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Modernity, violence, the Third World: A reading of contemporary fiction.

机译：现代性，暴力，第三世界：对当代小说的解读。

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Subjectivity refers to life's meaningful relation to the self, community and the world. It is what sustains the individual's potentiality to reach out to others, humans and nature, as a person, and gives the individual the freedom worth its name. At the same time, it acts as a channel through which the individual shares in the exteriority of his/her community. We give emergence to the domination/subordination cycle if we suppress this fundamental element of life, accompanied by a system comprised of Subjects (the rulers), subjects (the ruled) and subalterns (the people, who are multiply marginalized). Violence is an unavoidable consequence of such alienated social relation. The rigid hierarchical social relations stemming from the ethos of modernity, and colonialism, this dissertation argues, are inter-connected events, which have remained intact in the post-colonial world. While the crisis brought about by the lack of practices of subjectivity afflicts humanity in the age of technological modernity, the possibility of a more just community is not out of reach. Such possibility can be located in the reflective attitude toward life and the world, as shown to us in history by such figures as Mahatma Gandhi, and by various literary characters discussed in this project. We can see such figures as Saleem in Midnight's Children, Gatuiria's mother in The Devil on the Cross, the judge's father in The Inheritance of Loss, Lillian Gordon in Jasmine, and John Mist in The Tree Bride working toward giving expression to practices of subjectivity in a more just community.
机译：主体性是指生活与自我，社区和世界的有意义的关系。它保持了个人作为一个人与他人，人与自然接触的潜力，并赋予了个人应得的自由。同时，它充当个人共享其社区外部性的渠道。如果我们压制生活的这一基本要素，并伴随有一个由主体（统治者），主体（被统治者）和下属（被多重边缘化的人民）组成的系统，我们就会进入统治/从属循环。暴力是这种疏远的社会关系不可避免的结果。本论文认为，源于现代性和殖民主义的僵化等级制社会关系是相互联系的事件，在后殖民世界中仍然完整无缺。在现代技术时代，由于缺乏主观性的实践所带来的危机困扰着人类，但建立一个更加公正的社区的可能性并非遥不可及。这种可能性可以存在于对生活和世界的反思态度中，正如圣雄甘地这样的人物在历史上向我们展示的，以及该项目中讨论的各种文学人物向我们展示的那样。我们可以看到这样的人物，例如《午夜的孩子》中的萨利姆，《十字架上的恶魔》中加图里亚的母亲，《遗失的遗产》中法官的父亲，《茉莉花》中的莉莲·高登，以及《树新娘》中的约翰·米斯特，他们致力于表达主体的实践。一个更公正的社区。

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    Katawal, Ubaraj.;

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    State University of New York at Binghamton.;

  • 授予单位 State University of New York at Binghamton.;
  • 学科 Literature Modern.;South Asian Studies.;Literature American.;Literature African.;Literature Asian.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2012
  • 页码 228 p.
  • 总页数 228
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 水产、渔业;
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