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Al-Halool, Musa.

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In quest of Miranda: Towards a postcolonial semantics of transitive sex.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	In quest of Miranda: Towards a postcolonial semantics of transitive sex./
作者:	Al-Halool, Musa.
面頁冊數:	172 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-09, Section: A, page: 3572.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-09A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9600134

In quest of Miranda: Towards a postcolonial semantics of transitive sex.
Al-Halool, Musa.

In quest of Miranda: Towards a postcolonial semantics of transitive sex. - 172 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-09, Section: A, page: 3572.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 1995.

By examining three postcolonial novels in a comparative context, the aim of this dissertation is to study the social, political, and philosophical significance of the ways in which the sexual adventures of three young black men with the white women of their former colonizers are depicted. The three novels under study are Mawsim al-Hijra ila al-Shamal (Season of Migration to the North) by the Sudanese Tayeb Salih (1966), The Adventures of Catullus Kelly by the Jamaican Andrew Salkey (1969), and Comment faire l'amour avec un Negre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro) by the Haitian-Quebecois Dany Laferriere (1985). The focus on the adventures of black men with white women has been inspired by two facts: first, in contemporary postcolonial discourse, the color dichotomy is one of the most readily recognizable transpositions of the primordial Prospero-Caliban paradigm, a paradigm in which Miranda becomes the embodiment of a polysemous quest; second, in patriarchal and racially divided societies, the relationship between a black male and a white female has always been the subject of explosive social debates and wild speculation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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