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Unhomely Homes

其他書名	Postcolonial (re)locations and Self-fashioning in Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Chang-rae Lee
出版	University of Florida, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=30t2AQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋I argue that, contrary to the popular assumption, Conrad cognitively re-maps his Polish heritage and English authorship as ultimately reconcilable elements of his self by actively appropriating the umbrella term "the West," which gained a new significance in the early twentieth century. This chapter complicates Conrad's relationship to imperialism by emphasizing that his ambivalent attitude towards British imperialism should be examined in the context of his Polish past as well as his antagonism against Russian imperialism. The next chapter contrasts Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys's most acclaimed novel, and "The Imperial Road," her rejected manuscript that describes her homecoming. This chapter contends that being a white Creole woman located in-between the Caribbean and England, Rhys tries to "home" herself by alternately and provisionally placing herself in opposition to white Englishmen and Afro-Caribbeans. I approach Rhys's conflicting racial attitude in terms of tactics of self-fashioning and foreground her agency that has been overshadowed by the much debated passivity of her female characters. Chapter 4 analyzes Lee's racialized and gendered Asian American male authoring by examining his debut novel, Native Speaker. Not only does the novel describe the problem of Asian Americans' inclusion in the American nation, but it also addresses the problem of writing as an Asian American male writer. I maintain that Lee equates Asian American male authoring with inventing new political and literary lineages appreciative of hybridity and heterogenieity. But he ultimately reinstates the masculine narrative of the American nation by representing Asian American inclusion and Asian American authoring as manly projects