| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 外國語文學系所 === 97 === Abstract
During the heyday of British Empire in the nineteenth century, Australia used to be its colony. In recent years, Australians keep caring about their history, which should be taken off its imperial coat. This thesis aims to analyze Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda in terms of the immigrant identity and Bakhtinian chronotope, to argue that Oscar and Lucinda re-writes Australian history in plural ways.
Chapter one discusses how nostalgia influences immigrant identity of the characters of Oscar, Lucinda and Mr. Jeffris. Oscar and Lucinda have sense of belonging neither in England nor in Australia. Therefore, the dilemma causes their identity crises.
Chapter two emphasizes on Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope, analyzing the time and space in Oscar and Lucinda. Besides, the materialized time and space, including the gambling scenes, the glass church and landscape, will be examined to let readers “see” the past of Australia.
Chapter three analyzes the Australian history in Oscar and Lucinda with New Historicism, discussing how this novel blurs the boundary between fiction and history to re-write the Australian colonial history.
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