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(대학원) 영연방문학연구(11276-00)/ 2014 Spring Semester/ 충남대 영어영문학과/ 담당교수 박종성 Reading List 다양한 국적 출신 영어권 (아웃사이더) 작가들의 감수성, 시각, 문체, 감수성을 조망함. 1. Joseph Conrad, Almayer's Folly(1895). A Polish Emigre & British writer Set in the late 19th century, it centers on the life of the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer in the Borneo jungle and his relationship to his mixed heritage daughter Nina. 2. George Orwell, Burmese Days(1934). British writer. It is a tale from the waning days of British colonialism, when Burma was ruled as part of the Indian empire―"a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At its centre is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature."Orwell's first novel, it describes "corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, "after all, natives were natives―interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people." 3. V. S. Naipaul, The Mystic Masseur(1957). British writer born and raised in Trinidad, West Indies. The comic novel by V. S. Naipaul moves between farce and acerbic social commentary on Trinidad, the country of his birth. The characters are mainly members of Trinidad's South Asian community. The protagonist is a frustrated writer of Indian descent (Ganesh Ramsumair) who rises from poverty on the back of his dubious talent as a 'mystic' masseur―a masseur (Pundit Ganesh) who can cure illnesses. In the end he becomes a successful colonial politician (G. Ramsay Muir). 4. Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient(1992). Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Booker Prize for fiction. 5. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go(2005). Japanese-born British novelist. A 2005 dystopian science fiction novel. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day). |