The Surgeon in The City of Dream in Light of Colonial Medicine

Abstract

Abstract: Colonial medicine, a variant of Western medicine and a reflection of colonialism in the field of medicine, became one of the important ways of colonial expansion for Western countries. The medicine on a colony is a mixture of native medicine and colonial medicine. This article offers a study of Beverly Swerling’s The City of Dreams from the perspective of postcolonial medicine with a focus on the developmental history of the surgical medicine and explores how, through such strategies as hybrid, imitation, and opposition, the characters in the novel subvert the dominance of the colonial medicine represented by the Edinburgh medicine in Netherland and England and complete the transformational process from the colonial medicine to the medicine of colony and back to native medicine again, a process that coincides with the national independence and the reconstruction of the New York City. Therefore, the history of surgical medicine and herbal medicine also witnesses the division and integration of the family, the destruction and reconstruction of the city, the national disaster, and the new construction of the nation.

Key words: Beverly Swerling, The City of Dreams, colonial medicine, national medicine, surgery

Jiang Tianping. The Surgeon in The City of Dream in Light of Colonial Medicine[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2019, 41(6): 145-156.

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