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DOI	10.1080/18125441.2015.1072838
	Representations of home, the orient and the other "other" in selected children's fantasy literature
	Ismail, Farah
通讯作者	Ismail, F
来源期刊	SCRUTINY2-ISSUES IN ENGLISH STUDIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
ISSN	1812-5441
EISSN	1753-5409
出版年	2016
卷号	21 期号:1 页码:3-17
英文摘要	According to Edward Said, the Orient is an imaginative geography that has provided Europe with one of its deepest and most recurring images of the Other. In English children's fantasy literature, this othered imaginative geography is often positioned in relation to a representation of home, which functions as a subject-space, in ways that instantiate the Orient's difference from and inferiority to the home-space. However, fantasy literature is a genre in which the familiar itself is made Other, transfigured by that which is understood to be impossible. This gives representations of the Orient in fantasy literature a distinctive function. As the categories of strangeness and familiarity shift between the Oriental Other and the Fantastic Other, the home-space is positioned in peculiar ways. This article will examine the way a representation of home functions in relation to both the Oriental and the Fantastic in a selection of children's fantasy literature with the aim of exploring the distinguishing characteristics of such representations in this genre. In The horse and his boy by C.S. Lewis, the fantastic enables the desirability of the magical realm of Narnia as themes of identity and home intersect in ways that encourage child readers to reject the corrupting influences of the Orient, represented by the oppressive country of Calormen. In Castle in the air by Diana Wynne Jones, a magical adventure inspired by the Arabian Nights is undermined by the values of a reworked European fairy-tale, inscribing the Orient as incapable of functioning as home, the site of the happy ending. Finally, home remains elusive in The tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin, as the pseudo-oriental culture of the Kargad desert represents a spiritual void, the dangers of which are illuminated for the Karg protagonist Tenar by Ged, a mage from the Inland Isles.
英文关键词	orientalism children's literature fantasy identity space and literature
类型	Review
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000386611900002
WOS类目	Literature
WOS研究方向	Literature
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331650
作者单位	[Ismail, Farah] Univ South Africa, Dept English Studies, Pretoria, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ismail, Farah. Representations of home, the orient and the other "other" in selected children's fantasy literature[J],2016,21(1):3-17.
APA	Ismail, Farah.(2016).Representations of home, the orient and the other "other" in selected children's fantasy literature.SCRUTINY2-ISSUES IN ENGLISH STUDIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA,21(1),3-17.
MLA	Ismail, Farah."Representations of home, the orient and the other "other" in selected children's fantasy literature".SCRUTINY2-ISSUES IN ENGLISH STUDIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 21.1(2016):3-17.

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