Postcolonial Hope and Agency as a Contestation of Ideological Utopias in Claude McKay's: Amiable with Big Teeth

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Utopian Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.5325/utopianstudies.33.3.0479
M. Jiménez
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abstract:This article analyzes Claude McKay's last novel, Amiable with Big Teeth—recently discovered in 2017—as a piece of postcolonial utopianist writing. The novel participates in an important debate on the role of utopias and utopian writing as ideological mechanisms that perpetuate colonial structures such as the nation-state. Through a critique of the Popular Front project in the black community of 1930s Harlem, Amiable with Big Teeth vindicates local knowledges and the assessment of the specific conditions of the present—ever-changing and transformable—in the development of strategies for resistance. As such, the spiritual role of Ethiopia for the community depicted, rather than constitute yet another national utopia, fulfills the same role as it did for the Jamaican Rastafarians: it is a mechanism for group self-assertion and the promotion of self-esteem that subaltern communities need in order to achieve full agency.
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后殖民时代的希望与能动性:克劳德·麦凯《大牙齿的和蔼》中意识形态乌托邦之争
摘要:本文分析了克劳德·麦凯的最后一部小说《与大牙齿友好》,这部小说最近于2017年被发现,是一部后殖民时代的乌托邦主义作品。这部小说参与了一场关于乌托邦和乌托邦写作作为延续民族国家等殖民结构的意识形态机制的作用的重要辩论。通过对20世纪30年代哈莱姆黑人社区的“人民阵线”项目的批判,《与大牙友好》证明了当地的知识以及对当前特定条件的评估——不断变化和可转变——在制定抵抗策略的过程中是正确的。因此,埃塞俄比亚对所描绘的社区的精神作用,而不是构成另一个国家乌托邦,履行了与牙买加拉斯塔法里人相同的作用:它是一种群体自我主张和促进自尊的机制,而下层社区则需要这种机制来实现充分的能动性。
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