This study analyzes Leila Aboulela's The Museum,centering on a museum visit of Sudanese student Shadia and Scottish peer Bryan,to explore ethical narratives and colonial reflections.Set amid Scotland's 1990s d...This study analyzes Leila Aboulela's The Museum,centering on a museum visit of Sudanese student Shadia and Scottish peer Bryan,to explore ethical narratives and colonial reflections.Set amid Scotland's 1990s devolution,the museum-ostensibly an ethical contact zone-perpetuates colonial myths.Through ethical literary criticism and post-colonial theory,it examines the disjunction between museum ethics and colonial practice,Shadia-Bryan's cognitive split over colonial memory,and Shadia's awakening from identity anxiety to cultural resistance,culminating in their breakup.It posits that the narrative underscores the urgency of museum decolonization,thereby contributing to the enrichment of research in the fields of post colonial literature and museum ethics.展开更多
文摘This study analyzes Leila Aboulela's The Museum,centering on a museum visit of Sudanese student Shadia and Scottish peer Bryan,to explore ethical narratives and colonial reflections.Set amid Scotland's 1990s devolution,the museum-ostensibly an ethical contact zone-perpetuates colonial myths.Through ethical literary criticism and post-colonial theory,it examines the disjunction between museum ethics and colonial practice,Shadia-Bryan's cognitive split over colonial memory,and Shadia's awakening from identity anxiety to cultural resistance,culminating in their breakup.It posits that the narrative underscores the urgency of museum decolonization,thereby contributing to the enrichment of research in the fields of post colonial literature and museum ethics.
