“On Reading Mau Mau”

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI:10.1017/pli.2022.25
Christian Alvarado
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Abstract During the so-called “era decolonization” in Africa, few historical events held more salience than what is most commonly known as the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya (which covered the period from 1952 to 1960). This article examines not only how tropes about the nature and origins of Mau Mau were and are deployed across different semiotic landscapes, but also the ways in which their operations are made manifest through practices of reading. I argue that we should consider the idea of Mau Mau—whether it be central to a text or present a mere detail—as a catalyst through which broader claims are made, especially as they relate to the nature of history and the semiotic dimensions of the events that populate it. This article shows this through conducting a “tropology” of Mau Mau, in which the suffix -ology underscores reading its tropes as a particular mode of studying it.
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“在阅读中Mau Mau”
摘要在非洲所谓的“非殖民化时代”,很少有历史事件比肯尼亚的毛毛起义(涵盖1952年至1960年)更引人注目。这篇文章不仅考察了关于毛的性质和起源的比喻是如何在不同的符号景观中使用的,还考察了它们的操作是如何通过阅读实践来体现的。我认为,我们应该把毛的思想——无论它是文本的核心还是仅仅呈现一个细节——视为一种催化剂,通过它可以提出更广泛的主张,尤其是当它们与历史的本质和构成历史的事件的符号学维度有关时,其中后缀学强调将阅读其比喻作为一种特殊的研究模式。
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