Postcolonial Borges: “Colonized Intellectual” and“Double Consciousness” in “The Nothingness of Personality”

Mehrvand, Ahad; Rastegar Naderi, Tayyebeh

doi:10.22049/jalda.2020.26924.1196

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

¹ Associate Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

² MA in English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2020.26924.1196

Abstract

Using Du Bois’s “Double Consciousness” and Fanon’s “Colonized Intellectual”, we contend that Borges’s essay “The Nothingness of Personality” can be deemed postcolonial. Our study turns to the postcolonial world of Latin America, with a special focus on Buenos Aires, addressing the alienation, hybridity, “two-ness”, and the othered state of Borges as an immigrant to Latin America after the World War I. “Double Consciousness” is arguably central to the analysis of Borges’s sense of duality in a newly adapted culture with the dilemma whether to behave in accordance with his previously adopted cultural identity, or with a new self in a new culture. Many studies have signified Borges’s attempt to establish the foundation of true Argentinean literature and a revival of cultural heritageک however, there ceases to be a significant study to encompass that Borges is like a “colonized intellectual” who talked back to the center through using the colonizer’s ideology.

Keywords

20.1001.1.2383591.2020.8.2.14.0

Main Subjects

3. Applied Literature

Article Title [Persian]

بورخس پسا استعماری: «روشنفکر استعمارشده» و «هوشیاری دوگانه» در مقالۀ«هیچ چیز از شخصیت»

Authors [Persian]

دکتر احد مهروند ¹
طیبه رستگار نادری ²

¹ دانشیار ادبیات انگلیسی، گروه زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکدۀ ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید مدنی آذربایجان، تبریز، ایران

² دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد ادبیات انگلیسی، گروه زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشکدۀ ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید مدنی آذربایجان،

Abstract [Persian]

با استفاده از دو اصطلاح »هوشیاری دوگانۀ«ویلیام ادوارد برگهارت دوبوآ و» روشنفکر استعمارشدۀ« فرانتس فانون، در این مقاله نشان میدهیم که مقالۀ»هیچ چیز از شخصیت«خورخه لوئیس بورخس رامی توان پسا استعماری دانست. مطالعۀ ما به دنیای پس از استعمار آمریکای لاتین، با تمرکز ویژه بر بوینوس آیرس، پرداختن به بیگانگی، ترکیبی، »دوتایی« و وضعیت دیگری بورخس به عنوان مهاجر به آمریکای لاتین پس از جنگ جهانی اول میپردازد.مسلماً در تحلیل حس دوگانگی بورخس در یک فرهنگ تازه اتخاذ شده، این بحث محوری مطرح است که آیا»هوشیاری دوگانۀ«بورخس باید مطابق با هویت فرهنگی اتخاذ شدۀقبلییا با خود جدید او در یک فرهنگ جدید باشد؟ بسیاری از مطالعات حاکی از تلاش بورخس برای ایجاد پایه و اساس ادبیات واقعی آرژانتین و احیای میراث فرهنگیآن است؛ با این حال، این مطالعات از این بررسی باز ماندند که بورخس مانند»روشنفکر استعمارشده ای«بود که با استفاده از ایدئولوژی استعمارگر به مرکز آنها وامی نوشت.

Keywords [Persian]

بورخس پسا استعماری
«روشنفکر استعمارشده»
«هوشیاری دوگانه»
ذهنیت خود
مقالۀ «هیچ چیز از شخصیت»

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Postcolonial Borges: “Colonized Intellectual” and“Double Consciousness” in “The Nothingness of Personality”

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Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 16October 2020Pages 241-263

Volume 8, Issue 2 - Serial Number 16
October 2020
Pages 241-263