A Postcolonial Perspective on the Evolution of National Identity in the Novels of Margaret Atwood

作     者：Frolova Valentina 

作者单位：华中师范大学 

学位级别：硕士

导师姓名：朱卫红

授予年度：2019年

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 05[文学] 

主      题：Canadian literature Margaret Atwood identity formation national identity postcolonial critical theory new historicism 

摘      要：The question of national identity is one of the most contradictory ones in postcolonial era and postcolonial *** can be considered the most important issue due to the existence of the identity crisis in all postcolonial *** process of decolonization of the countries subjected to colonial rule triggered a remarkable movement towards restoration of the national identities of the newly freed *** wasn’t an *** phenomenon is explored in most of Margaret Atwood’s novels,yet it has never so far become the subject of a full-scale analysis throughout the author’s entire fictional *** study examines the process of Canadian national identity’s evolution and transformation,reflected in the novels of ***,through the prism of postcolonial critical *** primary material consists of seven novels:The Edible Woman（1969）,Surfacing（1972）,Lady Oracle（1976）,Life Before Man（1979）,Cat’s Eye（1988）,The Robber Bride（1993）and The Blind Assassin（2000）.Grounding arguments in the works of theorists in the sphere of national identity including Benedict Anderson’s study on national identity’s construction,Northrop Frye’s study on Canadian identity crisis,Edward Said’s Orientalism,***’s research on the production of discriminatory identities the researcher attempts to conduct a deeper analysis of ***’s views on the problem of national identity’s acquisition by *** thesis’s methodological basis lies in postcolonial literary criticism and new historical literary *** of these approaches are necessary in order to reach an adequate understanding of the author’s philosophical and ideological position,that is,the influence of the question of the national identity’s recreation in a postcolonial society on Atwood’s literary *** study also examines the reverse process,*** influence of ***’s novels on the process of strengthening the national identity of the Canadian *** thesis is divided into s