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Invisible or inaudible? The representation of working-class immigrants in the short fiction of Junot Díaz 看不见还是听不见?朱诺·迪亚斯短篇小说中工人阶级移民的表现
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00034_1
Mónica Fernández Jiménez
In Junot Díaz’s short story collections, Drown (1996) and This Is How You Lose Her (2012), sound plays a crucial role in the representation of the experiences of the Dominican migrants in the United States who populate their pages. The collections show the liminal situations which the stories’ characters face, emphasizing their shifting acoustic environments and the pressure to shape one’s own sonic identity to meet the demands of the new language and culture. The experiences of these Dominican migrants – particularly how they are targeted by the Americans they encounter because of their accents – reflect the politics of a cultural neo-racism which differs from the discourse of colonial Otherness but which bears the same monocultural logic. As such, the stories’ migrants become silenced rather than invisible. At the same time, a belief in the power of the Other’s personal and culturally specific voice as a transformative element is emphasized in these collections with Díaz’s use of Spanish and the narrator’s persistent presence throughout all of the stories.
在Junot Díaz的短篇小说集《Drown》(1996年)和《This Is How You Lose Her》(2012年)中,声音在描述美国多米尼加移民的经历方面发挥了至关重要的作用,这些移民在他们的页面中占据了一席之地。这些作品集展示了故事人物所面临的极限处境,强调了他们不断变化的声学环境,以及塑造自己的声音身份以满足新语言和文化需求的压力。这些多明尼加移民的经历——尤其是他们如何因口音而成为美国人的目标——反映了一种文化新种族主义的政治,这种政治不同于殖民地的“他者”话语,但具有相同的单一文化逻辑。因此,故事中的移民变得沉默,而不是隐形。与此同时,迪亚斯对西班牙语的使用以及叙述者在所有故事中的持续存在,在这些作品集中强调了对他者个人和文化特定声音作为变革元素的力量的信念。
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‘J’ai mon silence’: The interrelations of sound, voice and silence in three short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner1 西尔维娅·汤森·华纳的三篇短篇小说《我爱你,寂静》中声音、声音和寂静的相互关系
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00036_1
D. Malcolm
The interrelations of sound, voice and silence in three realist short stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner from the 1940s are discussed. The stories are ‘The Proper Circumstances’, ‘The Mother Tongue’ and ‘A Breaking Wave’, all published in the posthumous collection One Thing Leading to Another (1984). Warner is shown to be deeply attuned to sound and its absence in her short fiction; these motifs are integrated with other aspects of setting and with character and narration. Both sound in the text and sound of the text are of semantic importance in her work. Warner’s presentation of silence as a source of power is remarkable, silence being usually configured as lack of agency. Warner’s deployment of silence is related to her status as a lesbian writer.
探讨了20世纪40年代西尔维娅·汤森-华纳的三部现实主义短篇小说中声音、声音和沉默的相互关系。这些故事分别是《恰当的环境》、《母语》和《巨浪》,都发表在遗作集《一件事导致另一件事》(1984)中。华纳被证明对声音及其在她的短篇小说中的缺席有着深刻的理解;这些主题与背景的其他方面以及人物和叙事融为一体。文本中的声音和文本的声音在她的作品中都具有语义重要性。华纳将沉默作为一种权力来源的表现是非凡的,沉默通常被认为是缺乏代理权。华纳对沉默的部署与她作为女同性恋作家的身份有关。
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Aural disturbance in the stories of M. R. James 詹姆斯小说中的听觉障碍
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00039_1
Tracy Hayes
The physical process of receiving and interpreting sound creates not just an auditory experience through vibrations registering within our bodies; sounds can also evoke feeling and conjure up mental images. This is especially true of acousmatic sounds, which Michel Chion describes as sounds that are heard while their source remains invisible, and such sounds are thus perfect vehicles for conveying one feeling in particular: terror. If one is not able to see what one can hear, the ensuing sense of terror is heightened. Through the use of sound, and indeed the deliberate absence of sound, M. R. James, I would like to argue, is able to concoct in his stories an atmosphere of malevolence, in which his ‘executors of unappeasable malice’ (as Michael Cox describes them) are often heard rather than seen. This emphasis on sound over image, and the manipulation of it, can be traced back to the fact that James was an oral storyteller before he was a writer of fiction, and that his tales were originally intended for a listening audience. A linguist with an ‘ear’ for language and an aptitude for mimetic brilliance, James deploys alien soundscapes and aural disturbance to create sound as a tangible element within rich sonic tapestries that feature unique aural signatures and instances of acoustic chaos. Drawing on the work of David Hendy on ‘the primalness of the auditory’, Leigh Schmidt on ‘sound corporeality’, and Jonathan Sterne on ‘acoustic culture’, this article demonstrates how James utilized auscultation (or the act of listening) to promulgate terror through auditory images as elusive shape-shifters.
接收和解释声音的物理过程不仅通过我们体内的振动创造了听觉体验;声音也能唤起感觉,唤起脑海中的画面。对于声学声音来说尤其如此,Michel Chion将其描述为一种可以听到但却看不见其来源的声音,因此这种声音是传达一种特别感觉的完美工具:恐怖。如果一个人不能看到他能听到的东西,随之而来的恐惧感就会加剧。我想说的是,通过声音的运用,实际上是故意不使用声音,詹姆斯先生能够在他的故事中营造出一种恶意的氛围,在这种氛围中,他的“无法平息的恶意的执行者”(正如迈克尔·考克斯所描述的那样)经常被听到,而不是被看到。这种对声音胜过图像的强调,以及对声音的操纵,可以追溯到这样一个事实,即詹姆斯在成为小说作家之前是一个口头讲故事的人,他的故事最初是为倾听的观众准备的。作为一名语言学家,詹姆斯拥有语言的“耳朵”和模仿才华,他利用外来的音景和听觉干扰,在丰富的声音挂毯中创造出一种有形的元素,这种元素具有独特的听觉特征和声音混乱的实例。借鉴David Hendy关于“听觉的原初性”、Leigh Schmidt关于“声音的肉体性”和Jonathan Sterne关于“听觉文化”的研究成果,本文展示了James如何利用听诊(或听的行为)通过听觉图像作为难以捉摸的变形者来传播恐惧。
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Soundscapes, evocalization and poetics of the everyday in ‘An Epiphany Tale’ by George Mackay Brown 乔治·麦凯·布朗的《顿悟故事》中日常生活的音景、唤起和诗学
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00041_1
Halszka Leleń
The article traces the orientation of ‘An Epiphany Tale’ (published in 1983) by George Mackay Brown on establishing and maintaining the contact with the reader through the development of multiple aesthetic and aural techniques that are rooted in the tradition of modernism, but expanding and transposing it to a considerable degree. Brown adopts a quasi-philosophical way of narrating a story that anticipates the contemporary existential, phenomenological and aesthetic theoretical insights. The aim of the discussion is to present the text’s semiotic patterns and relate them to the phonetic devices that contribute to what Garrett Stewart called the principle of evocalization. This helps to determine how Brown functionalizes the evoked soundscapes (as theorized by Schafer) and connects them with philosophical and anagogic orientation in reception so as to exploit the story’s thematic focus on a series of epiphanies that reveal the underlying semiotic and aesthetic aspects of ordinary existence. The short story reveals a variety of direct and indirect techniques that create an opposition between what is suggested of reality and what is demonstrated on the level of artistic, literary communication.
本文追溯了乔治·麦凯·布朗(George Mackay Brown) 1983年出版的《顿悟故事》(An Epiphany Tale)的定位,即通过植根于现代主义传统的多种美学和听觉技术的发展,建立并保持与读者的联系,但在相当程度上对其进行了扩展和转换。布朗采用了一种准哲学的叙事方式,对当代存在主义、现象学和美学的理论见解进行了预测。讨论的目的是呈现文本的符号模式,并将它们与语音设备联系起来,这些语音设备有助于Garrett Stewart所说的唤起原则。这有助于确定布朗如何将唤起的音景功能化(正如谢弗所提出的理论),并将它们与接受中的哲学和解谜取向联系起来,从而利用故事的主题重点,揭示一系列揭示普通存在的潜在符号学和美学方面的顿觉。这个短篇故事揭示了各种直接和间接的技巧,这些技巧在现实的暗示和艺术、文学交流水平上的表现之间形成了对立。
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Gothic soundscapes and rhythm in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories 埃德加·爱伦·坡短篇小说中的哥特式音景与节奏
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00040_1
Lucie Ratail
Poe’s tales, though set in decaying, gloomy and silent places, are particularly sonorous. While several sound patterns are prototypical of the gothic (gusts of wind, shutting doors, absolute silence…), others denote Poe’s interest in uncanny sound perception and illusion. Acuteness of the senses is taken to an extreme, and the sounds of death take on a new dimension. Hearing the dead as well as the living, narrators are perpetually on the brink of insanity and draw their readers into a world rhythmed by sounding clocks, hissing pendulums and unstoppable heartbeats. Binary and ternary rhythms alternate, and it is ultimately in their composition that the tales show Poe’s mastery of rhythmic patterns and of their impact on the reading experience. Self-interruptions, refrains and other rhythmic strategies give the tales a dizzying quality, keeping the reader in a perpetual state of suspense.
坡的故事虽然发生在腐朽、阴暗和寂静的地方,但却特别铿锵有力。虽然一些声音模式是哥特式的原型(阵风,关门,绝对的寂静……),但其他声音模式表明坡对离奇的声音感知和幻觉的兴趣。感官的敏锐被带到一个极端,死亡的声音呈现出一个新的维度。既能听死人也能听活人,叙述者总是处于精神错乱的边缘,把读者带入一个由滴答作响的时钟、嘶嘶作响的钟摆和不可阻挡的心跳组成的世界。二进制和三进制的节奏交替出现,最终在这些故事的构成中,爱伦·坡展现了他对节奏模式的掌握,以及这些节奏模式对阅读体验的影响。自我中断、叠句和其他节奏策略使故事令人眼花缭乱,使读者永远处于悬疑状态。
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‘Shopping List’ '购物清单'
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00017_7
Amy Lilwall, Rupert Loydell
Are the unnamed characters who write and respond to these post-it notes flatmates or lovers, friends or acquaintances? Is their relationship as fractious as this prose suggests, or does each note hold something deeper, a series of signs and indicators that gradually reveal affection between the two characters? The medium, somewhat outdated in our digital world, suggests fleeting exchanges, ships that pass in the night, all the while signalling shared space, shared responsibilities and shared lives. The implied story is as complex as the reader wants to make it, as the authors themselves use this brief epistolary form as a prompt for contemplating the mundanity of relationships, the emotional manoeuvring, assumed subtexts and back-stories of each and every moment or event. The authors are a novelist and a poet, writers each involved in their own relationships, colleagues interested in collaboration and new forms. Who is the third voice (or third and fourth voices) this dialogue has created? The story has led Lilwall and Loydell to writing the unexpected, responding to each other’s prose and shopping items in turn, surprising each other and themselves, before refining and editing the work together.
写并回复这些便利贴的未命名角色是室友还是爱人、朋友还是熟人?他们的关系是像这篇散文所暗示的那样难以调和,还是每一个音符都包含着更深层次的东西,一系列迹象和指标逐渐揭示了两个角色之间的感情?这种媒介在我们的数字世界中有些过时,它暗示着短暂的交流,夜晚经过的船只,同时发出共享空间、共享责任和共享生活的信号。隐含的故事就像读者想要的那样复杂,因为作者自己也使用这种简短的书信体形式来思考关系的世俗性、情感操纵、假设的潜台词和每一个时刻或事件的背景故事。作者是小说家和诗人,每个人都参与自己的关系,对合作和新形式感兴趣的同事。谁是这场对话创造的第三个声音(或第三和第四个声音)?这个故事让Lilwall和Loydell写下了意想不到的东西,依次回应对方的散文和购物物品,让对方和自己都感到惊讶,然后共同完善和编辑作品。
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Editorial 社论
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-04-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00010_2
A. Cox
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The short story and the bigger picture: Epiphanic analepses and violence in American literature 短篇小说与大局:美国文学中的主显节狂欢与暴力
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00002_1
Joanna Wilson-Scott
Self-sufficient and epiphanic, the analeptic short story is presented in this article as a separate type of narrative that exists within the larger novel. Distinct from the analepsis in general, such short stories can be read as autonomous in that, despite their brevity, they are self-contained and cohesive fictions, able to stand alone and still function as a whole. As this article demonstrates, analeptic short stories are revelatory and can serve to destabilize the larger narratives in which they are found. Through an analysis of violence and childhood trauma in novels such as A. M. Homes’s The End of Alice and its companion piece Appendix A, along with Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, this article offers a discussion on the ways in which analeptic short stories are pivotal elements of their wider context, and come to eclipse the larger narrative through revelation and a concise exploration of the characters and events within. Thus, it is argued that the analeptic short story is a specific type of short fiction, one that raises intriguing theoretical questions surrounding the American short story.
这篇文章将分析主义短篇小说作为一种独立的叙事类型,呈现在更大的小说中。与一般的分析不同,这类短篇小说可以被解读为自主的,因为尽管它们很简短,但它们是独立的、有凝聚力的小说,能够独立存在,仍然作为一个整体发挥作用。正如这篇文章所表明的,分析短篇小说具有启示性,可能会破坏它们所处的更大叙事的稳定。本文通过分析A.M.Homes的《爱丽丝的终结》及其姊妹篇《附录A》和Thomas Harris的《红龙》等小说中的暴力和童年创伤,探讨了刺激性短篇小说是其更广泛背景的关键元素,通过揭示和对人物和事件的简洁探索,使更大的叙事黯然失色。因此,有人认为,讽刺短篇小说是一种特定类型的短篇小说,它围绕着美国短篇小说提出了有趣的理论问题。
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Happy objects and cruel optimism in Carson McCullers’ story ‘Correspondence’ 卡森-麦卡勒斯小说《通信》中的快乐对象与残酷乐观
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00005_1
E. Bell
This article discusses American author Carson McCullers’ 1942 short story titled ‘Correspondence’, in order to consider how the unique form of the epistolary short story amplifies themes of alienation and absence. Drawing upon contemporary affect theory as well as a close reading of the story, I consider how the letters in the text can be understood as what Sara Ahmed describes as ‘happy objects’, as well as how the process of letter writing becomes exemplary of Lauren Berlant’s theorization of cruel optimism. Based on her own disappointment with letters and letter writing, McCullers’ short text problematizes the act of writing letters and demonstrates the complexities of epistolary short fiction.
本文讨论了美国作家卡森•麦卡勒斯1942年的短篇小说《书信》,以思考书信体短篇小说的独特形式如何放大异化和缺席的主题。根据当代情感理论以及对故事的细读,我思考了文本中的字母如何被理解为萨拉·艾哈迈德所描述的“快乐的物体”,以及写信的过程如何成为劳伦·贝兰特残酷乐观主义理论的典范。基于她自己对信件和信件写作的失望,麦卡勒斯的短篇小说对写信行为提出了问题,并展示了书信体短篇小说的复杂性。
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Chekhov’s fiddle: Towards a musical poetics of fiction 契诃夫的小提琴:走向小说的音乐诗学
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI: 10.1386/fict_00006_1
Alexander Creighton
This article explores what it means to listen to Chekhov and how this listening can provide a useful comparative framework for the study of time in short fiction. Since the tune of Chekhov’s stories lies partly in their strategic silences, we must attend as much to the unsaid, the musical rests, as to what is told. To theorize the meaningful relations that exist in and between a story’s silences and its words, I analyse two of Chekhov’s stories – ‘Easter Night’ and ‘The Bishop’ – with respect to two key terms: melodic setting and harmonic characterization. These terms refer to phenomena that run counter to our assumptions regarding character and setting by asserting that the movement we associate with the former and the stasis we associate with the latter are reductive. In music, movement and stasis are not always clear-cut terms; harmony and melody are interdependent and influence one another. Even in a symphonic form like the sonata, built around development, stasis plays a role; even in a song that dwells in the description of one mood or conflict, there is development and change. The language of music accommodates the possibility of several independent variables moving simultaneously through time, which, as Chudakov and Woolf notice of Chekhov’s work, is part of what makes even the shortest of his stories so profound.
本文探讨了倾听契诃夫的作品意味着什么,以及这种聆听如何为研究短篇小说中的时间提供一个有用的比较框架。既然契诃夫的故事的调子部分在于它们策略性的沉默,我们必须关注那些没有说出来的,音乐的休息,就像关注讲了什么一样。为了将故事的沉默和话语之间存在的有意义的关系理论化,我分析了契诃夫的两个故事——《复活节之夜》和《主教》——关于两个关键术语:旋律设置和和声特征。这些术语指的是与我们对角色和背景的假设背道而驰的现象,即断言与前者相关的运动和与后者相关的停滞是简化的。在音乐中,运动和静止并不总是泾渭分明的概念;和声与旋律是相互依存、相互影响的。即使在奏鸣曲这样的交响乐形式中,围绕着发展,停滞也起着作用;即使在一首描述一种情绪或冲突的歌曲中,也有发展和变化。音乐的语言容纳了几个独立变量同时随时间移动的可能性,正如丘达科夫和伍尔夫在契诃夫的作品中注意到的那样,这是契诃夫最短的故事如此深刻的部分原因。
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