A Woman Alone: Engendering the "Island of Consciousness" in Coetzee's Foe and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky  

A Woman Alone: Engendering the "Island of Consciousness" in Coetzee's Foe and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky

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作  者:Robert William Switzer 

机构地区:[1]The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

出  处:《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》2011年第1期23-30,共8页文学与艺术研究(英文版)

摘  要:The theme of the cast-away has inspired numerous literary works. This paper develops a philosophical reading of two important examples, Coetzee's Foe (1987) and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky (1951), in terms of themes such as isolation, silence and truth. But who authors, or authorizes "truth"? As Merleau-Ponty (1970) saw, the ego cogito of phenomenology symbolizes the quest for "global truth" where "what is evident for him" is or could be for all, for he "speaks for everyone". These two works, however, challenge the standard that "he speaks", and she does not: that women "as such", as it would seem, have always already been spoken for. Instead, the focus here is on "the self' not as neutral ground but as always engendered, in every sense of that word--always emergent as well as creative always acculturated, situated, embodied, sexed or de-sexed--always speaking, or remaining stubbornly silent, and always refusing, like truth itself, to be "pinned down"

关 键 词:gender ALTERITY SILENCING POST-COLONIAL 

分 类 号:S814.7[农业科学—畜牧学] X832[农业科学—畜牧兽医]

 

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