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Memory Book as a New Genre of Illness Writing: How a Ugandan Mother Wrote about HIV 作为疾病写作新流派的记忆书:一位乌干达母亲如何写下艾滋病毒
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969122
M. Oike
Abstract A memory book is a therapeutic document and personal testament – a workbook written, most commonly, by a HIV-positive caregiver or parent for their child, about the family’s background and the parent’s life experiences, to guide the child in the parent’s absence. In Uganda, memory projects first emerged in 1998 as public health outreach for people with HIV. They encourage writers, often agrarian widows with limited literacy, to deliver their messages to their children and the world. While reports have focused on the psychosocial support the projects provide to the beneficiaries, the content, and modes of representation in individual books, have received little attention. This article undertakes a close textual analysis of the words and images in one memory book, written in English by a subsistence farmer with seven years’ schooling. Using the frameworks of narrative therapy and illness writing, it examines how this reticent writer represents, obliquely, through textual gaps and contradictions, her painful memories of her child’s abuse by her husband and her co-wife and the difficult experience of living with HIV. This article argues that memory books as a new genre of illness writing can help less literate, less heard people with HIV write their stories in their own words and can help us, the readers, understand their experiences and lifeworlds from their perspectives.
摘要记忆书是一种治疗文件和个人遗嘱——最常见的是由艾滋病毒阳性的照顾者或父母为孩子写的关于家庭背景和父母生活经历的工作簿,用于在父母不在的情况下指导孩子。在乌干达,记忆项目于1998年首次出现,作为对艾滋病毒感染者的公共卫生宣传。他们鼓励作家,通常是识字能力有限的农业寡妇,向他们的孩子和世界传递他们的信息。虽然报告侧重于项目为受益人提供的心理社会支持,但个别书籍的内容和表现方式却很少受到关注。本文对一本由一位受过七年教育的自给农民用英语写的记忆书中的单词和图像进行了仔细的文本分析。利用叙事疗法和疾病写作的框架,它考察了这位沉默寡言的作家如何通过文本空白和矛盾,间接地表达她对孩子被丈夫和共同妻子虐待的痛苦记忆,以及感染艾滋病毒的艰难经历。这篇文章认为,记忆书作为一种新的疾病写作类型,可以帮助识字率较低、听力较低的艾滋病毒感染者用自己的话写故事,并可以帮助我们读者从他们的角度理解他们的经历和生活世界。
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引用次数: 1
COVID-19 and African Postage Stamps 新冠肺炎与非洲邮票
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969118
Damian Shaw
This paper investigates how African nations have portrayed the COVID-19 pandemic in their postage stamps. After an introduction, a timeline offering short descriptions of global editions of this theme from its inception until March 2021 will be established. The timeline will consider most issues to the above date, with the caveat that additional examples might still be found, and that more will no doubt be produced after the publication of this paper, as the pandemic persists. Major design types will then be determined based on the preceding information. Then various publications related to Africa will be discussed. These primarily concern the so-called ‘Stamperijia’ issues, produced in Lithuania, and then bogus stamps produced in the name of various African countries. Apart from the ‘Stamperijia’ and similar issues, it is noted that only two African nations have produced a COVID-19-themed stamp on the continent itself up to 20 March 2021. The implications of this will be discussed in the conclusion, with suggestions for future action.
本文调查了非洲国家如何在邮票上描绘COVID-19大流行。在介绍之后,将建立一个时间表,简要介绍该主题从开始到2021年3月的全球版本。时间表将考虑到上述日期之前的大多数问题,但需要注意的是,可能仍会找到更多的例子,而且在本文发表后,随着大流行的持续,无疑会产生更多的例子。然后将根据上述信息确定主要的设计类型。然后将讨论与非洲有关的各种出版物。这些主要涉及立陶宛生产的所谓“Stamperijia”问题,然后以非洲各国的名义生产假邮票。除了“Stamperijia”和类似的邮票外,值得注意的是,截至2021年3月20日,只有两个非洲国家在非洲大陆发行了以covid -19为主题的邮票。结论部分将讨论这方面的影响,并对今后的行动提出建议。
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引用次数: 0
Hero 英雄
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969108
David Medalie
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COVID-19: Between Panic, Racism and Social Change COVID-19:在恐慌、种族主义和社会变革之间
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1972602
Omar Moumni
Abstract The emergence of the novel coronavirus has led to panic, vulnerability and racism all over the world. This paper traces the roots and routes of the different faces and facets of such responses and explores their impact on individual and collective behaviour. It focuses on the un/ethics of self-care and collective care and the impacts these responses have had on Moroccan society. It argues that the pandemic pushed individuals to behave ‘globally’ against local and cultural norms, demonstrating new societal behaviour that is based on avarice, self-interest and self-care.
摘要新型冠状病毒的出现导致了世界各地的恐慌、脆弱和种族主义。本文追溯了这种反应的不同面和方面的根源和途径,并探讨了它们对个人和集体行为的影响。它侧重于自我护理和集体护理的联合国/道德,以及这些应对措施对摩洛哥社会的影响。它认为,疫情迫使个人在“全球”范围内违反当地和文化规范,表现出基于贪婪、利己和自我照顾的新社会行为。
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引用次数: 2
An End in Itself: Genre, Apocalypse and the Archive in Deon Meyer’s Fever 自我终结:德翁·迈耶的《狂热》中的类型、启示录和档案
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969106
D. Daniels
Abstract What are the affordances of reading apocalyptic fiction under apocalyptic conditions, when a realism without apocalypse hardly seems realistic at all? What does it mean that our attempts to imagine a future beyond capitalism seem tethered to such an apocalyptic event, and what might these attempts tell us about the present – and the past – from which they emerge? While apocalyptic fiction contends to imagine a world beyond capitalism, I argue that it is more effective at exposing the apocalyptic nature of our present. I tether my analysis to a novel as prototypical of the genre as it is exceptional: Fever by the South African crime novelist Deon Meyer. I explore this protean text through a variety of generic frames – as fictional memoir, as Bildungsroman, and as multi-genre hybrid – to consider what the post-apocalyptic genre is and can be. Ultimately, I propose that, by rerouting our readings of post-apocalyptic and other speculative fictions towards what they reveal of our present cultural logics, this literature and our readings of it hold the capacity to escape the confines of anticipatory mourning towards the politically urgent task of recognizing and reckoning with the world of late capitalism and the affective trap of capitalist realism.
在没有启示录的现实主义几乎不现实的情况下,在启示录的条件下阅读启示录小说有什么启示?我们试图想象一个超越资本主义的未来,似乎与这样一个世界末日的事件联系在一起,这意味着什么?这些尝试可能告诉我们,它们产生于现在和过去,这意味着什么?虽然启示录小说主张想象一个超越资本主义的世界,但我认为它更有效地揭示了我们现在的启示录本质。我把我的分析与一部小说联系起来,这部小说是这一类型小说的典型,因为它与众不同:南非犯罪小说家德翁·迈耶(Deon Meyer)的《狂热》(Fever)。我通过各种通用的框架来探索这种千变万化的文本——作为虚构的回忆录,作为成长小说,作为多体裁的混合体——来思考后启示录体裁是什么,可以是什么。最后,我建议,通过将我们对后世界末日和其他思辨小说的阅读转向它们揭示的我们当前的文化逻辑,这种文学和我们对它的阅读有能力摆脱预期哀悼的限制,走向认识和清算晚期资本主义世界和资本主义现实主义的情感陷阱的政治紧迫任务。
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引用次数: 2
Two Poems by Leanne Stillerman Zabow 扎博的两首诗
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969126
Leanne Stillerman Zabow
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The Plague Years: An Introduction 瘟疫年代:导言
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969092
M. Titlestad, G. Musila, Karl van Wyk
This is not the apocalypse. While some of the customary signs are there – deserted streets, masks and hazmat suits, empty supermarket shelves, hospitals and morgues overflowing – the four horsemen are not gathering at the horizon. Yet the pervasive register in reportage and on social media over the last two years has been biblical, as if eschatology dictates that we conceive of the COVID-19 pandemic as, paradoxically, an iteration of the last days. Without making the routine observation that the apocalypse is never now but always deferred, we might wonder why apocalypticism is the default script in relation to immanent disasters and future imaginaries. Until recently, we largely lacked a lexicon and grammar for global contagion, its social and political consequences and its possible containment. Bubonic plague and even Spanish flu are too remote to be serviceable in this respect and, anyway, our epidemiological knowledge has meant that our experience of COVID-19 has been distinct from historical pandemics. HIV, the cause of one of our most recent pandemics, could have been comparable were it not for the medical developments of ARV therapy, which, in many cases, has turned the disease into a chronic illness. It has also proved less likely to mutate than coronaviruses. It is glib and unethical to suggest that this absence amounts to a ‘crisis of representation,’ for the only real ‘crises’ are infection, death and bereavement, in comparison with which the struggle to come to terms with the coronavirus and its effects is at least secondary. Yet, the humanities must concern itself with representation: how the virus, its spread and its effects have been inscribed and understood existentially and mobilized politically. It is too brazen to suggest that the world will never be the same again because the pandemic has only exacerbated existing dynamics: it has fuelled populism, reinforced capitalism and increased the reach of hedge fund managers and others who profit off risk. And climate change – despite a short-lived lull in carbon emissions and a brief flourishing of wildlife in empty cities – is only becoming more evident in its effects and its outcomes increasingly predictable. Much has remained the same. But even as humanity marches unwaveringly (even triumphantly) towards its own destruction, we can acknowledge that representation is integral to both understanding and mobilization, even if not constitutive. It is in this that the current volume coheres: how has COVID-19 entered discourses; on what archives have we drawn in
这不是世界末日。虽然那里有一些常见的标志——废弃的街道、口罩和防护服、空荡荡的超市货架、医院和停尸房人满为患——但四名骑手并没有聚集在地平线上。然而,过去两年来,报告文学和社交媒体上无处不在的记录是圣经,就好像末世论表明,我们认为新冠肺炎大流行是过去几天的一次迭代,矛盾的是。如果不进行日常观察,即世界末日从来没有发生过,而是总是被推迟,我们可能会想,为什么世界末日主义是与内在灾难和未来想象相关的默认剧本。直到最近,我们在很大程度上还缺乏关于全球传染、其社会和政治后果以及可能的遏制的词汇和语法。Bubonic瘟疫甚至西班牙流感在这方面都太遥远了,不适用。无论如何,我们的流行病学知识意味着我们对新冠肺炎的经历与历史上的大流行不同。艾滋病毒是我们最近一次流行病的原因,如果不是因为抗逆转录病毒治疗的医学发展,它本可以与之相媲美,在许多情况下,这种治疗已经将疾病变成了一种慢性病。事实证明,与冠状病毒相比,它变异的可能性更小。认为这种缺席相当于“代表性危机”是油嘴滑舌和不道德的,因为唯一真正的“危机”是感染、死亡和丧亲之痛,与之相比,应对冠状病毒及其影响的斗争至少是次要的。然而,人文学科必须关注代表性:病毒、其传播及其影响是如何在存在中被记录和理解的,以及如何在政治上被动员起来的。认为世界将不再是原来的样子太厚颜无耻了,因为疫情只会加剧现有的动态:它助长了民粹主义,强化了资本主义,增加了对冲基金经理和其他从风险中获利的人的影响力。气候变化——尽管碳排放短暂减少,野生动物在空城中短暂繁殖——但其影响和结果越来越明显,越来越可预测。大部分情况保持不变。但是,即使人类坚定不移地(甚至胜利地)走向毁灭,我们也可以承认,代表性是理解和动员不可或缺的,即使不是组成性的。正是在这一点上,本卷连贯一致:新冠肺炎是如何进入话语的;关于我们查阅了哪些档案
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Active Thumbs, Confined Bodies: Eluding the ‘Insect’ in Times of the Plague 活动的拇指,封闭的身体:瘟疫时期的“昆虫”
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1972599
M. D. El Maarouf, Taieb Belghazi, Ute Fendler
This paper examines games during the COVID-19 pandemic as ontological barriers or barzakhs (singular: barzakh). The traditional meaning of barrier as separation is coupled with the Greek meaning of play as Poiesis (which may also be understood as describing acts of creation). We expand the semantics of ‘barrier’ so as to describe pandemic phenomena that exist at the points at which opposites meet: synthetic game and the world of real game; the infected and the healthy; the player and the character being played; life and death. Our perception of both home and the exterior world has changed significantly in the time of the plague. At-home gaming, far from signalling our modern confinement, enables moments in which we may challenge our imprisonment. To bring this idea home, we deploy barzakh as a moral imperative, a site of both necessary isolation and opportunities of engagement, proof of our need for both interaction and distance, a place for the enactment of our knowing and strategic waiting in relation to the pandemic. Through the term, we theorize the link between barrier and other similar categorical divides (distances, masks, gloves, borders and quarantines) which we activate during lockdown to work through our puzzlement, win the social game of civil goodness and to downplay, and ultimately survive, the pandemic of our times.
本文将新冠肺炎大流行期间的游戏视为本体论障碍或barzakhs(单数:barzakh)。障碍作为分离的传统含义与游戏作为普瓦西斯的希腊含义相结合(也可以理解为描述创造行为)。我们扩展了“屏障”的语义,以描述存在于对立相遇点的流行病现象:合成游戏和真实游戏的世界;感染者和健康者;玩家和所扮演的角色;生与死。在瘟疫期间,我们对家和外部世界的看法都发生了重大变化。在家玩游戏,远不是我们现代禁闭的信号,而是我们可以挑战禁闭的时刻。为了将这一想法带回家,我们将巴尔扎克作为一种道德义务,一个既有必要隔离又有参与机会的地方,证明我们需要互动和距离,一个制定我们对疫情的认知和战略等待的地方。通过这个术语,我们将障碍与其他类似的分类划分(距离、口罩、手套、边界和隔离)之间的联系理论化,我们在封锁期间激活这些分类划分,以克服困惑,赢得公民善意的社会游戏,淡化并最终度过我们时代的大流行病。
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引用次数: 1
Dust Explodes for All to See: Narrating the Actual in a Time of Continuous Disaster 尘埃爆炸让所有人都能看到:讲述灾难持续时期的真实情况
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969115
Kyle Allan
On 31 December 2019, scientists announced to the world the discovery of a new strain of coronavirus, COVID-19, in the city of Wuhan, China. COVID-19 soon spread globally, and by March had been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. In that same month, South Africa began a nationwide lockdown, which was divided into various stages, implemented according to the severity of the pandemic and its potential to cause extreme and rapid loss of life, particularly among South Africa’s vulnerable populations. The impact of COVID-19 further exposed all the wounds and ruptures within contemporary society. Using the poetry of Mxolisi Nyezwa and Angifi Dladla as an analytical lens, this article critiques the distinction between a recognized state of disaster and the everyday state of violence in which the marginalized live and argues that the precarious are living in a state of continuous disaster. It recognizes the vitality and power of critique through literature that engages with the actuality of the present moment. Furthermore, it foregrounds the term ‘the actual’ as preferable to ‘the real’ or ‘reality,’ framed as those terms are by realist epistemologies and the heroic materialism of real capitalism.
2019年12月31日,科学家向全世界宣布,在中国武汉市发现了一种新的冠状病毒——COVID-19。COVID-19很快在全球蔓延,到3月份,世界卫生组织宣布其为大流行。同月,南非开始在全国范围内实施封锁,根据疫情的严重程度及其可能造成的极端和迅速的生命损失,特别是在南非的弱势群体中,实施封锁分为不同阶段。新冠肺炎疫情的冲击进一步暴露了当代社会的所有创伤和裂痕。本文以Mxolisi Nyezwa和Angifi Dladla的诗歌为分析视角,批判公认的灾难状态和边缘化生活的日常暴力状态之间的区别,并认为不稳定的人生活在持续的灾难状态中。它认识到通过文学批判的活力和力量,它与当下的现实联系在一起。此外,它强调“实际”一词比“真实”或“现实”更可取,因为这些术语是由现实主义认识论和现实资本主义的英雄唯物主义所构成的。
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引用次数: 2
Some Speculative Musings on COVID-19 Affectivity, Raymond Williams’ ‘Structure of Feeling’ and Zadie Smith’s Intimations 对COVID-19“情感”的一些思辨,雷蒙德·威廉姆斯的“感觉结构”和扎迪·史密斯的“暗示”
IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/00138398.2021.1969125
R. Frenkel
Abstract Zadie Smith’s Intimations: Six Essays (2020) is a partial history of affectivity of the present, which I am speculatively positioning as a type of transnational archive of privileged pandemic-circumscribed life. Raymond Williams’ work on a ‘structure of feeling’ is useful here to understand new patterns of experience that have emerged during this pandemic. Williams uses the phrase a ‘structure of feeling’ to distinguish between formally held beliefs or ideologies, and meanings and values as they are lived and felt in relation to those beliefs or ideologies. Theories of emotion, atmosphere and feeling broadly correspond to Williams’s correlation of material, social and affective structures. Smith can help us theorize emergent affectivity from inside a pandemic-strained world through the narration of the ambiguous operational logic that her essays describe. She has created a continuum made up of affective normativities and transformative affectivities on either end, with her essays tracing the rhythms of privileged life across locales, to help us understand pandemic inspired change.
扎迪·史密斯的《暗示:六篇随笔》(2020)是一部关于当下情感的部分历史,我推测它是一种跨国档案,记录了受流行病限制的特权生活。雷蒙德·威廉姆斯(Raymond Williams)关于“感觉结构”的研究有助于理解此次大流行期间出现的新体验模式。威廉姆斯使用“感觉结构”这个短语来区分正式持有的信仰或意识形态,以及与这些信仰或意识形态相关的生活和感受的意义和价值观。情绪、氛围和感觉理论与Williams关于物质、社会和情感结构的关联理论大体一致。通过对她的文章中所描述的模棱两可的操作逻辑的叙述,史密斯可以帮助我们从一个流行病紧张的世界中将紧急情感理论化。她创造了一个由情感规范和变革情感两端组成的连续体,她的文章追踪了不同地区特权生活的节奏,以帮助我们理解流行病引发的变化。
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