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    题名: Settler Colonialism and Harte’s Frontier EcoGothic in “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”
    作者: 許立欣
    Hsu, Li-Hsin
    贡献者: 英文系
    日期: 2023-09
    上传时间: 2023-10-30 15:40:53 (UTC+8)
    摘要: The paper proposes to examine the entangled relationship between race and environment in nineteenth-century American literary tradition by looking at the gothic representation of the three vagabond characters in relation to Californian coastal landscape in Bret Harte’s “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad” (1900). Critically seen as a reworking of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Harte’s story continues the questioning of the civilization / wilderness dichotomy in Twain’s work, but the story complicates its racial-ecological dynamics by shifting the focus from a white boy and a black slave to a Chinese orphan, a Native American vagrant, and a dog, and relocating their tramping and foraging from the Mississippi river to the pine forest and marshland at the Pacific coast of a frontier town in California. Harte’s repositioning of racialized (as well as politicized) persecution at the western frontier articulates an EcoGothic allegory on a transcontinental (as well as transglobal) scale, in which a seemingly ordinary western settlement is turned from what Leo Marx considers a pastoral-industrial “middle landscape” into a liminal haunting (as well as hunting) ground. The paper examines how Harte’s account of Trinidad topographies reveals a multi-layered ecological space and a haunted Romantic landscape that unsettles environmental as well as social order, reflecting racialized political exclusions during the course of the nineteenth century through legalized policies, such as the 1830 Indian Removal Act, the 1855 Vagrancy Act, and the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act restricting the spatial mobilities of Native Americans, Chinese immigrants, and other minority groups. The paper will focus on the intersection among orientalism, settler colonialism and environmentalism, rethinking how the enmeshed race-environment relationship in Harte’s writing, informed by the social and political practices of westward expansionism and racial segregation of his time, might reveal a subtler process of ecological othering, unveiling the parasitical relationship between racial exploitation and environmental destruction.
    關聯: Studies in American Fiction, Vol.50, No.1-2, pp.97-120
    数据类型: article
    DOI 連結: https://doi.org/10.1353/saf.2023.a923096
    DOI: 10.1353/saf.2023.a923096
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