The Other in Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

الموضوعات

ادب

الملخص

The Great Gatsby is a canonical work of literature. It is found in most of theuniversity curricula and high school programs. In sum, it is a classic of the 1920s.Gatsby is a reflection of that period of gendered, ethnic, and racial tensions. Themain characters of the narrative are all from old white established Anglo‐Saxonbackgrounds. It is described to be about the suppression of otherness and changerequired to maintain the illusion of identity. The novel has long been noted for itsauthor’s regional obsession with the East and the West. My aim in the presentdissertation is to realize a thematic study of the novel, by looking for the waywomen, Jews, and Blacks and Orientals are placed in the position of “Other (s)” inrelation to the identity of the main characters; an identity the author identifieswith, barricades, and tries to maintain its supremacy.As the United States ended the settlement of the West with the closing ofthe Frontier, the beginning of the twentieth century required Americans to look fora new sense of manifest destiny. The twenties are renowned for their intoleranceand broad‐scale nativism. The Great Gatsby is said to be the perfect novel of theJazz Age, which mirrors its immediate issues.This dissertation is divided into four chapters. The first one is an attempt toput the novel in the context of various tensions which reflect the conservative andnativist character of the decade. The chapter also informs the reader about themajor literary orientations and current of the time. It ends with the way the novelis liable to be approached from the point of view of looking for the discourse ofOrientalism within it.Chapter II is about the demonstration of Fitzgerald’s ideal notion of maleidentity which is to be a member of Tom Buchanan’s group. Tom is the stereotypedmasculine character who is even “more of a man than” Nick. Nick refusesidentification and/or associations with women. Women for Nick/Fitzgerald areweak, irresponsible, absurd, dishonest, and destroyer.Chapter III focuses on the overt and oblique expressions of Fitzgerald’s anti‐Semitism and dislike of ethnic immigrants. Ethnic immigrants were often linkedwith the organized crime, and constituted‐by their half whiteness‐a threat to thepurity of Anglo‐Saxon identity and the homogeneity of the Nordic element. Nordicsfor Fitzgerald are responsible for “all the things that go to make civilization”, andare set‐that is my argument‐ in opposition to the Semite or Jewish immigrant whois the anti‐thesis of development.Chapter IV pays attention to the Fitzgeraldian ideal of whiteness and itssupremacy, domestic and foreign. The major threat to “civilization going to pieces”is to end by getting “intermarriage of blacks and whites”. This chapter explains theway Fitzgerald associates Gatsby with blackness, and how Gatsby reflects the“natural segregation” of the two races. However, the second half of this lastchapter is a suggestion of the study of the novel in relation to the global Westernmyth of the superiority of whiteness. Blackness in the United States of the timewas parallel to what the colonial subject meant to imperial powers. The focus is onreferences to the brotherhood with English imperialism and to the early imaginedgeographies of the rising imperial States.N.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

0b570882-e936-4874-9fda-dced379afbb6

رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

312962_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين

[{"name_ar":"Rafik Laceb","title_ar":"اعداد","title_en":"Preparation"},{"name_ar":"Riche Bouteldja","title_ar":"اشراف","title_en":"Supervision"}]

اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

The Other in Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

Riche Bouteldja

الإعداد

Rafik Laceb

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية