| 摘要(英) |
This thesis aims to offer a reading of Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987). Through an analysis of the memory bearing subjects’ wandering life trajectories and their fated-to-be-departed-again encounters, it will bring up how NTH written by the Jamaican-born American writer has dealt with the role memory has played and what memory has effected in the politics of resistance. Particularly, the silences that the memory bearing subjects keep at the moment of speaking memory demonstrate the deconstructive aspect of memory in the politics of resistance. The representability of the subaltern is currently the diasporic intellectuals’ concern in the US, especially when the immigration of the intelligentsia to the US is a noticeable phenomenon by now. Gayatri Spivak is one of those diasporic intellectuals who powerfully bring up this issue. She points out that in their practices of retrieving the subalternity and subaltern voices in order to empower the resistance project, the intellectuals in the metropolitan academy appropriate the subaltern as a signifier for their own academic speaking, and thus wrestling the subaltern speech away from them. As opposed to this, Spivak has advanced that retrieving the subaltern is both a reaching and “un-grasping” of the subaltern. Following Spivak, the retrieving and narrativization of subaltern memory is a question worth pursuing rather than one that can be assumed in reading NTH.
Chapter One is an introduction.
Chapter Two discusses Clare’s intervention practices as a diasporic intellectual. Memory is a complex site fraught with ideologies as the re-construction of it is an act of representation and speaking.
Chapter Three is a reading of Christopher as a subaltern in the novel. It will focus on how the subaltern might be a memory bearing subject but still whose memory and subalternity are not necessarily representable in NTH.
Chapter Four is toward the deconstructive edge of the NTH’s pathos. The deaths of the resisting and subaltern subjects and the elusiveness of their memory are both constitutive of pathos and a deconstructive power of memory. |
| 參考文獻 |
Agosto, Noraida. Michelle Cliff’s Novels: Piecing the Tapestry of Memory and History. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.
Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Cliff, Michelle. No Telephone to Heaven. 1987. New York: Plume, 1996.
-----. The Land of Look Behind: Prose and Poetry. Ithaca: Fireband, 1989.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic. Harvard U P: Cambridge, 1994.
Jay, Martin. Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Kaplan, Carla. “Reading Feminist Readings: Recuperative Reading and the Silent Heroine of Feminist Criticism.” Listening to Silences. Eds. Elaine Hedges and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. New York: Oxford U P, 1994. 168-94.
Oakes, James. Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998.
Palmer Adisa, Opal. “Journey into Speech—A Writer Between Two Worlds: An Interview with Michelle Cliff.” African American Review 28.2 (1994): 273-81.
Parker, Andrew, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, eds. Performativity and Performance. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Rich, Adrienne. “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” Blood, Bread, and Poetry, New York: Norton, 1981. 23-75.
Raiskin, Judith L. Snow on the Cane Fields: Women’s Writing and Creole Subjectivity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Schwartz, Meryl F. “An Interview with Michelle Cliff.” Contemporary Literature 34.3 (1993): 594-619.
Scott, Joan W. “Experience.” Feminists Theorize the Political. Ed. Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott. New York: Routledge, 1992. 22-40.
Spivak, Gayatri Charkravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U P, 1999.
-----. “Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism.” Writing, and Difference. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Chicago, U of Chicago P, 1986. 243-61.
-----. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. New York: Routledge, 1988.
-----. Outside in the Teaching Machine. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Taylor-Guthrie, Danille, ed. Conversations with Toni Morrison. Jackson: U P of Mississippi, 1994. |
[Endnote RIS 格式]
[相關文章]
[文章引用]
[完整記錄]
[館藏目錄]
[檢視]
plurk
funp
live
udn
HD
myshare
netvibes
friend
youpush
delicious
baidu
Google bookmarks
del.icio.us
hemidemi
facebook
twitter
google
reddit