博士 / 淡江大學 / 英文學系博士班 / 106 / This dissertation will explore novels written in the post-colonial period from code-meshing perspective under a theme of translinguality, as that phenomenon reveals figurative paths of communication and indigenous identity. I try to redefine the notion of “translingual novel,” which is filled with a variety of translingual practices and whose author is a transnational or those bilinguals/pluri-linguals. This group of people has a chance to observe the world with their in-between lens. The “translingual novel” in the contemporary era, should be those fictions conducting code-meshing events, rather than simple code-switching activities, in both linguistic and narrative dimensions, with the intention to establish indigenous identity and unique figurative expressions in the narration process. In this process, translinguality should not be merely seen as the expression means of certain fixed identity, rather as a contributor/maker to generate an evolving identity for those Diasporas who are hugely influenced by global mobility and communication. Therefore, identity and figuration have become two essential components of translingual novel. Harnessing methodologies of inter-objectivity and vectorization, this dissertation will study two themes within translinguality, namely identity and figuration, in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) and Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness (2000). By tracing Indian and African translingual novels in the post-colonial era, I will analyze and categorize narrative features of translingualism from the perspective of inter-objectivity and vectorization, with an aim to determine trajectories of code-meshed practice embodied on the theme of figuration and identity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/106TKU05154009 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Jing Lei, 雷靜 |
| Contributors | Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai, 蔡振興 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 215 |
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