Leprosy and the Utopia in The Island

doi:10.11885/j.issn.1674-5094.2017.11.12.01

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Abstract: The Island is the first novel written by Victoria Hislop. The story mainly focuses on the leper colony,an isolated island Spinalonga in Greek. Through close textual reading and post-colonialism elaboration of the connotation,development and evolution of“the Other”—the lepers,we discuss cultural connotation and symbolic significance of leprosy. The research findings indicate that the image of“lepers”evolved from the moral-bankrupt people and“the Other”to noble character and the creator of Utopia,which completely overturned people's stereotype judgement of the lepers. The author is a woman with a humanitarian spirit,who wants to eliminate people's prejudice against lepers and to build a country with peace,democracy, love and equality.The Island is an expression of such ideas.

Key words: the Other, The Island, leprosy, Postcolonial Theory

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I106.4

JIANG Tianpingyan, XIA Shuangshan. Leprosy and the Utopia in The Island[J]. 西南石油大学学报(社会科学版), 2018, 20(1): 98-103.

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