Jacques Derrida’s discussion entitled 'Plato’s Pharmacy' in Dissemination (1972; 1981) of the birth of writing from Plato’s Phaedrus (c. 375-365 BC) concentrates upon the inherent ambivalence of language, the inevitable epistemological dichotomy between word and object, signifier and signified. The differance he notes in the Platonic lexis pharmakon , meaning both remedy and poison, illustrates the temporality and infinite deferral of meaning which postpones presence and liberates interpretation to endless successive readings. By following the chain of linguistic significations that refuses to site the locus of meaning purely within a particular text, Derrida links the differance of pharmakon with the ambivalent characteristics of the pharmakos , the scapegoat, which like the Platonic text, possesses both insides and outsides. In Violence and the Sacred (1972), Girard argues that such a theoretical framework can be discovered in the equivocal textuality of tragic drama, this being the pervasive ambiguity of the cathartic genre. It is my contention that these deconstructive processes are clearly perceived in the sub-genre of 'revenge tragedy', and in this article I tease out the ambivalent presence of the poison/cure dialectic in three Jacobean revenge tragedies by Thomas Middleton: The Revenger’s Tragedy (1607) [1] , Women Beware Women (c. 1621), and The Changeling (1622, with Rowley). Keywords : ambivalence, pharmakos, deconstructive processes, poison, cure [1] I will not make comment on the authorship question of The Revenger’s Tragedy in this article.
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Abstract This study examines the phenomenon of language displacement in the family domain. It looks at the languages that are spoken in the families of some educated Nigerians living in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. It has been observed that Nigerian families, especially those in diaspora, do not speak their mother tongue at home, preferring to interact and socialize with their children in English. This practice results in the displacement of indigenous languages in the family domain. The study focuses on fourteen (14) Nigerian families at the University of Botswana, who are from three (3) demographically more populous language groups: Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, and two (2) comparatively demographically smaller language groups (Efik and Degema), in order to find out the languages spoken by these families and ascertain the reason(s) for language choice. The fifty (50) participants in the study were purposively sampled. Two (2) research instruments were used for data collection: the questionnaire and an interview schedule. Data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, using insights from domain analysis. The most significant finding is that native languages are being displaced in most of the homes because most parents in the study preferred to interact with their children in English. The study therefore recommends that educated Nigerian parents should give their children a decided opportunity to be bilingual in both English and the mother tongue in order not to aggravate the endangerment of Nigerian indigenous languages both
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800x600 In the English speaking world, the teaching of Shakespeare has historically been lauded as a prerequisite for cultural sophistication, and despite the 21 st Century’s post-colonially sensitive African academia, it remains compulsory on many University curricula. Shakespeare, it sometimes seems, is uniquely transcendent of Western imperialist propaganda of race and culture. Notwithstanding such naivety, when Batswana students study Shakespeare’s poetry, they encounter the confusion of culturally-inscribed root metaphor, or put another way, canonical Western literary symbolism. As the eminent postcolonial critic Edward Said argued, many of the major cultural debates of recent years depend upon deciphering the real meaning of metaphor. Focusing on the teaching of Shakespearean sonnets to Batswana students, this article seeks to interrogate the hermeneutic aporia caused by divergent cultural understandings within several specific types of conventional Western literary symbols. For instance, in the category of “the weather”, the symbolic connotations of the Shakespearean lexis “rain” are contradictory to those understood culturally by Batswana, regardless of whether it is translated into its equivalent of “pula” [rain] or “ go na ” [to rain] in the Setswana language or not. Three of the four instances of “rain” in the sonnets function as a synecdoche for bad weather and thus a symbol of life’s unhappiness – a meaning problematically antithetical to the univocal Batswana understanding of “rain” as a synecdoche for good weather, the harbinger of fertile soil, and hence a symbol of life’s blessings. The result is exegetical confusion, caused fundamentally not by the problems of translation, or even of language per se, but of cultural symbol. Keywords: Sonnet, symbolism, culture, imagery, Shakespeare, Botswana Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
{"title":"Jackal the judge: An ecocentric approach to environmental education through African narrative performance","authors":"N. Graves","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V25I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V25I1","url":null,"abstract":"800x600 In the English speaking world, the teaching of Shakespeare has historically been lauded as a prerequisite for cultural sophistication, and despite the 21 st Century’s post-colonially sensitive African academia, it remains compulsory on many University curricula. Shakespeare, it sometimes seems, is uniquely transcendent of Western imperialist propaganda of race and culture. Notwithstanding such naivety, when Batswana students study Shakespeare’s poetry, they encounter the confusion of culturally-inscribed root metaphor, or put another way, canonical Western literary symbolism. As the eminent postcolonial critic Edward Said argued, many of the major cultural debates of recent years depend upon deciphering the real meaning of metaphor. Focusing on the teaching of Shakespearean sonnets to Batswana students, this article seeks to interrogate the hermeneutic aporia caused by divergent cultural understandings within several specific types of conventional Western literary symbols. For instance, in the category of “the weather”, the symbolic connotations of the Shakespearean lexis “rain” are contradictory to those understood culturally by Batswana, regardless of whether it is translated into its equivalent of “pula” [rain] or “ go na ” [to rain] in the Setswana language or not. Three of the four instances of “rain” in the sonnets function as a synecdoche for bad weather and thus a symbol of life’s unhappiness – a meaning problematically antithetical to the univocal Batswana understanding of “rain” as a synecdoche for good weather, the harbinger of fertile soil, and hence a symbol of life’s blessings. The result is exegetical confusion, caused fundamentally not by the problems of translation, or even of language per se, but of cultural symbol. Keywords: Sonnet, symbolism, culture, imagery, Shakespeare, Botswana Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ \u0000 table.MsoNormalTable \u0000 {mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \u0000 mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \u0000 mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \u0000 mso-style-noshow:yes; \u0000 mso-style-priority:99; \u0000 mso-style-parent:\"\"; \u0000 mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; \u0000 mso-para-margin:0cm; \u0000 mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \u0000 mso-pagination:widow-orphan; \u0000 font-size:10.0pt; \u0000 font-family:\"Times New Roman\",\"serif\";}","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115970825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The paper argues that through their novels, postcolonial African writers attempt to reconstruct the myths of their nations by metho-poetically interpreting the nations’ origins, experiences and aspirations or destiny. Using the case of the Malawian novelist, James Ng’ombe, the paper observes that collectively, Sugarcane with Salt, Madala’s Children and Madala’s Grandchildren form a sequel which forges a particular national consciousness expressed as a product of political, cultural and historical experiences. In Ng’ombe’s novels, incidents convey little meaning by themselves but are purposefully punctuated by the oral tradition to re-enact mythic situations through which contemporary socio-political problems facing the African country are explored and social reality is interrogated. The novels ‘mythologize’ some historical phenomena by dramatizing significant socio-political events through folklore. By so doing, the writer recapitulates mythic events that link Malawi’s past with the present and project the future. In some cases, myth is ‘historicized’ to serve the purpose of demonstrating how the contemporary Malawian society is an adaptation and a degeneration of its traditional past. Through this kind of writing, the novelist is able to re-construct the myth of Malawi and articulate the social ideals, bemoan lack of meaningful development and provide the necessary counter-discourse to the long standing political rhetoric regarding the country’s economic and social development. Keywords : metanarrative, myth of nation-state, the oral tradition, national consciousness, motif, narrativization
文章认为，后殖民时期的非洲作家试图通过他们的小说，通过对民族的起源、经历和愿望或命运的方法诗意的阐释，重构民族的神话。本文以马拉维小说家James Ng 'ombe为例，观察到《带盐的甘蔗》、《Madala的孩子们》和《Madala的孙子们》共同构成了一个续集，形成了一种特殊的民族意识，作为政治、文化和历史经验的产物表达出来。在Ng 'ombe的小说中，事件本身传达的意义不大，但有目的地被口头传统打断，以重新制定神话情境，通过这些情境来探索非洲国家面临的当代社会政治问题，并对社会现实进行质疑。这些小说通过民间传说将重要的社会政治事件戏剧化，从而将一些历史现象“神话化”。通过这样做，作者概括了将马拉维的过去与现在联系起来并预测未来的神话事件。在某些情况下，神话被“历史化”，目的是展示当代马拉维社会是如何适应和退化其传统的过去。通过这种写作，小说家能够重建马拉维的神话，表达社会理想，哀叹缺乏有意义的发展，并为长期存在的关于国家经济和社会发展的政治言论提供必要的反话语。关键词:元叙事，民族国家神话，口头传统，民族意识，母题，叙事
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Pub Date : 2011-04-14DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65460
C. Akca
This paper examines how Alan Paton reveals the impact upon a traditional rural African community of the processes of industrialisation and urbanisation which arose out of colonialist capitalism. It focuses on the connection which Paton makes between the exploitation of the black urban migrants by the white minority, the loss of their traditional values and the social and psychological degeneration which arose out of the negation of the identity of the native as a human being. It examines Paton’s message that only through reconciliation and cooperation between the races can catastrophe be averted in South Africa, noting that Paton himself recognises that his solution leaves much to faith and human kindness. The paper examines evidence of paternalism in Paton’s attitude. In support of the idea that Paton’s solution, although well-intentioned, is too overtly Christian and over reliant on individual goodwill, the paper notes that, after a period in which Paton’s conciliatory ideas were unfashionable, they were revived in the 1990s by the integrationist government of the first black President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, but as part of a process of political change, with their Christian context transcended through assimilation into the traditional inclusive African concept of humanism, “Ubuntu”. Keywords: South Africa; colonialism; capitalism; identity
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Pub Date : 2011-04-14DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65458
Eunice Ngongkum
Drawing from the premise that African literature is largely functional, this paper aims at showing its validity in offering its readers fundamental aspects of African history. The paper argues that the very groundedness of cultural artefacts, literature inclusive, in history makes this possible. The paper will use sample texts from written African literature of the colonial and postcolonial periods to substantiate its views. It will also employ New Historicism as a critical tool in its analysis. Keywords: African literature, history, new historicism, accessing
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Pub Date : 2011-04-14DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65457
Mj Melamu
This paper attempts to show how ordinary human relationships become distorted under the influence of the racial prejudice which was the backbone of apartheid South Africa. When people are subjected for an indefinite period to policies which seek to deny the humanity of one group of people by reason of their skin colour, and to elevate another group to a position of superiority, bitterness and frustration inevitably set in and have a toxic effect on people’s relationships, particularly black-white relationships. And what could easily have developed into a healthy man-woman liaison, deteriorates to a racially-motivated violation of a white woman by a black man as an act of retribution for years of humiliation and abuse at the hands of white people. But the author, under the influence of Mandela’s Truth and Reconciliation policy, tries to point out the possibility of normal black-white relationships which rise above colour differences. Keywords: Sex, race, politics, rape, pride of motherhood, vengeance.
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{"title":"Book Review: \"The dixie medicine man\"","authors":"T. Sebina","doi":"10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65462","url":null,"abstract":"The dixie medicine man , Christian John Makgala. Bloomington, New York: iUniverse. 2010. ISBN: 978-1-4502-3537-2. pp. 470.","PeriodicalId":411071,"journal":{"name":"Marang: Journal of Language and Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129693820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-04-14DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65461
Folasade Hunsu
This paper examines the contributions of critics to the study of African autobiography. While locating it in the global criticism of the genre, it explores the major directions in the study of African autobiography since its inception. It shows how questions of origin, taxonomy, socio-political factors and histories, gender, class, and race among others have continued to draw the attention of critics in reading this tradition of autobiography. The impact of feminist criticism and its discursive strategies in redefining autobiographical boundaries and practise in African literature are also discussed. Keywords: autobiography, Africa, criticism, tradition
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Pub Date : 2010-09-01DOI: 10.4314/MARANG.V21I1.65455
L. Chongyue, G. Tiantian
The Chinese translation of English metrical poetry has a history of more than one hundred years, but there exists much controversy over how to translate English metrical verse into Chinese. Chinese translators have hitherto devised three methods to render English metrical poetry: sinolization, liberalization, and poetic form transplantation. Translators practicing the methods of sinolization and liberalization belong to the group in favor of spiritual resemblance. Translators who follow the method of poetic form transplantation belong to the group in favor of formal resemblance. It is quite obvious that the two groups have disagreement on the translation standard or guiding principle. Actually, the translation standards of the two groups can coexist, and the translation methods under the guidance of these different translation standards can coexist and complement each other. It is impractical and impossible to use one Chinese translation method or standard to guide the Chinese translation practice, and the diverse Chinese translation methods of English metrical poetry can coexist and complement each other in the foreseeable future. Keywords: English metrical poetry, Chinese translation, translation method, coexistence, complementarity
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