The Non-literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-century Novels in EnglishRodopi, 2007 - 506 sivua Public debates on the benefits and dangers of mass literacy prompted nineteenth-century British authors to write about illiteracy. Since the early twentieth century writers outside Europe have paid increasing attention to the subject as a measure both of cultural dependence and independence. So far literary studies has taken little notice of this. The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English offers explanations for this lack of interest in illiteracy amongst scholars of literature, and attempts to remedy this neglect by posing the question of how writers use their literacy to write about a condition radically unlike their own. Answers to this question are given in the analysis of nineteen works featuring illiterates yet never before studied for doing so. The book explores the scriptlessness of Neanderthals in William Golding, of barbarians in Angela Carter, David Malouf, and J.M. Coetzee, of African natives in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe, of Maoris in Patricia Grace and Chippewas in Louise Erdrich, of fugitive or former slaves and their descendants in Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Gaines, of Untouchables in Mulk Raj Anand and Salman Rushdie, and of migrants in Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, and Amy Tan. In so doing it conveys a clear sense of the complexity and variability of the phenomenon of non-literacy as well as its fictional resourcefulness. |
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ILLITERACY AS A LITERARY THEME | 57 |
THE NONLITERATE WITHOUT UNLETTERED CALIBANS IN DISTANT EUROPE | 101 |
THE NONLITERATE IN SIGHT THE UNLETTERED NATIVE IN CONTACT NARRATIVES | 163 |
THE NONLITERATE WITHIN ESTABLISHED FORMS OF NONLITERACY IN LITERATE CULTURES | 259 |
THE ILLITERATE RETURNED ILLITERACY IN MIGRANT LITERATURE | 383 |
CLOSING REMARKS | 437 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 447 |
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The Non-Literate Other: Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels ... Helga Ramsey-Kurz Rajoitettu esikatselu - 2007 |
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Achebe African African-American alienation alphabet American Literature Aphrodite assert awareness Bakha Barbarians Beloved Bouras Casebook century characters Chinese Chinua Achebe civilization colonial Conrad Contemporary Critical David David Malouf discourse English Erdrich European Fiction Gillian Goetsch Heart of Darkness Heroes and Villains Huggan human Ibid identify Igbo illiteracy illiterate Indian Inheritors J.M. Coetzee Kogawa language learning Lesson Before Dying letters linguistic literacy literate culture London Louise Louise Erdrich Love Medicine Malouf Maori Marianne Maxine Hong Maxine Hong Kingston metafiction Midnight's Children Morrison mother Mulk Raj Anand Naomi narrator native Neanderthal never non-literate novel Obasan orality Ovid Padma postcolonial Potiki protagonist read and write reader role Saleem Salman Rushdie Scobie script scriptlessness seems sense Sethe silence social society speech story Studies subaltern Things Fall traditional translation twentieth-century understanding unlettered Untouchable voice Western William Golding Woman Warrior words written
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Sivu 3 - Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Sivu 4 - Save base authority from others' books. • These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.
Sivu 4 - Be not afeard ; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments 145 Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked, 1 50 I cried to dream again.