臺灣博碩士論文加值系統

中 文 摘 要
本論文試圖將焦點集中在奈波爾的兩部離散小說《大河灣》與《畢斯沃玆之屋》，並透過援引的理論檢視重新定位認同／主體性的必要性與策略。同時，也提供一種閱讀奈波爾之作的一種方式。
前言部分，大略介紹奈波爾、本論文所探討的兩部小說、以及空間理論與巴赫汀的小說理論。第一章嘗試描繪關於殖民歷史的重現並對於一廂情願、盲目地尋求殖民前的社會的懷抱表示不認同。第二章則對於「歷史」的本質提出詰問，主張「盡信史不如無史」，並引用巴赫定汀的理論，檢視認同／主體性的消失。第三章則以空間理論，審視認同／主體性的消失。結論部分，則強調歷史本身是一種空間與一種空間；而空間則是一種語言，並重申本論文的另一目的--提供另一個閱讀奈波爾作品的可能性。

Abstract
The purposes of this thesis, concentrating on analyses about two of V. S. Naipaul’s novels A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas and considering them as exilic novels, are to examine the strategy of the relocation of identity/subjectivity and to afford a possibility of reading Naipaul’s works through probing the dialectics between alienation/identity and spatiality and through M.M. Bakhtin’s novelistic theory.. The introductory chapter will render the brief introductions of Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, spatial theory, and M. M. Bakhtin’s theory of the novel. Chapter one will elaborate on the misemployment and representation of colonial history and the impropriety of trying to retrieve a pre-colonial culture or construct essentialism as a basic strategy and will present the dilemma of modern nationalist. Chapter two will examine the usage of nation and race, and will propose that the chaos of post-colonial politics is to be attributed to the misconception of people in the Third World. Besides, the later part of chapter two attempts to study exile and alienation in Naipaul’s novels through Bakhtin’s theory. Chapter three will explore exile and alienation by endowing the spatial reading of the powerless and the powerful. The conclusive chapter proposes that identity/subjectivity, exile, and alienation can be constructed within/on various spaces, and that the most basic way of relocating identity is neither to blindly resist foreign cultures nor to accept them completely, but to know our essences and know where we want to go first; that is, identification is not a matter of root but a matter of path. This thesis, as is customary, tends to offer a possibility of reading V. S. Naipaul’s works.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents v
English Abstract vi
Chinese Abstract viii
Acknowledgement ix
Introduction 1
I. A Brief Introduction of V. S. Naipaul 1
II. Brief Introductions of A Bend in the River and A House
for Mr. Biswas 2
III. Theoretical Skeleton 7
IV. The Structure of this thesis thesis 11
Chapter One Dilemma of Identity in a Postcolonial Historical
Background 13
I. Historical dilemma 13
II. Dilemma of identity 22
III. Disorder and exile 27
Chapter Two Historical Trap and Bakhtinian Double-Voiced
Theory 31
I. De-nation and race 31
II. Trampling the past 35
III.Root or Route 49
IV. Exile and Alientation seen in Bakhtin’s Double-Voiced
Theory 44
Chapter Three Exile and Alienation seen in space 52
I. Spatial separating power 52
II. Spatial homogenizing power 65
Conclusion 71
I. History as a language 71
II. Space as a language 73
Bibliography 77

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