The Grass Is Singing, the famous British female writer Doris Lessing’s maiden work, has drawn much critical attention since its publication in 1950. This novel has been studied from many perspectives at home and abro...
a phased achievement of the key project“History of African Literatures in English”(19ZDA296)sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China.
The explosion of African literatures in 2021 is not a coincidence,but is dictated by the continent's decolonial,diasporic and hybrid cultural manifestations,its more than a hundred years of struggle for cross-regional...
The notion that’monologic’written texts construe for themselves a putative addressee(variously termed the’ideal’,’imagined’,’virtual’,’intended’,’model’or’mock’reader)has received a great deal of scholar...
In Bakhtin, dialogism and intercorporeity are closely interconnected by a relation of reciprocal implication: there cannot be dialogue among disembodied minds, nor can dialogism be understood separately from a biosemi...
This paper offers a reflection on the essential characteristics and conditions of communication, hence on what makes communication possible. Reflection on communication inevitably calls for a focus on the production o...
Faith can serve as a source of social change and can bring different groups around common ideas and the common good. Its role can be formal through official faith institutions and informal through the work of individu...
Russian language and literature theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is an expert of carnivalized literature. In Rabelais and His Worm (1984) and Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1987), Bakhtin has shown how R...
As a Jewish woman writer from South Africa,Nadine Gordimer is a typical post-colonial novelist in the world history of literature.Her masterpiece Burger's Daughter has shown us her deep thinking about the relation bet...
This study investigates the problems raised in Cixous's The Laugh of the Medusa (1975) through the lens of Bakhtinian theory. The main purpose is to pursue the possibilities that Bakhtin's concepts, such as hetero...