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Displacement in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names 布拉瓦约的《我们需要新名字》中的流离失所者
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2195146
J. Alexander
Abstract Displacement has been a major theme in African literature and, arguably, a central preoccupation of African diasporic fiction on migration. This article examines three intertwined levels of displacement in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (London: Vintage, 2013). The first level is the internal displacement suffered by Zimbabweans in the aftermath of Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, which was purportedly aimed at cleansing urban areas of rubbish. The second level concerns the resultant emigration of Zimbabweans to other southern African countries to escape poverty. The third is exemplified by the illegal emigration of Bulawayo’s protagonist, Darling, to the USA. I argue that the three levels of displacement are rooted in the abjection induced by political, economic, and social disintegration. The analysis reveals why the characters in We Need New Names cannot enjoy the Afropolitan identity of characters in the works of diasporic authors like Taiye Selasi and Ngozi Chimamanda Adichie. The analysis counters Helon Habila’s criticism of Bulawayo’s novel as “poverty porn” and adds context to the discourse on migration, both legal and illegal, within and out of Africa.
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Relocating a Sacred Space: From Mount Zion to the New Jerusalem in the Mystic Poetry of Rastafari 重新安置一个神圣的空间:从锡安山到拉斯塔法里神秘诗歌中的新耶路撒冷
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2188669
Renato Tomei
Abstract Biblical scriptures, holy chants and prayers, stories of conquest and destruction, pilgrimages and diaspora narratives have provided a range of perspectives related to the city of Jerusalem. Different cultures and faiths have interpreted its symbolic value and claimed belonging, conquest, ownership, and possession. Amongst these are the Rastafari, members of a spiritual movement that originated in Jamaica, who claim Davidic roots and aim for repatriation to their Promised Land, the New Jerusalem. In their vision, the sacred space of the city of Jerusalem has been relocated to Ethiopia, the land where the Ark of the Covenant has been supposedly moved to, along with the throne of Solomon. The scope of this article is to contextualise how the dynamics of Rastafari mystical poetry have redefined a physical and metaphysical space and the significance of this space as expressed through the biblical archetype of Zion/Jerusalem. The contribution focuses on the comparative textual analysis of multimedia repertoires related to the symbolic and geographical (re)location of the sacred space of Zion/Jerusalem, highlighting how the interpretation of sacred texts and historical events has impacted the spiritual geography and cross-cultural Rastafari iconography at a global level.
圣经经文,圣歌和祈祷,征服和毁灭的故事,朝圣和流散的叙述提供了一系列与耶路撒冷城有关的视角。不同的文化和信仰解释了它的象征价值,并主张归属、征服、所有权和占有。其中就有拉斯塔法里派,这是一个起源于牙买加的精神运动的成员,他们声称自己是大卫的根,并希望被遣返到他们的应许之地——新耶路撒冷。在他们的愿景中,耶路撒冷城的神圣空间被重新安置到埃塞俄比亚,据说约柜和所罗门的王位都被转移到了那里。本文的范围是将拉斯塔法里神秘主义诗歌的动态如何重新定义了一个物理和形而上学的空间,以及通过锡安/耶路撒冷的圣经原型表达的这个空间的意义置于背景中。贡献集中于与锡安/耶路撒冷神圣空间的象征和地理(重新)位置相关的多媒体曲目的比较文本分析,突出了神圣文本和历史事件的解释如何影响全球范围内的精神地理和跨文化拉斯塔法里图像学。
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Exploring Eco-Mysticism in Between Heaven and Earth: Writings on the Indian Hills 在天地之间探索生态神秘主义:在印度山上的书写
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2178170
Chhandita Das, P. Tripathi
Abstract Narrative geographies often curate human and non-human connections in space, which mark the spirit of the place. Beyond this frame, the intricate nexus between human geography, environmental mysticism, and theology has been discussed less often. This article seeks to explore the sacred hillscape of the Himalayan ranges and its contingent eco-mysticism through selected post-colonial essays in the collection Between Heaven and Earth: Writings on the Indian Hills, edited by Ruskin Bond and Bulbul Sharma (New Delhi: Speaking Tiger Books, 2022). The decolonial origin of “mysticism” can be traced to the Sanskrit word rahasya, meaning something implicit which is often engraved with the essence of religious spirituality. Across the Indian hills, the spatial network of mysticism and ecology procures an interdisciplinary crossroads with Hindu belief in the divine, which will be examined in this article through the interdisciplinary nodes of the environmental humanities. Further, the integration of Hindu mysticism with the spatial environment not only emphasises the conscious presence of sacredness in human geography, but also permeates the ethical imperative of eco-mysticism, which strives for an alternative consciousness about the contemporary ecological crisis.
摘要叙事地理学经常在空间中策划人类和非人类的联系,这标志着这个地方的精神。在这个框架之外,人文地理学、环境神秘主义和神学之间错综复杂的联系很少被讨论。本文旨在通过罗斯金·邦德和布尔·夏尔马编辑的《天地之间:印度山上的文字》(新德里:talking Tiger Books, 2022年)中精选的后殖民散文,探索喜马拉雅山脉的神圣山景及其偶然的生态神秘主义。“神秘主义”的非殖民化起源可以追溯到梵语rahasya,意思是隐含的东西,通常刻有宗教灵性的本质。在印度的山丘上,神秘主义和生态学的空间网络与印度教的神性信仰形成了一个跨学科的十字路口,这将在本文中通过环境人文学科的跨学科节点进行研究。此外,印度神秘主义与空间环境的融合不仅强调了人类地理学中神圣性的自觉存在,而且渗透了生态神秘主义的伦理必要性,它为当代生态危机寻求一种替代意识。
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Mapping Ethiopia’s Ancient Spirituality and Amba Gishen: From Sacralisation to Desacralisation 描绘埃塞俄比亚的古代精神和Amba Gishen:从神圣化到非神圣化
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2188668
Matteo Baraldo
Abstract Amba Gishen, a cross-shaped mountainous place in the Southern Wollo Zone of Ethiopia, has for centuries been the site of a royal medieval prison thanks to its geographical isolation on the top of an amba (flat-top mountain). The first African narrative source of the deposition of a relic at Amba Gishen is cited in one of the most sacred Christian manuscripts of Ethiopia, the Mäshafä Tefut (fifteenth century). The presence of a holy relic, the fragment of the True Cross brought here by emperor Zara Yacoq in 1446, changed the meaning of that space for the Ethiopian people. The shifting topographies, from Mountain of the Royal Family to Mount of Myrrh, metaphorically referring to the myrrh associated with the Passion of Christ, have given way to a devotional focus and function, making Amba Gishen one of the holiest places in the land. As a place and site of confinement, however, the space inspired distorted imagery of Abyssinia, as conveyed by Anglophone travel narratives. The scope of the present research is to illustrate the dynamics in determining the sacralisation of spaces by their topographical morphology. This is achieved through the (re-)appropriation of natural spaces from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and through resisting the desacralisation featured in Western narratives.
Amba Gishen是埃塞俄比亚南部Wollo地区的一个十字形山区,几个世纪以来一直是中世纪皇家监狱的所在地,这要归功于它在Amba(平顶山)顶部的地理位置。在埃塞俄比亚最神圣的基督教手稿之一Mäshafä Tefut(15世纪)中引用了Amba Gishen遗迹沉积的第一个非洲叙事来源。1446年,皇帝扎拉·亚科(Zara Yacoq)将真十字架的碎片带到这里,这一神圣遗物的存在改变了埃塞俄比亚人对这个空间的意义。从皇室山到没药山的地形变化,隐喻地指的是与耶稣受难有关的没药,已经让位于虔诚的焦点和功能,使Amba Gishen成为这片土地上最神圣的地方之一。然而,作为一个禁闭的地方,这个空间激发了阿比西尼亚的扭曲形象,正如英语旅行叙述所传达的那样。本研究的范围是通过其地形形态来说明决定空间神圣化的动力学。这是通过(重新)占用埃塞俄比亚东正教Tewahedo教堂的自然空间,以及抵制西方叙事中的去神圣化来实现的。
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Theology and Topophilia in Sacred Spaces: John Bradburne’s Way of the Water 神圣空间中的神学与地形崇拜:约翰·布拉德伯恩的《水之路》
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2187162
Rosanna Masiola
Abstract John Bradburne’s (1921–1979) poetics of sacred space and sacred waters highlights a geo-specific correlation between theology and topophilia. There is a world of water enclosed within the sacred woods and mountains, rocks, grottoes, and caves where this lay Franciscan servant of God prayed and had his ecstatic visions. The topophilia and cosmology of the Canticle of the Creatures of Saint Francis underlie Bradburne’s poetic inspiration, as waters flow in profusion from fountains, lakes, rivers, wells, and pools. The scope of the present research is to chart Bradburne’s Franciscan and Marian devotion and the dynamics determining the sacralisation of spaces and lustral waters. Thus, the action of Bradburne bathing patients in the Mutemwa leper colony near Mutoko, together with the pool of water on Mount Chigona where Bradburne bathed, contextualised a space of purification, contemplation, and harmony, while the civil war raged around Mashonaland in Zimbabwe. The element of water seems to map out Bradburne’s mystic life, from his birthplace near the Lake District and Devon to Lourdes and Assisi, to India, the waters of Galilee, and the Libyan oasis—and, eventually, to the pool on Mount Chigona. Since Bradburne’s death, the Mount has become a site of pilgrimage and devotion.
约翰·布拉德伯恩(John bradburn, 1921-1979)的神圣空间与圣水诗学突出了神学与地形癖之间的地缘关联。在神圣的树林、山脉、岩石、石窟和洞穴中,有一个水的世界,在那里,这位方济各会的仆人祈祷着,并看到了他欣喜若狂的景象。圣方济各生物之歌的地形和宇宙论是布拉德伯恩诗歌灵感的基础,就像喷泉、湖泊、河流、水井和水池中大量流动的水一样。本研究的范围是绘制布拉德伯恩的方济会和玛丽安的奉献,以及决定空间和水域神圣化的动力。因此,布拉德伯恩在穆托科附近的Mutemwa麻风病人聚居区为病人洗澡的行为,以及布拉德伯恩洗澡的奇戈纳山上的水池,将一个净化、沉思和和谐的空间置于背景中,而津巴布韦马索纳兰的内战正在肆虐。水的元素似乎勾勒出了布拉德本神秘的一生,从他靠近湖区和德文郡的出生地到卢尔德和阿西西,再到印度,加利利水域和利比亚绿洲,最后到奇戈纳山上的游泳池。布拉德伯恩死后,这座山就成了朝圣和献身的地方。
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Notes on an Aesthetic 美学笔记
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2187006
Sithembele Xhegwana
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The Transdisciplinary in Literary Postcoloniality: Sacred Spaces 文学后殖民的跨学科:神圣空间
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2201119
Rosanna Masiola, Renato Tomei
This
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Locating the Sacred: “Claimed” and “Unclaimed” Spaces in John P. Clark-Bekederemo’s Remains of a Tide and Harry Garuba’s Animist Chants and Memorials 定位神圣:约翰·p·克拉克-贝基德雷莫的《潮汐的遗迹》和哈里·加鲁巴的《万物有灵论的圣歌与纪念》中“声称的”和“未声称的”空间
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2187131
Niyi Akingbe
Abstract In this article I argue that the sacred in John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo’s Remains of a Tide (Ibadan: Mosuro, 2018) and Harry Garuba’s Animist Chants and Memorials (Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2017) evokes a contestation of meanings involving “claimed” and “unclaimed” spaces of the sacred. In the analysis of these poetry collections, I apply Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory of memory, and concepts of mythology and mysticism. The unclaimed space in the two collections remains impenetrable, deified, and fetishised, but the claimed space is accessible, liberal, and imaginable. In interaction with the unclaimed space, the claimed space breaks the barriers insulating the unclaimed space to interrogate the real and unreal. The claimed space also accommodates the depiction of symbolic objects of interest by the two poets. For both Clark-Bekederemo and Garuba, landscapes, introspection, and recollection are symptomatic responses to experiences of rupture between the claimed and the unclaimed spaces. This article also illustrates that during a rupture, the unclaimed space can take on new meanings and stereotypical symbols can be reshaped. The sacred in literature is complicated by a structure that blends elements of the familiar and the strange in unusual configurations. The sacred in the two poetry collections is delineated along imagined and reimagined spaces.
在本文中,我认为John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo的《潮水的遗迹》(Ibadan: Mosuro, 2018)和Harry Garuba的《万物有灵论的圣歌与纪念》(Ibadan: Kraft Books, 2017)中的神圣唤起了一场关于神圣空间中“被宣称的”和“未被宣称的”意义的争论。在对这些诗集的分析中,我运用了Paul Ricoeur的记忆叙事理论,以及神话和神秘主义的概念。这两个系列中未被认领的空间仍然是不可逾越的、神化的、被崇拜的,但被认领的空间是可接近的、自由的、可想象的。在与无人认领空间的互动中,被认领空间打破了隔离无人认领空间的藩篱,诘问真实与虚幻。声称的空间也容纳了两位诗人对b符号对象感兴趣的描述。对于Clark-Bekederemo和Garuba来说,景观、内省和回忆都是对声称和未声称的空间之间破裂的经验的症状反应。本文还说明,在破裂过程中,无人认领的空间可以具有新的意义,刻板的符号可以被重塑。文学中的神圣被一种结构复杂化,这种结构将熟悉和陌生的元素以不寻常的形式混合在一起。这两部诗集中的神圣是通过想象和再想象的空间来描绘的。
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About the English Academy of Southern Africa 关于南非英语学院
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2203533
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Travel, Indigeneity, Ecocriticism, and the Sacred in Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines and Julia Martin’s A Millimetre of Dust 布鲁斯·查特温的《歌行》和朱莉娅·马丁的《一毫米尘埃》中的旅行、土著、生态批评和神圣
IF 0.3 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2023.2184016
G. Fincham
Abstract Julia Martin’s A Millimetre of Dust: Visiting Ancestral Sites (Cape Town: Kwela, 2008) and Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines (London: Picador/Pan Books, 1987) celebrate the worldviews of indigenous South African and Australian people respectively. Indigenous understandings of the world turn on kinship with nature rather than control of nature, and are spiritual rather than material. Martin’s travelogue refuses to privilege humans over animals, and Chatwin’s text illustrates the inseparability of the sacred and the profane in the lives of Aboriginals. Both authors present readers with mysteries: the imagined presence of vanished Khoisan people, and the invisible pathways across Australia sung into existence by the ancestors of Aboriginals. Both authors know that the stories they are telling are necessarily a collection of fragments that resist translation and appropriation. Yet thinking about these indigenous fragments can rescue us from the spiritual denials of our commercialised world. Finally, I follow Barry Lopez in suggesting ways in which readers of Chatwin’s and Martin’s texts can be inducted into a heightened ecological awareness, drawing on the senses, memory, and narrative to convert the places we know into the sacred spaces of our imagination.
朱莉娅·马丁的《一毫米尘埃:探访祖先遗址》(开普敦:Kwela出版社,2008年)和布鲁斯·查特温的《歌行》(伦敦:Picador/Pan Books出版社,1987年)分别颂扬了南非和澳大利亚土著人民的世界观。土著对世界的理解转向与自然的亲缘关系,而不是对自然的控制,是精神上的而不是物质上的。马丁的游记拒绝赋予人类高于动物的特权,查特温的文字说明了土著居民生活中神圣与世俗的不可分割性。两位作者都向读者呈现了一些谜团:想象中已经消失的科伊桑人的存在,以及土著祖先歌唱出的穿越澳大利亚的无形道路。两位作者都知道,他们讲述的故事必然是抵制翻译和挪用的碎片的集合。然而,思考这些本土碎片可以将我们从商业化世界的精神否定中解救出来。最后,我跟随Barry Lopez提出的方法,通过这些方法,查特温和马丁的文本的读者可以被引导到一种高度的生态意识中,利用感官、记忆和叙事,将我们所知道的地方转化为我们想象中的神圣空间。
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