“You just don’t understand.”-A Postcolonial Reading of Everyday Use ( Vol-2,Issue-5,September - October 2017 )
Author: Zhao Zhiliang
Keyword: Everyday Use; the Other; African culture.
Abstract: This paper presents a postcolonial reading of Alice Walker’s Everyday Use, a new perspective on this story. The visitors is metaphorically regarded as new “colonizer”, the Other against Mama and Maggie who have finally defended their stance and truly sustained the African culture.
References:
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[2] Bauser, M. Alice Walker: Another southern writer[J].Studies in Short Fiction, 1992(2):143-152.
[3] Cowart, D. Heritage and Deracination in Walker’s Everyday Use[J].Short Story Criticism, 1996(2):171-184.
[4] Drabble,M. The Oxford Companion to English Literature[M].Beijing:Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,2005.
[5] Farrell, S. Fight vs. Fight: A Re-Evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use.’[J].Studies in Short Fiction, 1998(2):179-186.
[6] Grusser, J. Walker’s EVERYDAY USE[J].Explicator, 2003(2):183-185.
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[8] Martin,J. The Quilt Threads together Sisterhood, Empowerment and Nautre in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and “Everyday Use”.[J]. Journal of Intercultural Disciplines, 2014(14):27-44.
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[10] Mullins, M. Antagonized by the text, or, it takes two to read Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”.[J].The Comparatist, 2013(37):37-53.
[11] Sarnowski, J. Destroying to Save: Idealism and Pragmatism in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.”[J].Papers on Language &Literature, 2012(3):269-286.
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[14] 张德明.多元文化杂交时代的民族文化记忆问题[Ｊ].外国文学评论,2001(3):11-16.
[15] 张汉熙. 高级英语第1册(第三版)[Z].北京：外语教学与研究出版社,2011.
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[2] Bauser, M. Alice Walker: Another southern writer[J].Studies in Short Fiction, 1992(2):143-152.
[3] Cowart, D. Heritage and Deracination in Walker’s Everyday Use[J].Short Story Criticism, 1996(2):171-184.
[4] Drabble,M. The Oxford Companion to English Literature[M].Beijing:Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press,2005.
[5] Farrell, S. Fight vs. Fight: A Re-Evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use.’[J].Studies in Short Fiction, 1998(2):179-186.
[6] Grusser, J. Walker’s EVERYDAY USE[J].Explicator, 2003(2):183-185.
[7] Hoel, H.Personal Names and Heritage: Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’[J].American Studies in Scandinavia, 1999(1):34-42.
[8] Martin,J. The Quilt Threads together Sisterhood, Empowerment and Nautre in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and “Everyday Use”.[J]. Journal of Intercultural Disciplines, 2014(14):27-44.
[9] McLeod, J. Beginning Postcolonialism[M].Manchester:Manchester University Press,2000.
[10] Mullins, M. Antagonized by the text, or, it takes two to read Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”.[J].The Comparatist, 2013(37):37-53.
[11] Sarnowski, J. Destroying to Save: Idealism and Pragmatism in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use.”[J].Papers on Language &Literature, 2012(3):269-286.
[12] Tuten, N. Alice Walker’s Everyday Use[J].Explicator, 1993(2):125-128.
[13] Whitsitt,S. IN Spite of It All: A Reading of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”[J].African American Review, 2000(3):443-459.
[14] 张德明.多元文化杂交时代的民族文化记忆问题[Ｊ].外国文学评论,2001(3):11-16.
[15] 张汉熙. 高级英语第1册(第三版)[Z].北京：外语教学与研究出版社,2011.
[16] 朱刚.二十世纪本文文艺批评理论[Ｚ].上海：上海外语教育出版社, 2001.
DOI: 10.24001/ijels.2.5.2
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