英文摘要

TheCommunityinEnglishLiteratureandItsInterdisciplinaryStudy:AnInterviewwithProfessorLiWeiping/JIANGRenfengLIWeiping

Abstract： In this interview, Professor Li Weiping expresses his view about the representation of community in English literature and its interdisciplinary study. The major issues concerned include the concept of community, literature and its interdisciplinary study, community and its interdisciplinary study, the disciplines related to community study, and the literary resources for community study.

Keywords： English literature; community; interdisciplinary study

TheExpeditionofHumphryClinker:CommunityImaginationintheNarrativeofMobility/ZHENGJie

Abstract： The essay intends to disclose the complicated conflicts emerging in the trend of unprecedented mobility in the 18thcentury British society. By analyzing the unique mobility mechanism of people, merchandises and information in the novel, it illustrates the construction of a multi-community involving shared emotion, interest and communication on the basis of integrated symbol and re-territorialization, as a solution to the overwhelming social problems and a way out for the social development.

Keywords：TheExpeditionofHumphryClinker; Tobias Smollett; narrative of mobility; multi-community

OntheWritingofSubculturalCommunityinTheBuddhaofSuburbia/ZHOUChipeng

Abstract： The paper, based on the subculture theory of the Birmingham School, analyzes the subcultural community inTheBuddhaofSuburbia. The salient subversive ideas and resistance style of subcultures disturb the stagnant British society in the 1970s, and expose severe crises of the day. On the other hand, the subculture as a community itself provides a collective solution for tackling the social problems through the community of pop music in the fiction. Forms and styles of pop music that emerge endlessly remind the society of its authentic traits: multiplicity and openness; meanwhile, the community of pop music creates an in-between space which crosses the borderline among races and classes. It criticizes the long-existing thoughts of binary opposition and essentialism, and provides new ideas about solving the racial and social problems and the sustainability of the British community.

Keywords：TheBuddhaofSuburbia; Hanif Kureishi; subculture; community

OnthePredicamentsofFemaleCommunityinHotelduLacfromtheBodyPerspective/XUQiuhong

Abstract： The writing of female community has always been favored by both British and American writers. In her Man Booker Prize-winning novelHotelduLac, the renowned British writer Anita Brookner is no exception in expressing her deep concern with female community. From the perspective of female body, this paper, with related theories on community and body, attempts to explore the predicaments of female community in the novel from two aspects, namely, the discipline of female body by the patriarchal culture and the reification of female body by consumerism, thus to reveal the humanistic concern of Anita Brookner with female issues.

Keywords： Anita Brookner;HotelduLac; predicaments of female community; body

From“WestBriton”to“SettingOutWestward”:TheIreland’sConscienceIdentityinTheDead/ZHANGShanshan

Abstract： James Joyce’s short novelTheDeaddealt with the Irish national identity through the image transformation of the protagonist Gabriel from a “West Briton” to an Irishman “set(ting) out westward”. Under the lens of Benedict’s and Fanon’s theories on nationalism, this study found that the concept of “Ireland of conscience” was brought up along with the criticizing of narrowness and xenophobia latent in Irish cultural nationalism that was influenced by colonialism. The discussion showed that the “conscience” of humanity, which overstepped the limits of nationalism of various forms, should lay the foundation for the Irish national identity. This theme was further developed in other works of Joyce and later recaptured in contemporary Irish novels. It also cast light on how to build a human community with a shared future at present.

Keywords： identification; cultural nationalism; Ireland; conscience

TropeofReadinginTheIvoryGatesandThematicIntertextualitywithConradianTexts/WANGLiya

Abstract： Revolving round a quest motif and a journey plot,TheGatesofIvory(1991) had been recognized by critics as Margaret Drabble’s realistic documentation of Southeast Asia in the 1980s. Realistic as it is, the novel is historically significant in its thematic deployment of the relationship between nineteenth-century colonialism and twentieth-century neo-colonialism. Concentrating on the novel’s depiction of characters’ reading/misreading of Conrad’s fiction all the way along their respective journeys, the paper demonstrates the thematic parallel between Conrad’s intertext andTheGatesofIvory, revealing Drabble’s critique of capitalism and neo-colonialism via writing cross Conrad’s texts.

Keywords：TheGatesofIvory; mock reader; Conradian Texts; thematic intertextuality；sylleptic theme

CulturalTechniquesTheory:Body,MaterialandSymbolfromthePerspectiveofPost-Humanism/LIUYongqiangWUHongyu

Abstract： The generation of culture is inseparable from the practice of techniques. Cultural techniques studies, emerging in Germany since the 1990s, has introduced the dimension of techniques into cultural research, highlighting the embodiment, materiality and operability of culture. Cultural techniques involve not only the use of symbols, but also body techniques and artifactual techniques. The interweaving and interaction among symbol, body and material weave, shape and change the network of cultural meaning. As a posthumanism research paradigm, cultural techniques bridge the opposition between culture and techniques, deconstruct the anthropocentric illusion of beinghomofaber, and emphasize that human culture is generated from the coupling and interaction between human and non-human. The theory of cultural techniques not only provides a new perspective for re-examining “culture” in the era of Digital Humanities, but also sets up a new theoretical coordinate for clarifying the relations between human and symbol, human and artifacts, as well as techniques and culture. This article combs the cultural techniques theory from three aspects: the ideological sources, the theoretical prospects and the paradigm construction with the aim to enlighten the related research.

Keywords： cultural techniques; posthumanism; material culture; technicality of culture; German Media Theories

Trauma,EthicsandHistoryinJhumpaLahiri’sTheLowland/GUANJianming

Abstract：TheLowlandis the second novel that contemporary American writer Jhumpa Lahiri who wrote after her debut novelTheNamesake. It mainly relates of a tragic story that interweaves the four generations of an Indian family. From the perspectives of Trauma Studies, Literary Ethical Criticism and New Historicism, this paper aims at analyzing both the traumas that the main characters in the novel suffer and changes that those traumas bring about in their ethical identities as well as ethical relations. Based on this analysis, this paper will reveal that the lower-cased history as presented in this literary writing constitutes a dialogic relation to the upper-cased History of the Naxalite Movement as recorded in the official Indian history, with the former being an irony and interrogation to the latter.

Keywords： Lahiri;TheLowland; trauma; ethics; history

TheSalmonImagesinYouDon’tHavetoSayYouLoveMe/LIUKedongDONGXingrong

Abstract：YouDon’tHavetoSayYouLoveMeis a memoir by American Spokane Indian writer Sherman Alexie. It tells of the Indian reservation as the place of occurrence, with the love-hate relationship between the author and his mother as the major thread. With stories and poems, the author foregrounds the salmon image, which is a unique epitome of Spokane Indian culture, and projects it to other objects, linking it with maternity, tribal land (resources), and nature worship, to assert his ethical orientation and value expectations. Salmon, the creation of nature, reflects the Indian belief in the spirit of nature. Salmon reproduction projects the importance of the continuation of matrilineal tribes; migration represents the Spokane Indians’ dependence upon and sense of belonging to their homeland.

Keywords： American Indian Literature; salmon image; spirit of nature; matrilineal society; homeland

TravelandIdentity:TheOrientalWritinginTheGentleman’sParlour/LUOMoubei

Abstract：TheGentleman’sParlouris the travel writing Maugham finished after his visit to Southeast Asia in 1922. Before this travel, Maugham had experienced his fateful moment of life. Personally, this travel created the opportunity for Maugham to get rid of contradiction between marriage and homosexual tendency, thus offering basic prerequisite for self-identity. The construction and transformation of traveler’s identity cannot be possible without consciousness of difference and absorption of other. Bearing that in mind, Maugham’s acceptance of multiculturalism in his subject consciousness makes reflective identification with western civilization possible. Inheriting such discursive tradition as Remains in the Jungle and inspired by Buddhism, Maugham insists that harmony between man and nature be the fundamental way out for western civilization and even the whole humanity.

Keywords： Maugham;TheGentleman’sParlour; travel; identity; orient

Survival,WitnessandReflection:ExploringtheAuthor’sIdentityinSlaughterhouse-Five/SUNBingtangYOURuiyun

Abstract： In Kurt Vonnegut’s novelSlaughterhouse-Five, the protagonist Billy Pilgrim breaks free from the fetters of time and has different experiences in the fractured time and space. The author’s experiences in World War II provide a rich reference for the characterization of Billy in the novel. Based on Wayne C. Booth’s narrative theory, the paper analyzes the implied author and the text. In this process, the author’s implied portrait is outlined and the author’s several identities are drawn, namely, the survivor of the bombing, the witness of reconstructing history and the anti-war bell-ringer. By analyzing Vonnegut’s triple identities, we can deepen our thinking about war, care about individuals impaired by war, and learn that only if we have a correct view of history, remember the disasters brought by war, and dig out the moral soil of evil deeds, can we prevent the tragedy from happening again.

Keywords： identity; war; reconstruction of history

TheCivilMedicalDiagnosisandTreatmentinJaneAusten’sNovels:MedicalBackground,TypePresentationandThemeRevealing/ZHANGXin

Abstract： Based on rich medical knowledge, minute daily observation and long period experience, Jane Austen made detailed description of and type presentation on the popular civil medical diagnosis and treatment in her novels. As a branch of medical narrative, civil medical diagnosis and treatment not only pushes the development of stories and enriches plots, but also reveals the author’s penetrating judgment on civil medical diagnosis and treatment and real concern on social reality, thus deepening the themes of novels. A study of civil medical diagnosis and treatment is not a game of literary history research out of side materials but attaches the significance of summarizing the panorama of medical development and exposing the themes of novels, thus re-verifying the author’s concern about and thinking on such significant practical issues as health, life and growth. Far from a self-evident textual study, this needs an exhaustive research into the historical background of medical development in addition to scrutiny and categorization of medical diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords： Jane Austen; medical diagnosis and treatment; medical background; type presentation; theme revealing

TheMediatingRoleoftheCuranderainAcculturation:TheFolkHealingWritinginBlessMe,Ultima/LIUYangDAIGuiyu

Abstract： As the largest and fastest-growing group among American minorities, Mexican Amerians have been seeking solutions for cultural adaptation and identity recognition in the context of mainstream culture. Curandera/os are a unique cultural role in Mexican American society. Because of their mediating role in acculturation, they appear repeatedly in Mexican American literature. The depiction of the curandera Ultima in the novelBlessMe,Ultimaby American Mexican writer Rudolfo Anaya, has rewritten the stereotype of mainstream Catholic culture. The curandera’s treatment of local residents’ physical and psychological illnesses as well as that of the society reveals the history of persecution and resistance experienced by the Mexican ethnic group in border areas where different cultures and religious beliefs converge. The therapeutic concepts of integration, penetration, and transformation embodied in curanderas play an important role in helping ethnic minorities resolve multicultural conflicts and heal cultural trauma. The tension between healing writing and cultural resistance highlights the value and significance of its existence in exploring the hybrid cultural identity of Mexican Americans.

Keywords： cultural adaption; curandera/o; healing writing; Rudolfo Anaya;BlessMe,Ultima