DFLL Faculty Colloquium 台大外文系學術演講
Title：National Identity and Contemporary British Writing
Speaker：Dr. Pao-I Hwang 黃寶儀助理教授
Date：Wednesday, Dec 24, 2003
Time：3:30pm~5:00pm
Venue：DFLL Conference Room (1st floor Liberal Arts Building)
台大文學院一樓外文系會議室
Abstract:
To look at national identity in some contemporary British writing is to ask
a series of questions: Who are the English? What does it mean to be Scottish,
Irish or Welsh? What is the meaning of Britishness? And, now that the world
is increasingly multi-cultural, can there really be a place for the
"hyphenated” British-Asian or British-African?
Although national identity is largely related to politics, its concepts can be
seen to be all-pervasive. Many different kinds of writing attempt to trace the
development of nation formation, but this study focuses on the fictional works
of some twentieth-century British writers because it seeks to understand the
representation and the value of national identity in a more literary context.
By exploring the different perspectives held by writers such as D. H. Lawrence
and George Orwell; Peter Ackroyd and Julian Barnes; Clare Boylan,
Andrew O’Hagan and Iain Sinclair; David Dabydeen and Hanif Kureishi;
and Kazuo Ishiguro, it is possible to see that nationhood is a cause for both
unity and fragmentation. Hence the most pressing question today: How relevant
is the perpetuation of national identity as a concept? As reality offers one
answer, so the fictional world offers another.
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