ON BORDERING IN GRAHAM GREENE’S ACROSS THE BRIDGE AND TWO GENTLE PEOPLE
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2017, Vol 301, Issue 289
Abstract
The subject of the present research is concerned with bordering perspective in Graham Greene’s short stories: Across the Bridge, and Two Gentle People. It applies the cultural approach to the study of bordering. It is confined to the cultural studies that are remarkably incorporated within the postcolonial criticism. Its relevance is to one of the prominent literary issues of the postcolonial criticism: the frontier. The politically, historically, and geographically oriented conceptions of bordering are eliminated from the discussion and application of the term of bordering. The study aims at shedding light on bordering perspective in Greene’s two short stories: the cultural perspective. This perspective contributes to uncover two characteristics of the cultural difference: contradiction and contest. The study illuminates the role of difference in constructing the world image throughout the characters’ bordering journey. This study exposes Greene’s views of certain countries as he expresses his bordering perspectives. In Across the Bridge, Greene shows two characters’ attitudes to Mexico: Mr. Calloway’s attitude and the policeman’s attitude. They express their depression of the miserable situation of Mexico and their yearning to America. Alternatively, Greene presents a character inclined to other countries. In the first story, Two Gentle People, Henry Greaves is a character who is attached to life in France and India in spite of his British origin. He is fond of the old places of these countries. Henry would have a more meaningful time with a French woman called Marie-Claire than they may have had in the past years. Yet, the story underlies the different perspectives of these characters. To conclude, Greene presents two contrastive views of two countries which are geographically, ethnically, culturally and linguistically different from each other: Mexico in one hand and India and France on the other. It reflects the character’s alienatory feelings in the two stories. It sheds light on their humanistic angle of vision of the world through their experience of border crossing.
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Mahmood M. Al Ateya
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