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When nature “punches back”: a new materialist reading of Alice Perrin’s East of Suez
European Journal of English Studies ( IF 0.694 ) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 , DOI: 10.1080/13825577.2022.2044150
Éadaoin Agnew 1
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ABSTRACT

Alice Perrin’s East of Suez is a collection of short stories set in India. She immediately plunges her readers into an unfamiliar and intense world where nature is not a passive object onto which the human subject can impose its will. Instead, nature is persistently visceral, vibrant, and vital in ways that echo changing perceptions of the natural world, especially in relation to matter and energy, in the fin de siècle. These shifts presented a challenge to patriarchal and colonial authority by dismantling dominant dualist ideologies. This article briefly sets out the development of non-dualistic scientific ideas about matter and energy, before outlining how this encouraged alternative approaches to material realities, such as theosophy and yoga philosophy. Finally, I look at Perrin’s East of Suez to show how non-dualistic ways of thinking contributed to anti-imperialist ideologies by challenging colonial attitudes to the indigenous environment.



中文翻译:

当大自然“反击”:爱丽丝·佩林的《苏伊士以东》的新唯物主义解读

摘要

Alice Perrin 的《苏伊士以东》是一部以印度为背景的短篇小说集。她立即​​将读者带入一个陌生而紧张的世界,自然不是人类主体可以将其意志强加于其上的被动对象。取而代之的是,大自然始终是发自内心的、充满活力的、充满活力的,其方式反映了人们对自然世界不断变化的看法,尤其是在物质和能量方面,在世纪末. 这些转变通过瓦解占主导地位的二元意识形态,对父权和殖民权威提出了挑战。本文简要介绍了关于物质和能量的非二元科学思想的发展,然后概述了这如何鼓励了对物质现实的替代方法,例如神智学和瑜伽哲学。最后,我看一下佩林的《苏伊士东部》,以展示非二元思维方式如何通过挑战殖民者对本土环境的态度来促成反帝国主义意识形态。

更新日期:2022-04-04
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