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Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2023-03-29 DOI: 10.1163/26662523-02101-02000
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Housing the past: Victorian houses in neo - Victorian fiction 过去的住房:新维多利亚小说中的维多利亚式房屋
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.01
B. Kucała
As argued, among others, by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space (1958), a house which has been inhabited over a period of time becomes a composite of its physical structure and the mental space created by its residents’ thoughts, dreams and memories. This article analyses two contemporary novels in which houses as tangible manifestations of temporally remote experience provide a link to the Vic-torian past. Lauren Willig’s That Summer (2014) and Kate Beaufoy’s Another Heartbeat in the House (2015) represent the same type of neo-Victorian fiction: their plots are composed of two strands, one set in the modern age and the other in the nineteenth century, and in the course of each story parallels and conver-gences are revealed between the two ages and the two casts of characters. The article argues that both novels are also typical “romances of the archive” – as defined by Suzanne Keen (2001) − in which the ma-terial legacy of the past triggers a personally motivated inquiry, leading contemporary characters to un-cover certain bygone mysteries, and, crucially, to recognise the past’s continuing appeal and relevance.
正如加斯顿·巴舍拉在《空间的诗学》(1958)中所论述的那样,一所居住了一段时间的房子变成了它的物理结构和由居住者的思想、梦想和记忆所创造的精神空间的综合体。本文分析了两部当代小说,其中房屋作为时间遥远经验的有形表现,提供了与维多利亚时代过去的联系。劳伦·威利的《那个夏天》(2014)和凯特·博福伊的《房子里的另一个心跳》(2015)代表了同一类型的新维多利亚小说:它们的情节由两条线组成,一条设定在现代,另一条设定在19世纪,在每个故事的过程中,两个时代和两种角色之间的平行和融合被揭示出来。这篇文章认为,这两部小说也是典型的“档案罗曼史”——苏珊娜·基恩(Suzanne Keen, 2001)的定义——在这些小说中,过去的物质遗产引发了一种个人动机的探究,引导当代人物揭开某些过去的谜团,最重要的是,认识到过去的持续吸引力和相关性。
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Spiritual and material dimensions of home in J. M.Coetzee’s Age of Iron 库切《铁器时代》中家的精神与物质维度
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.04
K. Jęczmińska
The aim of the article is to analyse the living conditions presented in J. M. Coetzee’s novel Age of Iron with reference to differences between the white and black communities of Cape Town in South Africa. It argues that differences in the conditions of living related to social and racial divisions are also reflected in the visions of the afterlife. The protagonist of the novel, Mrs Curren, portrays white people as living in comfort and dying in old age due to natural causes. The moment of their death constitutes a transition from earthly life to spiritual or incorporeal existence. In contrast, black people die young in apartheid fights. The dismal portrayal of the destruction of black people’s housing corresponds to Mrs Curren’s naturalistic descriptions of the dead bodies of young black activists. Their death does not involve a transformation into a spirit that has shed its body; death offers no relief, since their bodies and souls remain in “African hell”.
本文的目的是分析j.m.库切的小说《铁器时代》中所呈现的生活状况,并参考南非开普敦白人和黑人社区的差异。它认为,与社会和种族分裂有关的生活条件的差异也反映在对来世的看法中。小说的主人公柯伦夫人把白人描绘成生活舒适,自然衰老的人。他们死亡的那一刻构成了从尘世生活到精神或非物质存在的过渡。相反,黑人在种族隔离斗争中英年早逝。对黑人住房遭到破坏的凄惨描写与柯伦夫人对年轻黑人积极分子尸体的自然主义描述相吻合。他们的死亡并不包括转化成一个脱离身体的灵魂;死亡并不能让人解脱,因为他们的身体和灵魂仍在“非洲地狱”中。
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The Glass Room: Housing space, time and history 玻璃屋:居住空间、时间和历史
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.02
Tereza Topolovská
This article presents The Glass Room (2009), a novel by the British author Simon Mawer set in Brno, the Czech Republic, as a unique literary portrayal of a historical period and Modernist architecture in fiction. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the novel marked a turning point in its author’s career, inspiring both theatrical and film adaptations, and, perhaps more importantly, it sparked a resurgence of interest in its model, the famous Tugendhat House, a revolutionary piece of Modernist architecture built between 1928 and 1930 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The narration of the novel is determined by the centrality of both the Landauer House and its main living space, the Glass Room, and their capacity to frame the intimate histories of the characters as well as the tumultuous social, political, and cultural developments of Central Europe. The spatial poetics of The Glass Room reflects this thematic complexity, whilst expressing the key aesthetic and ethical preoccupations of Modernist architecture and contribut-ing to the novel’s role in providing a multifaceted insight into history and architecture.
本文介绍了英国作家西蒙·莫尔的小说《玻璃屋》(2009),这部小说以捷克共和国布尔诺为背景,是小说中对历史时期和现代主义建筑的独特文学描绘。这部小说入围了布克奖(Man Booker Prize),标志着作者职业生涯的一个转折点,激发了戏剧和电影的改编,也许更重要的是,它引发了人们对其模型——著名的图根哈特大厦(Tugendhat House)的兴趣,这是路德维希·密斯·凡德罗(Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)在1928年至1930年间建造的一座革命性的现代主义建筑。小说的叙事是由兰道尔故居及其主要居住空间——玻璃室——的中心地位决定的,它们有能力构建人物的亲密历史,以及中欧动荡的社会、政治和文化发展。《玻璃屋》的空间诗学反映了这一主题的复杂性,同时表达了现代主义建筑的关键美学和伦理关注点,并有助于小说在提供对历史和建筑的多方面洞察方面发挥作用。
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Ireland’s “broken” homes in the novels of Tana French 塔娜·弗兰奇小说中爱尔兰的“破碎”家庭
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.03
Beata Piątek
This paper argues that Tana French effectively uses the figure of house and home in order to comment critically on the state of the nation in her Irish crime novels. The analysis focuses on three se-lected novels: The Likeness (2008), Broken Harbor (2012) and The Searcher (2020). It demonstrates that in The Likeness, French uses the historical and literary tradition of the Big House to comment on the economic and class tensions during the period of the economic boom known as the Celtic Tiger.2 In Broken Harbor, she employs the gothic mode of writing in her portrayal of the consequences of the credit crunch. And finally, in The Searcher, she debunks the myth of rural Ireland as a pastoral retreat and safe haven. The paper applies Susan Fraiman’s notions of “shelter writing” and “alternative homemakers” (2017) in order to show how French uses domestic space and domestic rituals in order to problematize gender stereo-types and undermine conservative expectations about the nuclear family.
本文认为,塔娜·弗兰奇在她的爱尔兰犯罪小说中,有效地运用了房屋和家庭的形象来批判国家的现状。分析的重点是三部精选小说:《相似》(2008)、《破碎港》(2012)和《探索者》(2020)。这表明,在《相似》中,弗伦奇运用了《大房子》的历史和文学传统,来评论被称为“凯尔特之虎”的经济繁荣时期的经济和阶级紧张关系。在《破碎港》中,她采用了哥特式的写作方式来描绘信贷紧缩的后果。最后,在《探索者》一书中,她揭穿了爱尔兰乡村是田园隐居和安全天堂的神话。本文采用了苏珊·弗雷曼(Susan Fraiman)的“庇护所写作”和“替代家庭主妇”(2017)的概念,以展示法国人如何利用家庭空间和家庭仪式来质疑性别刻板印象,并破坏对核心家庭的保守期望。
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Australia as an (in)hospitable home in Peter Carey’s A Long Way from Home (2017) 在彼得·凯里的《远道迢迢》(2017)中,澳大利亚是一个好客的家。
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.05
Barbara Klonowska
The concepts of “house” and “home” constitute two poles of experience which negotiate the space between economic and emotional safety. Associated with material well-being and personal rela-tionships, they may serve as litmus-paper tests to probe the economic and personal situation of people living on a given territory. The last to-date novel by the Australian novelist Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home (2017), takes up the issue of Australia as a metaphorical home to diverse groups of people: the white descendants of British colonisers, post-WWII survivors and immigrants, and the indigenous Aboriginal inhabitants of the continent. Employing the plot of the all-around-the-country car race, the novel shows how the land, seemingly homely and open to everybody, may be read as a palimpsest of trauma and pain, and quite inhospitable to many of its inhabitants. Referring to the concepts of the picaresque and chronotope, this article will argue that both the metaphoric and the literal meaning of the concepts of house and home are employed in the novel to disclose and discuss the internal and immigration policy of the Australia of the 1950s.
“房子”和“家”的概念构成了经济安全与情感安全之间的两个体验极点。它们与物质福利和个人关系有关,可以作为石蕊试纸,用来探测生活在特定领土上的人们的经济和个人状况。澳大利亚小说家彼得·凯里(Peter Carey)的最新一部小说《离家很远》(2017年)将澳大利亚比喻为不同群体的家园:英国殖民者的白人后裔、二战后的幸存者和移民,以及该大陆的土著居民。小说以全国范围内的汽车比赛为情节,展示了这片看似平淡无奇、向所有人开放的土地,如何被解读为创伤和痛苦的重写本,对许多居民来说,这片土地相当荒凉。本文将借鉴流浪汉和chronotope这两个概念,认为小说中运用了房屋和家庭这两个概念的隐喻和字面意义来揭示和讨论20世纪50年代澳大利亚的内部和移民政策。
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Identity and transnationalism: Narrating the Haitian - American home in selected works by Edwidge Danticat 身份与跨国主义:丹蒂卡选集中的海地裔美国人家庭叙事
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.06
M. Dudek
In contemporary discourses, the lives of migrants are often marginalised and silenced. For this reason, bringing the theme of migrants’ identities to the foreground in literary research appears to be increasingly important. This article discusses the experiences of Haitian immigrants to the US as nar-rated by the Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. I explore the theme of making a transnational home in her novel Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) and short stories from the collection Everything Inside(2019). The analysis is based on a combination of two theories: Steven Vertovec’s theory of transnation-alism and Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of narrative identity, which enable interpreting intergenerational identity changes, certain methods of cultural reproduction, and “little” cultural cross-connectedness of “family and household” (Vertovec 2009: 3-18) in the context of personal identity understood as formed through narratives. This article focuses on the transition from a Haitian home to an American one as an important part of identity-formation processes. It also views a migrant’s journey as still incomplete after coming to the US and requiring “emplotting” (De Fina 2003: 17) its fragmented events into stories. The article attempts to demonstrate intangible ways of creating a transnational home and domestic methods of narrating and negotiating one’s cultural identity in Danticat’s fiction. I claim that Danticat’s works narrate personal experiences to generate a “refigured” understanding of time and transnational ties within the family sphere.
在当代话语中,移民的生活往往被边缘化和沉默。因此,将移民身份这一主题置于文学研究的前台显得越来越重要。本文讨论了海地裔美国作家Edwidge Danticat叙述的海地移民到美国的经历。我在她的小说《呼吸、眼睛、记忆》(1994年)和短篇小说《内心的一切》(2019年)中探讨了建立跨国家庭的主题。这一分析是基于两种理论的结合:史蒂文·维尔托维奇的跨国主义理论和保罗·里科尔的叙事认同哲学,这两种理论可以解释代际认同的变化,文化复制的某些方法,以及“家庭和家庭”的“小”文化交叉联系(Vertovec 2009: 3-18)。这篇文章关注的是从海地家庭到美国家庭的过渡,这是身份形成过程的重要组成部分。它还认为移民来到美国后的旅程仍然不完整,需要“雇用”(De Fina 2003: 17),将支离破碎的事件写成故事。本文试图论证但丁小说中创造跨国家园的无形方式以及叙述和协商个人文化身份的国内方式。我认为,丹蒂卡的作品叙述了个人经历,从而对时间和家庭领域内的跨国关系产生了一种“重构”的理解。
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The monstrous feminine: Ungoliant, Shelob, and women in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth 可怕的女性:托尔金的中土世界中的Ungoliant, Shelob和女性
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2021.34.3.01
Christopher Hansen
This article seeks to provide an analysis of Tolkien’s portrayal of feminine figures by emphasizing the roles of Ungoliant and Shelob, the monstrous spiders which Tolkien codes female, and finding how these sexual and procreative beings fit into Tolkien’s theological and gender essentialist views of women, and then how this reflects on other women within Tolkien’s legendarium, arguing that far from any of Tolkien’s women being empowered, they are instead always subservient to his essentialist understandings of women, that they are biologically and intellectually usually inferior to men and have specific gendered roles in Tolkien’s very Catholic gender binary, and so his literary women are in fact not empowered but fit into his restrictive sense of gender roles between men and women.
本文试图通过强调Ungoliant和Shelob这两个被托尔金定义为女性的巨大蜘蛛的角色来分析托尔金对女性形象的描绘,并找出这些性和生殖生物是如何符合托尔金对女性的神学和性别本质主义观点的,然后这如何反映在托尔金的传奇小说中其他女性身上,认为托尔金笔下的女性远没有被赋予权力,相反,她们总是屈从于他对女性的本质主义理解,她们在生理上和智力上通常不如男性,在托尔金的天主教性别二元论中有特定的性别角色,所以他笔下的女性实际上并没有被赋予权力,而是符合他对男女性别角色的限制。
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Discontinuous homecoming and community-forging storytelling in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea 阿卜杜勒·拉扎克·古尔纳的《海边》中断断续续的返乡和社区形成故事
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2021.35.4.01
Costanza Mondo
In By the Sea, written by Abdulrazak Gurnah in 2001, the theme of the homecoming is of paramount importance. The trajectory of the main characters’ movement is fragmented and incomplete in the sense that they end up feeling at home in a foreign country rather than choosing their birthplace, Zanzibar. By referring to selected scenes from Gurnah’s narrative, the present paper aims to analyse the images of home portrayed in the novel and the discontinuous character of the homecoming it depicts. In addition, the role of storytelling is investigated so as to show its importance for two related processes: homecoming and community-forging.
在阿卜杜拉扎克·古尔纳2001年写的《在海边》中,归乡的主题是至关重要的。主要人物的运动轨迹是支离破碎和不完整的,因为他们最终在异国他乡感觉像在家里一样,而不是选择他们的出生地桑给巴尔。通过参考从古尔纳的叙述中选择的场景,本论文旨在分析在小说中描绘的家的形象和它所描绘的回家的不连续的特征。此外,本文还研究了讲故事在两个相关过程中的作用,即返乡和社区形成。
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Biopolitical Nomos and “bare life” in Arundhati Roy’s novels 阿伦达蒂·罗伊小说中的生命政治Nomos和“赤裸的生活”
Q4 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.15290/cr.2021.34.3.02
Khandakar Ashraful Islam
Biopolitics—the maneuvers and stratagems employed to regulate, manage and govern people—is one of the most contested theoretical paradigms, which deals with the relation between state politics and human lives. While Foucault links the biopolitical nomos with the oppressive practices which render the human body docile, Giorgio Agamben sheds light on the new biopolitical nomos, which applying the most draconian means, subdue people within the law. According to Agamben, the arbitrary use of such sovereign power not only robs of the constitutional rights of the individuals but also denies their rights to live. Agamben observes that under the new biopolitical nomos each individual is exposed to the threat of being treated as a Homo Sacer, whose life can be taken with impunity. Focusing on Foucault’s concept of biopolitics and applying Agamben’s concepts like “state of exception” and Homo Sacer, the present paper investigates into Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness to argue that in present-day India; the enactment of juridico-discursive power (communal riots, lynching, and violence to the lower caste) is not only denying the human rights of the minority groups but also exposing them to a “bare life.”
生物政治——用来规范、管理和治理人民的手段和策略——是最具争议的理论范式之一,它处理的是国家政治与人类生活之间的关系。当福柯将生命政治nomos与压迫实践联系在一起时,使人类身体变得温顺,乔治·阿甘本揭示了新的生命政治nomos,它应用最严厉的手段,在法律范围内征服人们。阿甘本认为,任意使用这种主权权力不仅剥夺了个人的宪法权利,而且剥夺了他们的生存权利。阿甘本观察到,在新的生命政治模式下,每个人都面临着被视为圣人的威胁,他们的生命可以不受惩罚地被夺走。本文以福柯的生命政治概念为中心,运用阿甘本的“例外状态”和“神圣者”等概念,考察了阿兰达蒂·罗伊的《小事物之神》和《极乐部》,认为在当今的印度;司法话语权的行使(社区暴动、私刑和对低种姓的暴力)不仅剥夺了少数群体的人权,而且使他们面临“赤裸的生活”。
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