Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, May 2008.

Theses (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-430). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1996. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [202]-207).

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Freie Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2000. / Literaturverz. S. 283 - 297.

Ng Chui-yin, Christine. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-156). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.vi / Contents --- p.vii / "Introduction: History, Fiction, and Narrative" --- p.1 / History and Narrative in Traditional Historical Narrative --- p.4 / A Rethinking of the Relationship between History and Narrative --- p.6 / Historical Narrative in a Postcolonial Context --- p.21 / Historical Novel Writing and Postcolonial Counter Discourse --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Resistance to Solitude: Garcia Marquez's Vision of a New World in One Hundred Years of Solitude / Imperial Historical Narratives and Latin America --- p.35 / Magical Realism and Historical Representation of Latin America --- p.44 / "Solitude, Family History and the Problem of Identity" --- p.59 / Conclusion --- p.71 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Midnight's Children and Hybridity / Imperial Historical Narratives and India --- p.74 / Metafictional Writing and Historical Novel Writing --- p.80 / Hybridity of Indian Cultural Identity --- p.91 / Conclusion --- p.101 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Non-resistance to National Historical Narratives: Xi Xi's Flying Carpet / "British Colonial Narratives, Chinese National Narratives and Hong Kong" --- p.102 / Fairy-tale Realism and an Alternative Historical Representation --- p.112 / The Representation of the HongkongnesśؤHeterogeneity and All-inclusiveness --- p.119 / Conclusion --- p.129 / Conclusion: Postcolonial Counter Discourse in Historical Novel Writing --- p.131 / Notes --- p.141 / Work Cited --- p.148

This dissertation is intended primarily as a contribution to postcolonial criticism and theory and the rhetorical analysis of epidemic writing as they undergo various crises and sublimations in the geopolitical landscape that has come into focus since the multilateral undertaking of the War on Terror in 2001. I begin with a set of questions about representation: when, how, and why are extra-legal, insurgent, anti-colonial, and terrorist forms of violence figured as epidemics in literature and connected discursive forms? What events in colonial history and scientific practice make such representations possible? And how do these representational patterns and their corollary modes of interpretation both reflect and transform discourse and policy? Although the figure is ubiquitous, it is far from simple. I argue that the discourse of the late colonial era is crucial to an understanding of how epidemiological science arises and converges with colonial management technologies, binding the British response to the 1857 mutiny and a growing Indian nationalism to the development of surveillance and quarantine programs to eradicate the threat of the great nineteenth century epidemic, the so-called Indian or Asiatic cholera. Through a constellation of readings of key texts in the British and French colonial and postcolonial traditions, including selected works of Bram Stoker (Dracula, "The Invisible Giant"), Albert Camus (La Peste, Chronique Algérienne) and Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses, Shalimar the Clown, Joseph Anton), I demonstrate how epidemics have played a complex representational role in relationship to violence, enabling us to imagine specific kinds of actors as absolute, powerful enemies of biological and social life, while also recoding violent political action as an organic affliction in order to efface or suppress the possibility of agency. There are two crucial aspects of this story that run throughout the histories and texts I engage with in this project. The first is that the figure of insurgent violence as epidemic has two opposing, yet interrelated faces. One looks to the promise of scientism, data collection and rational study as a means of eradicating the threat of irregular warfare. This is the function of the figure embedded in the practices and progress of epidemiology. On the other hand, the mythopoetics of infectious disease also point toward the occult and the unknowable, and code natural forces of destruction as sublime and inevitable. This is the function of the figure embedded the literary and political history of the term terror, which encompasses both natural and political events and the structures of feeling to which they give rise. The result of this duality is the persistent epistemic collapse of data-driven rational scientism and irrational sublimity in texts where epidemic and terror are at issue. The second crucial aspect of this story is that the dissolution of a colonial world system changes the shape of thinking about both epidemics and violence by displacing a binary architecture of antinomy in both public health and politics. The broadened view of epidemic since the end of the nineteenth century, in other words, has moved us away from metaphors of bellicosity to a more multi-factorial view of bacteriology and virology in temporal, geographic, and demographic space. One of the main goals of this project is to examine the relationship between these shifting epistemologies, narrative form, and imperial strategy. A connected through-line in the dissertation attempts to map what becomes of the biologistic and organicist conception of the state--which are already a matter of representation and imagination--as the very notions of biotoic life and the purview of the organism undergo no less radical redefinitions than the concept of the nation itself, providing the conceptual underpinnings for a subsequent biomorphic conception of the globe.

This thesis examines different forms that ‘disidentification,’ as defined by Lisa Lowe and José Esteban Muñoz, takes in Bluebird: A Memoir by Vesna Maric and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. I further define ‘disidentification’ by narrowing down to two types that I coin ‘social disidentification’ and ‘political disidentification.’ I use ‘social disidentification’ as a model of survival and ‘political disidentification’ as a model of resistance. Throughout, I examine how the construct of multiculturalism effects the formation of migrant identities and because of this I look at which type of ‘disidentification’ the migrant will align with. By examining migrant identities and how they come to identify with some form of a British identity across both texts, I conclude that the idea of “Britishness” needs to be revised to be inclusive of all identities that make up the space of Britain rather than just including privileged identities. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2019. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Le traitement actuel de la violence exprime nos inquiétudes et nos préoccupations devant un monde rendu de plus en plus incertain. Cette violence nous convie à de nouveaux paradigmes, imaginaires, signes et représentations. Conséquemment, l'inflation des images de la violence entretient le désordre et le chaos de notre monde moderne, en plus d'en faire la propagande sous la forme d'un spectacle convenable et standardisé. À partir du roman Shame de Salman Rushdie, il sera montré que les images de la violence proposées par cet écrivain font émerger une violence fondatrice, un objet de pensée riche en interprétations, contrairement à une violence spectaculaire dénuée d'ambiguïtés et de nuances. À ce propos, les positions de plusieurs penseurs sur la question de la violence, du rapport à l'image et à la fiction seront abordées afin de mieux comprendre le rôle de la figuration de la violence dans l'œuvre romanesque de cet écrivain. L'étude du processus de figuration servira à dégager un réseau de figures construites autour de la violence et caractérisées par le dualisme et l'altérité. À partir du personnage principal de Shame, une idiote qui incarne et transcende le sentiment de honte, il s'agira d'examiner la relation subversive qu'entretiennent figure et affect. Dans ce cas-ci, la figure de l'idiot qui est à la fois une puissance d'affect et de concept, nous autorise à penser l'origine de la violence, mais permet aussi de poser un regard neuf sur le monde. Ce mémoire dépeint la manière singulière dont le récit décante le processus de figuration, c'est-à-dire en mettant une distance avec ses propres figures consentant ainsi à la prise de recul nécessaire d'une posture critique. Une critique de la violence deviendra donc le moteur d'une écriture peuplée de ruptures, de répétitions et d'exacerbations visant à détourner la violence contemporaine en l'attaquant avec ses propres armes. La figuration de la violence autorise la représentation de l'irreprésentable et l'aveu de l'inavouable et est en ce sens perçue comme une stratégie de subversion narrative et textuelle qui détruit les formes sclérosées de la littérature et vient modifier l'acte de lecture. Cette violence qui s'immisce dans l'imaginaire de Rushdie, en plus d'exposer les complexités de l'identité et notre rapport avec l'Autre, se mêle aux procédés littéraires des romans postmodernes afin de les transformer et les enrichir. Ce mémoire propose enfin une étude des particularités de la métafiction, de l'imaginaire contemporain, ainsi que de la satire, tactique de subversion par excellence. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Violence, figuration, imaginaire, subversion, dualisme, identité, métafiction, postmodernité, Salman Rushdie, Shame.