Rodante van der Waal, Kim Schoof, Aukje van Rooden
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Abstract Clarice Lispector has been studied thoroughly against the backdrop of Western ontology and feminism, but she has not often been read in relation to postcolonial theory and Black studies. Yet, their critique of coloniality and the radicality with which they conceive of a different world, can provide a fitting frame for understanding what is at stake in Lispector’s thought. When put in dialogue with the work of Édouard Glissant and Denise Ferreira da Silva, Lispector makes a key contribution to the reconfiguration of the relation between the subject and the world that can be understood as an attempt to, echoing Sylvia Wynter, “unsettle the coloniality of being.” Where Glissant effectuates “creolization” and Silva a “hacking” of the subject, Lispector attempts to transgress our colonial relation to the world through a reconfiguration of fertility. In our study of The Passion According to G.H., supported by fragments from the Chronicles, we show: (1) how the passion of G.H., is the passion of a specifically colonial subject; (2) how fertility is an essential link between subjectivity and coloniality, ensuring an atavistic chain of filiation and hence the continuation of a colonially dominated world; and (3) how Lispector reconfigures fertility as a possibility of being deeply affected by the world, so much so that the colonial subject perishes and the chain of filiation is disrupted. As a consequence, we argue that Lispector’s project must not primarily be understood as ontological or in search of pre-discursivity, but as concerned with the revolutionary question of dismantling the colonial subject and its world in order to open up a potential of life otherwise.
克拉丽斯·利斯佩克特在西方本体论和女性主义的背景下得到了深入的研究,但很少将她与后殖民理论和黑人研究联系起来。然而,他们对殖民主义的批判以及他们对一个不同世界的激进设想,可以为理解利斯佩克托思想的利害关系提供一个合适的框架。当与Édouard Glissant和Denise Ferreira da Silva的作品对话时,利斯佩克特对主体与世界之间关系的重新配置做出了关键贡献,这可以被理解为一种尝试,呼应西尔维娅·温特,“动摇存在的殖民性”。格里桑特实现了“克里奥尔化”,席尔瓦对主题进行了“黑客化”,而利斯佩克特则试图通过对生育能力的重新配置来超越我们与世界的殖民关系。在我们对《激情》的研究中,在《编年史》片段的支持下,我们表明:(1)g.h.的激情如何成为一个特定殖民地主体的激情;(2)生育是主体性和殖民性之间的重要纽带,确保了一种返祖的血缘链,从而延续了一个殖民统治的世界;(3)利斯佩克托如何将生育重新配置为一种被世界深深影响的可能性,以至于殖民地主体灭亡,亲缘关系链被破坏。因此,我们认为,利斯佩克托的计划不能主要被理解为本体论或寻找前话语性,而是关注拆除殖民主体及其世界的革命问题,以便开辟另一种生活的潜力。
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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities was established in September 1993 to provide an international forum for vanguard work in the theoretical humanities. In itself a contentious category, "theoretical humanities" represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The journal is dedicated to the refreshing of intellectual coordinates, and to the challenging and vivifying process of re-thinking. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities encourages a critical engagement with theory in terms of disciplinary development and intellectual and political usefulness, the inquiry into and articulation of culture.