she published her first book,Bearded Ladies.A collection ofshort stories that explored gender,power,and Australian national identity,all of whichset the tone for Grenville’s later work.Lilian’s Story(1984),her first published novel,and Dreamhouse(1986)both examined women struggling against oppressive situations(Grenville 20).After moving to Colorado,Grenville began teaching,and with TheWriting Book:A Workbook for Fiction Writers(1990),she began publishing booksabout her craft.Grenville achieved major international success with The Idea ofPerfection(1999).The central idea of the novel is thought-provoking:human beings areweak,but together in a relationship,they can provide strength for each other.

1.2 Background of This Research

In recent years,under the call of ethnic diversity,the Australian reconciliationmovement came into being.Based on the historical events,most authors present thehistory in their novels,attempting to arouse people’s reflection on the war.Asrepresenting work of this genre,both Kate Grenville’s The Secret River and AlexMiller’s Journey to the Stone Country present a tragic history of blood and fire betweenthe white and aboriginals.As an essential part of studying colonial history,the twobooks have the remarkable characteristics of the post-colonial novel,which causedheated discussions especially on its political appeals and colonists’identity.However,the colonial behaviors also indicate a strong sense of ecological crisis,which did notreceive more attention from both scholars at home and abroad.

When reading these two novels,like many other readers,at the beginning,Ifocused on racial conflicts and cultural clashes.While after the intensive reading,Inoticed that there exists a common imbalance in the two novels.On one hand,duringcolonization,the white settlers disturbed the local ecological system and violated thenatives’human rights.On the other hand,the colonists also suffered from inner turmoil.Although they possessed the dreamland and gained material success,they never foundthe inner peace,struggling in the internal unrest of Aboriginal dispossession andgenocide.Therefore,we can find that the irreconcilable racial ambivalence are theembodiment of the broken balance in human and nature,society and humansthemselves,and racial reconciliation will be possible if people can hold an ecologicaloverview.

Chapter Two Literature Review

2.1 Studies of The Secret River and Journey to theStone Country abroad

With its multiple themes,The Secret River has been widely read since it waspublished in 2005.Both home and abroad researchers studied it from different aspects.

Western critics first focus on the complex issue of history and fiction.The authorGrenville(2008)claims that this book dedicates to the aboriginal people of Australia inthe past,present,and future,and she wants to exhi