摘要:Kangaroo offers ample material for the study of the complex exchange between culture and narrative.Drawing on Edward Said’s book, Beginnings: Intention and Method, this paper considers the novel’s position within a group of works of similar contextual and structural interest and traces the conditions of authority within and beyond the narrative.Said understands “authority” in connection with the “author,” “that is, a person who originates or gives existence to something” (83).He also deri...