Rewriting Neoliberal Hegemony: Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
| Autor: | Yu-Shuan Chen, 陳宇璿 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 99 This thesis attempts to research how American neoliberal hegemony in the 1990s transfers the stress from the level of national policy to civil life of characters in Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel Tropic of Orange, and the seven characters response to the hegemony in different ways. David Harvey proposes neoliberal hegemony to elaborate American growing power after the 1970s; economic logic becomes a type of hegemony which guides not only national policy but people’s action in a rational way. Antonio Gramsci considers that hegemony is a power through consent and difficult to be perceived in daily routine. Chapter one starts from theories of neoliberalism and hegemony; Bobby, Emi and Gabriel are obedient to the dominant power, and they consent to the power ruling their life at the present. Chapter two discusses that the magic realist scenes in which Rafaela and Arcangel appear provide the opportunities for the Chicano to rewrite their ethnic history and to redefine the reality that we are unacquainted with. Curved time and space underline the inconceivable flows of humans and products in global age. In chapter three, Buzzworm and Manzarna, two Benjaminian flaneur figures use indirect methods to negotiate with the hegemony instead of confronting it radically. The strategy provides the possibility of practicing Lisa Lowe’s counterhegemony. |
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