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“What exile ever fled his own mind?”: On reading Horace in South Africa and Italy “是什么流放者逃离了自己的心灵?”——读贺拉斯在南非和意大利的作品
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i3.3
P. Anderson
The Roman poet Horace provides an unlikely-seeming source of inspiration and consolation to a writer emerging in South Africa in the late 1980s. This account essays some history of the way one poet can work on another across cultures and millennia, noting the mediating force of W.H. Auden and the significance of form over content in brokering a stylistic affection that has lasted. The essay follows also Gilbert Highet’s premise in his Poets in a Landscape, by following the author in his tracks to Italy and the valley of Horace’s Digentia, now the Licenza river. Whether the essay is about the formation of a twenty-first century echo or the recovery of a two-thousand year-old exemplum in outlandish circumstances is moot, and probably entangled.This essay in creative non-fiction expresses a long affinity for the Roman poet Quintus Hotarius Flaccus (Horace), and the circumstances of that affinity with particular reference to the author’s encounter with him across South Africa and Italy, in youth and maturity. The essay makes elliptical reference to the work of the poet but does not set out any extended critical analysis; it is more gently interested in the formation of the author’s own intellectual and poetic community with the ancient Roman. In broad canvas it problematises the reception of the so-called classics in the global South, but more pronouncedly represents the formation of a writerly and philosophical outlook in a time of transformation. The essay is preoccupied also with the endurance of place, or ideologised space, in the persistence of a canonical classic, and extends its encounter with Horace’s Sabine hills and villa to the remote-but-related landscape of the (South African) mind.
罗马诗人贺拉斯为20世纪80年代末出现在南非的一位作家提供了一个看似不太可能的灵感和安慰来源。这篇文章讲述了一位诗人在不同文化和数千年中创作另一位诗人的一些历史,指出了W.H.奥登的中介力量,以及形式对内容的重要性,在中介一种持续的风格情感方面。这篇文章也遵循了吉尔伯特·海伊特在《风景中的诗人》中的前提,跟随作者前往意大利和贺拉斯的迪根蒂亚山谷,即现在的利普扎河。这篇文章是关于21世纪回声的形成,还是关于在古怪的情况下恢复两千年前的典范,都是没有意义的,而且可能是纠缠在一起的。这篇非小说创作的文章表达了对罗马诗人昆图斯·霍塔里乌斯·弗拉库斯(贺拉斯饰)的长期喜爱,以及这种喜爱的环境,特别是作者在年轻和成熟时在南非和意大利与他相遇的经历。这篇文章略述了诗人的作品,但没有进行任何扩展的批判性分析;它更温和地对作者与古罗马人形成自己的知识和诗歌共同体感兴趣。在广阔的画布上,它对全球南方对所谓经典的接受提出了质疑,但更明显地代表了转型时期写作和哲学观的形成。这篇文章还专注于地方或意识形态空间在一部经典作品中的持久性,并将其与贺拉斯的萨宾山和别墅的相遇延伸到(南非)心灵中遥远但相关的风景。
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Thomas Pringle: “the beginning of a future that has not arrived” 托马斯·普林格尔:“一个尚未到来的未来的开始”
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i2.5
T. Voss
In his recent (2020) book, Matthew Shum offers an important rereading of the life, work and contemporary significance of Thomas Pringle, the Scottish South African poet and activist. The book’s challenge stems from three interrelated lines of energy. First is the author’s tracking of Pringle through the three locations of his activity: Scotland, the Cape, London. Second is the argument that Pringle was not from birth or early conviction the liberal champion he is remembered as in South Africa. Third, Shum warns against seeking in Pringle a model for the settler presence in post-colonial South Africa today. A comparison with two near-contemporary Scottish poets, fellow “Borderers”, who both also had colonial experience, leads this essay to a conclusion that acknowledges Shum’s account of the challenge our reading of Pringle offers to South Africa today.
在他的新书(2020)中,马修·沈对苏格兰裔南非诗人和活动家托马斯·普林格尔的生活、工作和当代意义进行了重要的重读。这本书的挑战源于三条相互关联的能量线。首先,作者通过普林格尔活动的三个地点对他进行了追踪:苏格兰、好望角和伦敦。第二种观点是,品格尔并非从出生或早年的信仰就被视为南非的自由主义斗士。第三,Shum警告说,不要在品客身上寻找后殖民时代南非定居者存在的模式。通过与两位近现代的苏格兰诗人——同为“边民”,也都有过殖民经历——的比较,本文得出了一个结论,即承认沈姆对我们阅读品格尔给今天的南非带来的挑战的描述。
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Constellated in a flash: on the dialectics of seeing (beyond stasis) in Zoë Wicomb’s work 群星闪烁:论Zoë威库姆作品中看到(超越停滞)的辩证法
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i2.1
A. van der Vlies
This essay considers the photograph as representation and metaphor in select work by Zoë Wicomb (b. 1948). It asks how the photograph functions in her prose fiction and criticism in service of a recuperation of late- and postapartheid stasis in potentially affirmative vein. Many of Wicomb’s most illuminating essays and many of her fictions – from her debut, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), to the most recent, Still Life (2020) – engage with photographs, drawing in highly suggestive ways on vivid descriptions of acts of seeing that are indebted to photographic theory. What, I ask, is constellated in the moment captured in the photograph represented in Wicomb’s fiction, as well as in the moment of engagement with the image – by her characters, or by Wicomb herself (including as critic)? How does the photograph function in Wicomb’s reimagination of the possibilities for ethical engagement with otherness beyond the stasis of South Africa’s long post-transition, post-postapartheid moment?
本文考察了Zoë Wicomb(生于1948年)作品选集中的照片作为一种表现和隐喻。它询问照片如何在她的散文、小说和批评中发挥作用,以潜在的积极态度为种族隔离后期和后种族隔离停滞状态的恢复服务。威库姆的许多最具启发性的文章和小说——从她的处女作《你不能迷失在开普敦》(1987)到最近的《静物》(2020)——都与摄影有关,以高度暗示性的方式生动地描述了视觉行为,这得益于摄影理论。我问,在威库姆小说中所呈现的照片中所捕捉到的瞬间,以及在她的角色或威库姆本人(包括作为评论家)与图像接触的时刻,都集中了什么?这张照片是如何在威科姆的重新想象中发挥作用的,在南非漫长的后过渡时期,后种族隔离时期的停滞不前之后,与他者进行道德接触的可能性?
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“There is Another Woman in the Story”: counterfactuality and re-mythification in Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu “故事里还有另一个女人”:詹妮弗·马昆比《金图》中的反现实与再神话
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i2.2
Joseph Michael Kwanya
This paper discusses how Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu (2014) undercuts the androcentric Buganda myth of creation by offering an alternative version of the narrative and unpacking the silent treatment of female figures. The discussion pays attention to how Makumbi recasts the myth as a historical event, destabilises its images and objects, and then again mythologises this event to present women in a different light where they are assigned new roles. I employ a counterfactual feminist approach to tease out how the narrative contests the linearity of both the myth and the Buganda nationalist histories that have always sought to return to the myth for purposes of a unified identity. The article argues that by counterfactually reworking a popular Buganda myth of origin, the narrative desacralises it and reveals that women in Buganda’s past have more complicated histories than what the masculinist narratives have always presented.
本文讨论了詹妮弗·马昆比(Jennifer Makumbi)的《金图》(Kintu)(2014)如何通过提供另一种叙事版本和解开对女性形象的沉默处理,来削弱以男性为中心的布干达创造神话。讨论关注的是马昆比如何将神话重塑为一个历史事件,破坏其形象和对象的稳定,然后再次将这一事件神话化,以不同的视角呈现女性,赋予她们新的角色。我采用了一种反事实的女权主义方法来梳理叙事是如何挑战神话和布干达民族主义历史的线性的,这些历史总是试图回到神话中,以实现统一的身份。这篇文章认为,通过反事实地改写一个流行的布干达起源神话,叙事对其进行了解构,并揭示了布干达过去的女性有着比男性主义叙事更复杂的历史。
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Bombs, ghosts, devils: Mhudi and the new historicism 炸弹、幽灵、魔鬼:穆胡迪与新历史主义
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i2.3
J. Henning
This paper uses the vexed publication history of Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi to try to ‘read’ various aspects of the New Historicism – a school of historiographical thought recently evoked by Zakes Mda in his writing about the novel. Taking the alleged 1976 petrol bombing that is said to have unearthed Plaatje’s lost typescript, my essay suggests that the lingering disagreements in South African literary circles over issues of the ‘correct version’ of the text – disagreements, as we will see, that rage on in the collection of commemorative essays published in 2020 entitled Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration – signal not only the fertility of the novel’s extra-textual life, but the inseparability of that life from the words on Mhudi ’s pages. I argue that conceptualizing Plaatje’s text as indistinguishable from a series of what might usually be considered ‘contextual’ (rather than ‘textual’) interruptions, deviations and anecdotes produces a disruptive set of readings.
本文利用索尔·普拉杰(Sol Plaatje)的《姆胡迪》(Mhudi)令人烦恼的出版史,试图“解读”新历史主义的各个方面——这是扎克斯·姆达(Zakes Mda)最近在写这部小说时唤起的史学思想流派。我的文章以1976年的汽油爆炸事件为例,据说这起爆炸事件挖掘出了普拉杰丢失的打字稿,表明南非文学界在文本“正确版本”问题上挥之不去的分歧——正如我们将在2020年出版的纪念文章集《索尔·普拉杰的姆胡迪:历史、批评,庆祝——不仅标志着小说文本外生活的丰富性,而且从姆胡迪页面上的文字来看,这种生活是不可分割的。我认为,将普拉杰的文本概念化为与一系列通常被认为是“上下文”(而不是“文本”)的中断、偏差和轶事无法区分,会产生一系列破坏性的解读。
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“Driven by and blinded by our desperation”: religious exploitation of vulnerable women in Amma Darko’s Not without Flowers “被我们的绝望所驱使和蒙蔽”:Amma Darko的《没有花朵》中对弱势女性的宗教剥削
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i2.4
Kimméra Pillay
As a feminist writer for social justice, Amma Darko exposes various instances of religious exploitation in Ghanaian society in the novel Not without Flowers. This study adds to the corpus of literature that critiques the androcentric organisation of patriarchal African societies, in which patriarchal and religious ideologies are used to institutionalise gender inequality. My argument in this paper is that the fear and anxiety surrounding mental illness, HIV and Aids, or other illnesses provide a fertile ground for religious exploitation and oppression of vulnerable women, as represented in Darko’s novel. My study offers an analysis of how Darko uses her literary work to challenge deeply engrained and culturally sanctioned patriarchal and religious hierarchies of gender-based dominance and cultural valorisation. The main objectives of this article are to explore the religious exploitation and/or stigmatisation of vulnerable women, the human rights violations that occur in religious institutions, as well as how mental illness is considered to be caused by a spiritual force or demonic possession in the selected text.
作为一位追求社会正义的女权主义作家,Amma Darko在小说《没有花朵》中揭露了加纳社会中各种宗教剥削的例子。这项研究补充了批评非洲父权社会以男性为中心的组织的文献,在这种组织中,父权制和宗教意识形态被用来将性别不平等制度化。我在这篇论文中的论点是,围绕精神疾病、艾滋病毒和艾滋病或其他疾病的恐惧和焦虑为宗教剥削和压迫弱势女性提供了肥沃的土壤,正如Darko的小说中所表现的那样。我的研究分析了Darko如何利用她的文学作品来挑战根深蒂固的、文化认可的父权制和基于性别的统治和文化价值的宗教等级制度。本文的主要目的是探讨对弱势妇女的宗教剥削和/或污名化,宗教机构中发生的侵犯人权行为,以及在所选文本中,精神疾病是如何被认为是由精神力量或恶魔占有引起的。
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The “Single S”: Desire for Subjectivity and Story in Zoë Wicomb’s “When the Train Comes” “单S”:Zoë威库姆《当火车来了》中的主体性欲望与故事
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i1.3
Andrew Matthews
In this essay on Zoë Wicomb’s “When the Train Comes” from the collection You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), I read the short story as  exemplary in its engagement at both the level of representation and the level of genre in the formation of the subjectivity of the central character,  Frieda Shenton. The textual strategies and rhetorical tactics – which include delay, ellipsis, postponement and stoppage – fissure narrative discourse  with its dependence on the conventions of time (story) and causality (plot) that ensures the smooth operation of a well-wrought fictional  or literary text. The rupture of the traditional components of narrative curiously unconceals the originary moment of subject formation primarily  based on Jacques Lacan’s concept of desire, the notion of the story as a unique and singular element, Deleuze and Guattari’s distinction between the  genre of the novella and the tale, and Judith Butler’s term “gender performance”.
在这篇关于Zoë威库姆的《当火车来的时候》的文章中,我把这个短篇故事作为一个典范,它在表现层面和类型层面上都参与了中心人物弗里达·申顿的主体性的形成。叙事话语依赖于时间(故事)和因果关系(情节)的惯例,从而保证了小说或文学文本的顺利运行。文本策略和修辞策略包括延迟、省略、延迟和停顿。传统叙事成分的断裂奇怪地揭示了主体形成的原始时刻,这主要基于雅克·拉康的欲望概念,故事作为一个独特和单一元素的概念,德勒兹和瓜塔里对中篇小说和故事类型的区分,以及朱迪思·巴特勒的术语“性别表演”。
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“My Version of it Matters Too”: Confession and Identity in Makhosazana Xaba’s Short Story “Behind The Suit” “我的版本也很重要”:Makhosazana Xaba短篇小说《西装背后》中的忏悔与身份
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i1.2
K. Jennings, Neuda Alves Do Lago
Makhosazana Xaba’s “Behind The Suit”, a revisioning of Can Themba’s “The Suit”, takes the form of a letter written by Mbatha, ex-lover of Philemon  (Themba’s protagonist), to his estranged daughter. In it, he tells her about their ancestors’ lives and he confesses his role in Philemon’s abuse of his  wife, Matilda, which eventually led to her suicide. In this article, we examine Mbatha’s attempt to solidify his and his daughter’s sense of self through  the act of confession – a confession that is not wholly true. Consequently, Mbatha’s false self prevails. Bearing in mind the dominance of  this false self, we pay attention to the significance of the story’s epistolary form – how it enables Mbatha to build a bridge between himself (I) and  his daughter (You). The letter also assists Mbatha in locating him and his daughter in time and place through repeated references to their ancestors   to Johannesburg and Sophiatown. We determine that, ultimately, Mbatha’s project cannot succeed due either to his unwillingness or  inability to access his true self, with the result that the meaningful connection he hopes to have created with his daughter is rendered impossible. In  the end, the onus falls on his daughter to locate and assert her own identity through the information given to her in the letter.
Makhosazana Xaba的《西装背后》是对詹·辛巴的《西装》的修订,采用了菲利蒙(辛巴的主人公)的前情人姆巴塔写给他疏远的女儿的一封信的形式。在信中,他向她讲述了他们祖先的生活,并承认自己在腓利门虐待妻子玛蒂尔达(Matilda)的事件中所扮演的角色,并最终导致她自杀。在这篇文章中,我们研究了Mbatha试图通过忏悔来巩固他和他女儿的自我意识——一种并不完全真实的忏悔。因此,玛芭塔的虚假自我占上风。考虑到这个虚假自我的主导地位,我们注意到故事书信形式的重要性——它如何使姆巴塔在他自己(我)和他的女儿(你)之间建立一座桥梁。这封信还通过反复提到他们的祖先在约翰内斯堡和索菲亚镇,帮助姆巴塔确定了他和他女儿的时间和地点。我们确定,最终,Mbatha的计划无法成功,因为他不愿意或无法接近真实的自我,结果是他希望与女儿建立的有意义的联系变得不可能。最后,他的女儿有责任通过信中提供的信息来定位和维护自己的身份。
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Review 审查
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i1.5
T. Steiner
No Abstract.
没有抽象的。
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Opportunity Cost in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru: Refinancing Efuru’s Inherited Wealth through Uhamiri Flora Nwapa的Efuru的机会成本:通过Uhamiri为Efuru继承的财富再融资
0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI: 10.4314/eia.v49i1.4
Sarah Namulondo, Christine L. Grogan
Our essay continues the critical discussion of Flora Nwapa’s treatment of the Ogene family’s involvement in the slave trade and domestic slavery in  Efuru, as first articulated in Taiwo Adetunju Osinubi’s 2014 article “Provincializing Slavery: Atlantic Economies in Flora Nwapa’s Efuru”. We agree with  Osinubi’s reading of the compromised liberation that Efuru represents and how patriarchal structures are upheld throughout most of the novel.  However, we argue that Nwapa begins to outline an important shift towards her novel’s end: from a patriarchal, colonial order back to a matriarchal,  precolonial one – at least for the heroine. We support this assertion by revisiting the relationship between Efuru and Ogea to point out  its ambivalences, paying close attention to their dynamic at the book’s conclusion. Moreover, we contend that this change is most evident when  Efuru is chosen by Uhamiri. We maintain that the wealth Uhamiri bestows provides a way out of paternalistic structures, as it serves as an antidote  to the patriarchal inheritance by ensuring that Efuru has a source of income independent from her paternal family’s blood money. 
我们的文章继续对Flora Nwapa对待Ogene家族参与埃夫鲁奴隶贸易和国内奴隶制的方式进行批判性讨论,正如Taiwo Adetunju Osinubi 2014年的文章《将奴隶制社会化:Flora Nwapa埃夫鲁的大西洋经济》中首次阐述的那样。我们同意奥西努比对埃夫鲁所代表的妥协解放的解读,以及父权结构在小说的大部分内容中是如何得到维护的。然而,我们认为,纳瓦帕开始勾勒出她小说结局的一个重要转变:从父权制的殖民秩序回到母系制的前殖民秩序——至少对女主人公来说是这样。我们通过重新审视Efuru和Ogea之间的关系来支持这一论断,以指出其矛盾之处,并在书的结尾密切关注他们的动态。此外,我们认为,当乌哈米里选择埃夫鲁时,这种变化最为明显。我们坚持认为,乌哈米里赋予的财富提供了一条摆脱家长式结构的途径,因为它通过确保埃夫鲁拥有独立于其父系血债的收入来源,成为父权制遗产的解药。
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