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Gosselink, Karin Jean.

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The terms of refuge: Collectivity in contemporary global Anglophone fiction.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The terms of refuge: Collectivity in contemporary global Anglophone fiction./
Author:	Gosselink, Karin Jean.
Description:	205 p.
Notes:	Adviser: John McClure.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-01A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3249297

The terms of refuge: Collectivity in contemporary global Anglophone fiction.
Gosselink, Karin Jean.

The terms of refuge: Collectivity in contemporary global Anglophone fiction. - 205 p.

Adviser: John McClure.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2006.

Refuge serves as a central figure for imagining community in late twentieth-century post-colonial and global Anglophone fiction. In the context of post-World War II political and social struggles, refuge offers tenuous, temporary safety for those targeted by violence and new strategies for creating alternative collectivities beyond the refuge space. Identifying representations of refuge in novels by Bessie Head, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, and Kazuo Ishiguro, this dissertation charts the challenges of narrating such alternative collectivities in a global context. Chapter One considers the terms of refuge: the aesthetic and ethical literary strategies deployed in refuge narratives, and the critical context of their production in an era of widespread forced displacement and weakened nation-states. Chapter Two examines the representation of rural, post-colonial refuge in Bessie Head's 1969 novel, When Rain Clouds Gather. In her depiction of an international, cooperative farming community, Head focuses her narrative on representing the everyday, collective relationships that enable individual development of political consciousness and agency. The third chapter explores the relationship of refuge to contemporary communities of resistance through a reading of Toni Morrison's Paradise. Representing individuals excluded from the liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Morrison's novel re-imagines the terms of liberation through refuge's production of non-utopian, international and transcultural frameworks that sustain local responses to systemic violence. Chapter Four investigates refuge as an ethical response to a call to war in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and Anil's Ghost. Ondaatje's characters take refuge as a means of reconstructing the ethics and epistemologies that shape their participation in collectivities that encompass extreme cultural and social differences. In Chapter Five, Kazuo Ishiguro's deployment of refuge to explore collectivity in the context of global conflict is examined. Through characters born into unstable and threatened international refuges in World War 11-era Japan, England, and China, Ishiguro probes the consequences of exile from such spaces by the pressure of national demands. In each of these novels, refuge emerges not as an allegorical stage for reworking traditional forms of collectivity, but as a set of narrative and ethical practices that engage with contemporary conditions of social struggle.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, African.

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