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Imagined states: law and literature in Nigeria, 1900 – 1966 想象中的国家:1900 - 1966年尼日利亚的法律与文学
Pub Date : 2022-01-10 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2014727
W. Griswold
in South Africa. Katrak pertinently aligns the interventions and cross incubatory impulse of Pather’s curatorial projects (such as “Infecting the City” in Cape Town) with the performance research fostered by, for instance, the GIPCA (Gordon Institute for performance and Creative Art) “Great Texts/Big Questions” events which bring together scholars and artists from various fields. In Chapter 5, “A New Kind of Performance—Curation of Live Artists,” Katrak shares the abundance generated in the conception and creativity that Pather mentors on these performance platforms. Key to Pather’s vision for Live Art and Public Art is the questioning of the reception of performance events. For him, these performance insertions are about “unlocking communal spaces and giving ordinary citizens access to extraordinary art” (Pather qtd on 302). This chapter begins to pose urgent questions around what Pather identifies as the “limit of forms” in his essay entitled “The Impossibility of Curating Live Art” (2019)—the “death of the curator” (329). Pather seems poised to re-animate “new directions” for Live Art or to keep instilling a turbulence for change, captured in his words, “the curation of anarchy or crisis is a contradiction in terms” (Pather qtd on 325). This text invites the reader to absorb both the mysterious and magical aspects of Pather’s vision; to conjure up stirring practices of freedom both in the name of and in resistance to somatic thresholds that continue to retain an ambiguous presence which becomes visible, not only in performance art, but also in the lived power struggles that are enacted daily on bodies in a still revolting South Africa.
在南非。Katrak有针对性地将Pather策展项目(如开普敦的“感染城市”)的干预和交叉孵化冲动与GIPCA(戈登表演和创意艺术研究所)的“伟大文本/大问题”活动所促进的行为研究结合起来,这些活动汇集了来自不同领域的学者和艺术家。在第五章“现场艺术家的一种新的表演策展”中,Katrak分享了在这些表演平台上,父亲指导的概念和创造力所产生的丰富。帕瑟对现场艺术和公共艺术的看法的关键是对表演事件的接受的质疑。对他来说,这些表演插入是关于“打开公共空间,让普通公民获得非凡的艺术”(Pather qtd on 302)。这一章开始围绕着帕瑟在他题为“策展现场艺术的不可能性”(2019)的文章中所认定的“形式的极限”——“策展人的死亡”(329)——提出紧迫的问题。帕瑟似乎准备重新激活现场艺术的“新方向”,或者继续灌输变革的动荡,用他的话来说,“无政府状态或危机的策展是一种矛盾”(帕瑟qtd on 325)。这篇文章邀请读者吸收父亲的愿景的神秘和神奇的方面;以身体门槛的名义和抵抗的名义,召唤出激动人心的自由实践,这些门槛继续保留着一种模糊的存在,这种存在不仅在行为艺术中可见,而且在仍然令人反感的南非,每天在身体上进行的生活权力斗争中也可见。
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Not My Time to Die: A Testimony, by Yolande Mukagasana with Patrick May. Translated by Zoe Norridge. 《我的死期未到:一份证词》,作者:约兰德·穆加加纳,作者:帕特里克·梅。Zoe Norridge翻译。
Pub Date : 2022-01-10 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2016251
Catherine Gilbert
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From Surviving to Living: Voice, Trauma and Witness in Rwandan Women’s Writing 《从生存到生活:卢旺达女性写作中的声音、创伤和见证》
Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2016247
Anna Katila
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African women writing diaspora: transnational perspectives in the twenty-first century 散居海外的非洲女性写作:21世纪的跨国视角
Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2014728
Kelsey Flint-Martin
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Rethinking African literary studies as African studies and the politics of citation 重新思考非洲文学研究作为非洲研究和引用政治
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2037284
Moradewun Adejunmobi
1. But, despite its potentially disorderly features, Dawa understands pleasure as a principal contributing element to the individual’s plenitude. Consequently, he gives Sarraounia the latitude to experience it through men because “A nankhi hi bolo gnan nangbè, fara folo fin néyé” ([They will be your tools for pastime, for unwinding your body] my translation). This conceptualization resonates with the platonic thought in Philebus according to which pleasure—the good one—works to restore a state of balance. 2. The notion of comparison in Comparative Literature is a fraught one. For more on this, see Melas (2006). 3. Karim Sagna, Siba Nzatioula Grovogui, Chérif Keïta, Agnieszka Kedzierska-Manzon, Jean Dérive, and Lucy Durán. My gratitude goes to all these scholars for their intellectual generosity. 4. Chérif Keïta also acknowledges that some Mande dialects, including mine, call honey “li.” But he does not believe that the term ever served as the stem for “díya.”
1. 但是,尽管它具有潜在的无序特征,达瓦认为快乐是个人充实的主要贡献因素。因此,他给了萨拉乌尼亚通过男人来体验它的自由,因为“A nankhi hi bolo gnan nangbè, fara folo fin n”(他们将是你消遣的工具,放松你身体的工具)。这一概念与菲利伯斯的柏拉图思想产生了共鸣,根据柏拉图思想,快乐——好的快乐——可以恢复平衡状态。2. 比较文学中的比较概念是一个令人担忧的概念。有关这方面的更多信息,请参阅Melas(2006)。3.Karim Sagna, Siba Nzatioula Grovogui, chsamrif Keïta, Agnieszka Kedzierska-Manzon, Jean dsamrive和Lucy Durán。我要感谢所有这些学者在知识上的慷慨。4. chsamrif Keïta也承认一些曼德方言,包括我的方言,称蜂蜜为“li”。但他不认为这个词曾经是“díya”的词干。
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The Afrotopic Economies of Felwine Sarr 费尔文·萨尔的非洲经济
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2034099
Devin Bryson
Abstract Senegalese writer, scholar, and public intellectual Felwine Sarr has risen in international prominence over the last decade due to his contributions to a wide range of interdisciplinary, public projects of social engagement towards African global equity. This article considers these projects in light of Sarr’s disciplinary origins as an economist and his early transdisciplinary forays into literature. I argue that Sarr’s first three literary works – Dahij (2009), 105 rue Carnot (2011), and Méditations africaines (2012) – subtly interweave economic analysis with representations of African subjectivity and relationality. I show that Sarr’s early literary work critiques the existing global systems of values, symbols, and narratives that have always constructed Africa as a site of crisis, impoverishment, and exploitation. They then center intimate humanistic concerns as dissenting acts against global capitalist ideologies. This analysis shows Sarr’s literature to be emblematic of contemporary reconfigurations of African literary engagement.
塞内加尔作家、学者和公共知识分子费尔温·萨尔(Felwine Sarr)在过去十年中因其对非洲全球公平社会参与的广泛跨学科公共项目的贡献而在国际上崭露头角。本文根据萨尔作为经济学家的学科起源和他早期对文学的跨学科尝试来考虑这些项目。我认为萨尔的前三部文学作品——《Dahij》(2009年)、《105 rue Carnot》(2011年)和《msamdatitations africaines》(2012年)——巧妙地将经济分析与非洲主体性和关系的表现交织在一起。我指出,萨尔的早期文学作品批判了现有的全球价值观、符号和叙事体系,这些体系总是把非洲构建成一个充满危机、贫困和剥削的地方。然后,他们将亲密的人文关怀作为反对全球资本主义意识形态的不同行为。这一分析表明,萨尔的文学是当代非洲文学参与重组的象征。
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Introducing Notes from the Field 介绍现场笔记
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2037845
Moradewun Adejunmobi
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Whither homework or fieldwork? On díya, plaisir, and pleasure 作业和实地考察在哪里?在díya上,优雅,愉悦
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2037285
Naminata Diabate
In this issue of the Journal of the African Literature Association, we inaugurate a new series titled “Notes from the Field.” This series will provide a space and a forum for engaging with matters that affect how we practice our profession as scholars and teachers. Typically, interventions in the “Notes from the Field” section of the journal will comprise submissions from between two and six scholars on debates and questions worth considering in our line of work. Submissions for this series are expected to be between 3000 and 4000 words maximum. Although these are not typical peer reviewed articles, they must conform to the style and conventions of this journal. The Editor in Chief will from time to time invite colleagues and scholars in African literary and cultural studies to contribute to the series. The inaugural section published in this edition of the journal was based on presentations at a roundtable held at the 2021 ALA annual conference titled “African Literature as African Studies.”
在这一期的《非洲文学协会杂志》上,我们推出了一个名为“田野笔记”的新系列。这个系列将提供一个空间和论坛,让我们参与影响我们作为学者和教师如何实践我们的职业的问题。通常情况下,期刊“现场笔记”部分的介入将包括两到六位学者就我们工作中值得考虑的辩论和问题提交的意见书。本系列作品的字数不超过3000至4000字。虽然这些不是典型的同行评议文章,但它们必须符合本刊的风格和惯例。总编辑将不时邀请非洲文学和文化研究领域的同事和学者为这个系列撰稿。这一期杂志的创刊号是根据在2021年美国文学协会(ALA)年会上举行的圆桌会议上的发言写成的,主题是“作为非洲研究的非洲文学”。
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Nelson Mandela as poetic trope 纳尔逊·曼德拉是一个诗意的比喻
Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2022.2026149
S. Lewis
Abstract Over the last fifty or sixty years, Nelson Mandela has almost certainly been the most frequently mentioned public figure in South African poetry. As with the “shape-shifting quality” (Barnard 5) of his political iconicity, so his representation in poetry has varied over time. More often than not, the meaning of “Mandela” in any given poem tells us as much about the poet’s attitudes as about Mandela the (once-)living man, but the sheer frequency of the references attests to his unique stature. This essay illustrates the range of meanings ascribed to Mandela by poets from the 1960s to the present day: the stoic embodiment of resistance during his imprisonment, the messianic figure leading his people to freedom in 1990, the potentially compromised/compromising politician following his release, and finally the revered elder trapped by his own iconicity and weighed down by the burden of public (over-)expectation. The essay concludes by suggesting that Mandela’s name will continue to be invoked in the future as a kind of touchstone of personal character, political probity, and national promise.
在过去的五六十年间,纳尔逊·曼德拉几乎是南非诗歌中被提及次数最多的公众人物。正如他的政治形象的“变形品质”(Barnard 5)一样,他在诗歌中的表现也随着时间的推移而变化。通常情况下,在任何一首诗中,“曼德拉”的含义都能告诉我们诗人对曼德拉这个(曾经)活着的人的态度,但引用的频率证明了他的独特地位。这篇文章阐述了从20世纪60年代至今,诗人赋予曼德拉的一系列含义:在他被监禁期间,他是坚忍的反抗的化身;1990年,他是带领他的人民走向自由的救世主;在他获释后,他是一个潜在的妥协/妥协的政治家;最后,他是一个受人尊敬的老人,被自己的偶像性所困,被公众(过高)期望的负担所拖累。这篇文章的结论是,曼德拉的名字将在未来继续作为一种试金石,用来衡量他的个人性格、政治诚信和国家承诺。
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The tyranny of normative hedonism in postcolonial Cameroon: literary explorations 后殖民时期喀麦隆规范享乐主义的暴政:文学探索
Pub Date : 2021-12-09 DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.2004489
H. Yosimbom
Abstract This paper explores the tyranny of normative hedonism in postcolonial Cameroon literature and argues that pleasure-seeking is tyrannical when the master’s pleasure translates into the marginalization of the subaltern population. It borrows critical perspectives from Achille Mbembe’s notion of the chaotic plurality of the postcolony. It contends that normative hedonism is a pervasive feature of Cameroonian anti-dictatorial literature. It focuses on Francis Nyamnjoh’s The Travail of Dieudonné, A Nose for Money, and Married but Available. The story in all the novels is set in the fictional land of Mimbo, ruled by a power-drunk elite, characterized by political corruption, kleptomania, and sexual excess, discussed here as examples of tyrannical normative hedonism. In Mimboland, the pleasures of power and the pain of domination are multidirectional and status-less. Reading these texts from this perspective allows the reader to explore the links between power and tyrannical pleasure-seeking as well as powerlessness.
摘要本文探讨了后殖民时期喀麦隆文学中规范享乐主义的暴政,并认为当主人的快乐转化为下层人口的边缘化时,享乐主义就是专制的。它借鉴了阿基利·姆本贝(Achille Mbembe)关于后殖民地混乱多元性的批判性观点。它认为规范性享乐主义是喀麦隆反独裁文学的普遍特征。它的重点是弗朗西斯·尼亚姆乔的《迪尤顿的痛苦》、《对钱的嗅觉》和《结婚了但可以得到》。所有小说的故事都发生在虚构的米姆博(Mimbo),由一群权力至上的精英统治,以政治腐败、盗窃癖和性过剩为特征,这里将其作为暴虐的规范享乐主义的例子进行讨论。在芬兰,权力的乐趣和统治的痛苦是多向的,没有地位。从这个角度阅读这些文本,可以让读者探索权力与暴虐的享乐以及无能为力之间的联系。
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