Anxious about a Changing World: Twenty-First Century Low Countries Gothic Novels

IF 0.4 3区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Dutch Crossing-Journal of Low Countries Studies Pub Date : 2018-11-28 DOI:10.1080/03096564.2018.1551295
Jesse van Amelsvoort
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ABSTRACT As the representation of Western modernity’s dark undercurrent, the Gothic novel has since its inception in the 1760s developed and transformed alongside that modernity. This paper looks at two contemporary Gothic novels from the Low Countries, Herman Franke’s Wolfstonen (2003) and Saskia de Coster’s Wat alleen wij horen (2015), which are occupied with contemporary globalisation and immigration to the Netherlands and Belgium. Both novels cast the apartment buildings that are central to their plots as Gothic spaces fraught with images of modern, globalised society, as well as widespread anxiety over societal cohesion in ethnically and culturally diverse cities. An interdisciplinary reading constituted by gothic and postcolonial reading practices brings to the fore new elements of the Dutch and Flemish cultural imaginary. It reveals the continuous renewal of the gothic itself, but also into the changes brought to the Low Countries as a result of globalisation and immigration. These have their effect on the construction of community, a process that is articulated in both the form and the content of the novels’ narratives. Ultimately, I argue, the gothic is put to work in these novels as a way of dealing with the anxieties about and uncertainties of a postcolonial world.
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对变化世界的焦虑:21世纪低地国家的哥特小说
作为西方现代性黑暗潜流的代表,哥特小说自18世纪60年代诞生以来,一直伴随着现代性的发展和变迁。本文着眼于来自低地国家的两部当代哥特小说,赫尔曼·弗兰克的《沃尔夫斯通恩》(2003)和萨斯奇亚·德·科斯特的《战争》(2015),这两部小说都涉及当代全球化和荷兰和比利时的移民问题。这两部小说都把作为情节中心的公寓楼塑造成哥特式空间,充满了现代全球化社会的形象,以及对种族和文化多元的城市中社会凝聚力的普遍焦虑。由哥特和后殖民时期的阅读实践构成的跨学科阅读将荷兰和佛兰德文化想象的新元素带到了前面。它揭示了哥特风格本身的不断更新,也揭示了全球化和移民给低地国家带来的变化。这些都对社区的建构产生了影响,这一过程在小说叙事的形式和内容上都得到了体现。最终,我认为,哥特在这些小说中发挥作用,是一种处理后殖民世界的焦虑和不确定性的方式。
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