The Counter-Discourse in The Lonely Londoners and No Telephone to Heaven

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Chun Wang, 王筱珺
• Other Authors: Lucie Bernier
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31934398299029072748

碩士 === 世新大學 === 英語學研究所(含碩專班) === 98 === Innovative in narrative structure and language, Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners (1956) and Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987) present themes that have been explored throughout postcolonial studies: “nation language”, diaspora and resistance. Reading the “writing back” texts from Said’s “reading back” approach, this study is centered on analyzing counter-discourse in The Lonely Londoners and Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1987). The quest motif, the narrative structure, the creolized linguistic usage, oral tradition, and the selected locations appeared in the texts will be analyzed in detail for their close relation to counter-discourse. This thesis is organized into four parts: the first part will deal with the main approach of this study, postcolonial countering theories including decolonization, counter-discourse, and topics in resistance culture. The second part of this thesis will focus on examining the texts on the basis of the theorical approach mentioned in Chapter One. Chapter Three analyzes the linguistic interactions between the colonized and the colonizer and introduce other perspective of analyzing “creolized english.” In addition to the discussion of linguistic issues, how Cliff and Selvon applied the language usage to generate counter-discourse will be mentioned in Chapter four.