Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10415
T. Ndlovu
This article examines how the overwhelmingly dominant genre in The Lockdown Collection (2020), the personal essay, is an appropriate medium to capture the immediacy of the initial hard lockdown in South Africa because of its brevity and resonance. While the essays react to policies of virus containment, the loss and alteration of social conventions, they inevitably reveal the identity of each author and how that identity sits in the imagination of South Africanness. This appellation itself incorporates and complicates fraternities that are race and class based in a context of acute inequality and ubiquitous violence. The essays display an awareness of the strong relationship between these two aspects and writing about them appears as an antidote to fear and a desire for a better South Africa, as learnt from and suggested by the challenges of Covid-19. Opsomming Hierdie artikel bestudeer hoe die genre wat oorweldigend dominant is in The Lockdown Collection (2020), naamlik die persoonlike essay, 'n geskikte medium is om die onmiddellikheid van die aanvanklike streng inperking in Suid-Afrika vas te vang—vanwee die beknoptheid en weerklank daarvan. Terwyl die essays 'n reaksie op beleide van virusbekamping, die verlies en wysiging van sosiale konvensies is, word die identiteit van elke outeur uiteraard onthul. Dit wys ook hoe daardie identiteit in die verbeelding van Suid-Afrikaansheid daar uitsien. Hierdie benaming opsigself beliggaam en kompliseer gemeenskappe wat op ras en klas gebaseer is in 'n konteks van akute ongelykheid en alomteenwoordige geweld. Die essays toon 'n bewustheid van die sterk verbintenis tussen hierdie twee aspekte—en om daaroor te skryf blyk 'n teenmiddel vir vrees en 'n hunkering na 'n beter Suid-Afrika te wees, soos die uitdagings wat Covid-19 meegebring het suggereer en ons inderdaad geleer het.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10418
N. Tembo
As I write this article in mid-September 2021, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has claimed the lives of nearly 4.7 million people and over 228 million others have been infected worldwide. This article explores the poetic imaginarium of the coronavirus, focusing on how selected Malawian poets imagine the devastation wrought on human beings by the pandemic in their poetry. Specifically, it considers how selected poems in Walking the Battlefield: An Anthology of Malawian Poetry on the COVID-19 Pandemic—a book edited by Martin Juwa, William Mpina and Beaton Galafa—explore the chaos, shock and bewilderment brought on by COVID-19. I also argue that a reading of the poems allows for an opening up of a discursive debate on the hope and indomitable resilience of the human spirit when confronted by life-threatening contagions. Opsomming Terwyl ek hierdie referaat in mid-September 2021 skryf, het die ernstige akute respiratoriese sindroom koronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)-pandemie reeds die lewens van bykans 4.7 miljoen mense geëis en meer as 228 miljoen is wêreldwyd geïnfekteer. Hierdie referaat verken die poëtiese verbeeldingswêreld van die koronavirus, en fokus op gekose Malawiese digters wat in hul poësie die vernietiging wat die pandemie in mense se lewens veroorsaak, in hul verbeelding ervaar. Dit besin spesifiek oor hoe gekose gedigte in Walking the Battlefield: An Anthology of Malawian Poetry on the COVID-19 Pandemic—’n boek wat deur Martin Juwa, William Mpina en Beaton Galafa geredigeer is—die chaos, skok en verbystering verken wat deur COVID-19 teweeggebring is. Ek voer ook aan dat ’n voorlesing van die gedigte ’n beredeneerde debat moontlik maak oor die hoop en onblusbare veerkragtigheid van die menslike gees wanneer dit deur lewensbedreigende aansteeklike siektes gekonfronteer word.
当我在2021年9月中旬撰写这篇文章时，严重急性呼吸系统综合征冠状病毒(SARS-CoV-2)大流行已夺去了全球近470万人的生命，超过2.28亿人受到感染。本文探讨了冠状病毒的诗意想象，重点关注马拉维诗人如何在诗歌中想象疫情对人类造成的破坏。具体来说，它考虑了马丁·朱瓦、威廉·姆皮纳和比顿·加拉法编辑的《行走战场:关于COVID-19大流行的马拉维诗歌选集》中的诗歌如何探索COVID-19带来的混乱、震惊和困惑。我还认为，阅读这些诗可以开启一场关于人类精神在面临威胁生命的传染病时的希望和不屈不挠的韧性的话语辩论。预计2021年9月中旬，全球将出现SARS-CoV-2大流行，死亡人数为470万人次geëis或2.28亿人次wêreldwyd geïnfekteer。研究人员将其命名为verken die poëtiese verbeeldingswêreld van die koronavirus，重点关注的是在马拉维发生的埃博拉病毒，在马拉维发生的埃博拉病毒，在马拉维发生的埃博拉病毒，在马拉维发生的埃博拉病毒，在马拉维发生的埃博拉病毒，在马拉维发生的埃博拉病毒。《走在战场上:关于COVID-19大流行的马拉维诗歌选集》是一本由马丁·朱瓦、威廉·姆皮纳和比顿·加拉法合著的书，书中描述了一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱，一种混乱。这句话的意思是:“我喜欢你，我喜欢你，我喜欢你，我喜欢你，我喜欢你，我喜欢你。”
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10419
Mickias Musiyiwa
This article evaluates the contribution of digital literature in the struggle against the novel coronavirus contagion, focusing on Flight Rufaro Mlambo’s poetry of ChiNdau and English expression. Since the outbreak of the disease in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, in November 2019, and its declaration as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020, various efforts to combat the disease have been implemented at global, regional, national and institutional levels. Notable in this struggle has been the use of cyberspace to complement other non-digital fronts in fighting the seemingly elusive pathogen. Written texts, audio recordings, songs, drama and verse videos are among the multiple artistic forms posted online as anti-Covid-19 weaponry. Employing the “existence-as-war” theory, Mlambo’s verse is evaluated against this context in which the efforts to suppress the virus are theoretically interpreted in real war terms. The war’s antagonists pit governments and all local, regional and international partners on one hand and the virus, sceptics and denialists on the other. The article seeks to answer the following question: To what extent does Zimbabwe’s anti-Covid-19 digital literature serve as effective weaponry against the stubbornly mutating lethal virus? Opsomming Hierdie artikel evalueer die bydrae van digitale literatuur in die stryd teen die nuwe aansteeklike siekte, die coronavirus, met die fokus op Flight Rufaro Mlambo se digkuns van ChiNdau en Engelse uitdrukking. Sedert die siekte in November 2019 in die stad Wuhan in die Hubei-provinsie van China uitgebreek het, en die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie (WGO) dit op 11 Maart 2020 as ’n pandemie verklaar het, word verskeie pogings op globale, streeks-, nasionale en institusionele vlakke aangewend om die siekte hok te slaan. Die gebruik van die kuberruimte om ander, nie-digitale fronte aan te vul om hierdie skynbaar ontwykende patogeen te beveg, is opvallend. Geskrewe tekste, oudio-opnames, liedjies, drama- en versvideo’s is van die vele kunsvorme wat aanlyn geplaas word as wapens teen Covid-19. Die “bestaan-as-oorlog”-teorie word toegepas om Mlambo se poësie te evalueer aan die hand van hierdie konteks waarbinne die pogings om die virus te onderdruk, teoreties geïnterpreteer word in werklike oorlogsterme. Die oorlog se antagoniste durf regerings en alle plaaslike, streeks- en internasionale vennote aan die een kant aan, en die virus, skeptici en ontkenners aan die ander kant. Die artikel poog om die volgende vraag te beantwoord: In watter mate dien Zimbabwe se digitale literatuur teen Covid-19 as doeltreffende bewapening teen die dodelike virus wat onversetlik muteer?
本文评价了数字文学在抗击新型冠状病毒传染斗争中的贡献，重点是鲁法罗·姆兰博的《钦道》诗歌和英语表达。自2019年11月该疾病在中国湖北省武汉市暴发并于2020年3月11日被世界卫生组织宣布为大流行以来，在全球、区域、国家和机构各级开展了各种防治该疾病的努力。在这场斗争中，值得注意的是利用网络空间来补充其他非数字战线，以对抗这种看似难以捉摸的病原体。文字、录音、歌曲、戏剧和诗歌视频等多种艺术形式在网上发布，作为抗疫武器。采用“存在即战争”的理论，姆兰博的诗是在这样的背景下进行评价的，在这种背景下，抑制病毒的努力在理论上被解释为真正的战争。战争的对手一方是政府和所有地方、地区和国际合作伙伴，另一方是病毒、怀疑论者和否认者。这篇文章试图回答以下问题:津巴布韦的抗covid -19数字文献在多大程度上成为对抗顽固变异的致命病毒的有效武器?opsomingerdie文章评比师die by van数字文献中的die strd, teen die nuk, die冠状病毒，die焦点，Flight Rufaro Mlambo, dikuns van ChiNdau和Engelse uitdrukking。2019年11月，中国武汉疫情防控中心在湖北省武汉市武汉市设立，中国武汉疫情防控中心(WGO)将2020年11月列为“全球疫情防控中心”，全球疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心、全国疫情防控中心。“Die gebruik van Die kuberruimte”，“Die gebruik van Die kuberruimte”，“Die gebruik van Die kuberruimte”，“Die gebruik van kuberruimte”，“Die gebruik van kuberruimte”，“Die gebruik van kuberruimte”。Geskrewe tekste, oudio-opnames, liedjies, drama-甚至是versvideo，这是一种流行的流行语言，是一种流行的语言，是一种流行的语言，是一种青少年Covid-19。“bestaan-as- orloge”是一个单词，它来自拉姆博语，poësie是评估者的意思，而“Die hand”则是指评估者的意思，而“Die”是指评估者的意思，而“Die”是指病毒的意思，“Die”是指醉酒的人的意思，“Die”是指工作的人的意思geïnterpreteer。死oorlog se antagoniste durf regerings en阿莱plaaslike, streeks - en internasionale河畔vennote河畔甚至康德死亡,在死亡病毒,河畔skeptici en ontkenners死康德还多。在津巴布韦的水伴侣中，数字文献将青少年Covid-19视为青少年之间的一种疾病，青少年死于类似病毒的疾病是什么?
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10412
Terrence Musanga
This article examines the Twitter diary of Lumumba William Gerald Mutumanje, popularly known as Ace Lumumba in Zimbabwe, which chronicles his experiences of being COVID-19 positive, his recuperation and survival from the contagion. I argue that the Twitter diary attempts to create a resilient and survivor identity for Lumumba and at the same time underscores the fact that everyone is vulnerable and susceptible to the virus. The diary further complicates our understanding of a text and how meaning is generated given that meaning is no longer localised to the immediate (con)text as inferences have to be drawn from and made to other (con)texts. Twitter largely relies on intertextuality and the reader (prod-user/prod-sumer) needs to demonstrate an awareness of intertextuality if (s)he is to have a holistic appreciation of Twitter texts. Lumumba’s Twitter diary also extends debates on the role of social media and infodemics in health advocacy and community education, especially in times of COVID-19. Opsomming Hierdie artikel bestudeer die Twitter-dagboekinskrywings van Lumumba William Gerald Mutumanje, beter bekend as Ace Lumumba in Zimbabwe, waarin hy sy ervarings opteken rakende COVID-19-positief wees, sy herstel en sy oorlewing van die siekte. Ek voer aan dat die Twitter-dagboek poog om 'n lewenskragtige oorlewende-identiteit vir Lumumba te skep. Dit onderstreep ook die feit dat almal weerloos en vatbaar vir die virus is. Verder kompliseer die dagboek ons begrip van 'n teks, en hoe betekenis geskep word gegewe dat betekenis nie meer gelokaliseer is tot die onmiddellike (kon)teks nie, aangesien gevolgtrekkings gemaak moet word op grond van ander (kon)tekste. Twitter steun grootliks op intertekstualiteit en die leser (prod-gebruiker/prod-verbruiker) moet 'n bewustheid van intertekstualiteit demonstreer om 'n holistiese begrip van Twitter-tekste te kan hê. Lumumba se Twitter-dagboek dien ook as uitbreiding van debatte oor die rol van sosiale media en infodemia in aanbevelings oor gesondheid en gemeenskapsopvoeding—veral in die tyd van COVID-19.
本文检视卢蒙巴(Lumumba William Gerald Mutumanje)的推特日记，他在津巴布韦被称为Ace Lumumba，记录他感染新冠病毒的经历、康复和生存。我认为，推特日记试图为卢蒙巴创造一种坚韧的幸存者身份，同时强调每个人都容易受到病毒的伤害。日记进一步复杂化了我们对文本的理解，以及意义是如何产生的，因为意义不再局限于直接文本，而是必须从其他文本中得出推断。Twitter很大程度上依赖于互文性，如果读者(产品-用户/产品-消费者)想要对Twitter文本有一个整体的理解，就需要表现出对互文性的意识。卢蒙巴的推特日记还扩展了关于社交媒体和信息流行病在卫生宣传和社区教育中的作用的辩论，特别是在2019冠状病毒病期间。威廉·杰拉尔德·穆图曼杰(William Gerald Mutumanje)，在津巴布韦被称为埃斯·卢蒙巴(Ace Lumumba)，他在一份声明中说，他对津巴布韦的新冠病毒阳性周表示担忧。本周早些时候，推特上的一篇文章称，这篇文章是在推特上发表的。我能理解的是，我认为正常的病毒甚至比普通的病毒都要多。Verder kompliseer die dagboek on begrip van ' s和tekste，在kenkeni的geskeer之间保持单词gegewe, kenkeni的nemeer之间保持单词gegewe，在kenkeni的nemeer之间保持单词gelokaliseer在middellike (kon)tekste，在kenkeni的geevolgtrekkings中保持单词op grond van anders (kon)tekste。Twitter将“grootliks”与“intertekstualiteit”(prod-gebruiker/prod-verbruiker)结合起来，将“intertekstualiteit”与“intertekstualiteit demonstreer”结合起来，将“intertekstualiteit demonstreer”与“Twitter- tekiteit”(hê)结合起来。卢蒙巴认为，推特博客正在推动社会媒体和信息媒体对新冠肺炎疫情的讨论，其中一些人对新冠肺炎疫情感到担忧。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.25159/1753-5387/10411
I. Manase
The article draws on typologies of contagion, particularly matrices and patterns of virality considered here as tropes from the Bakhtinian chronotope. Using this frame, it analyses how society attempts to control crises and contagions in Mohale Mashigo’s speculative stories, “Untitled i,” “Untitled ii,” and “Ghost Strain N.” The Foucauldian notion of heterotopic juxtaposition of spaces complements the trope of contagion in unpacking how Mashigo’s characters encounter their specific forms of disasters and epidemics in ways that conform to past mass contagions and also break with those. In its focus on continuities and discontinuities regarding typologies of epidemics and pandemics, the article considers Mashigo’s use of African science fiction and fantasy (speculative fiction) to depict the life experiences and flight from an unfolding climate disaster to another galaxy in “Untitled i” and “Untitled ii,” and the spread of a drug epidemic in a fictional Johannesburg township in “Ghost Strain N.” It argues that we can understand these stories by making heterotopic linkages with the present Covid-19 and various life-changing crises and infections that humanity has encountered, is facing right now and will encounter as it moves with time and strives for survival. Opsomming Hierdie artikel put uit tipologieë van besmetting—veral matrikse en patrone van virusverskynsels wat hier beskou word as stylfigure van die Bakhtiniese chronotoop. Met behulp van hierdie raamwerk ontleed dit hoe die samelewing probeer om krisisse en besmettings te beheer in Mashigo se spekulatiewe stories, “Untitled i,” Untitled ii” en “Ghost Strain N.” Die Foucauldiese gedagte van heterotopiese naasmekaarstelling van ruimtes komplementeer die stylfiguur van besmetting in die uitmekaarhaal van hoe Mashigo se karakters hul spesifieke vorme van rampe en epidemies teëkom op maniere wat voldoen aan—en ook breek met—massabesmettings uit die verlede. In die fokus daarvan op kontinuïteite en diskontinuïteite rakende topologieë van epidemies en pandemies, bestudeer die artikel Mashigo se gebruik van Afrika-wetenskapsfiksie en van fantasie (spekulatiewe fiksie) om die lewenservarings en vlug van 'n ontvouende klimaatramp na 'n ander sterrestelsel uit te beeld in “Untitled i” en “Untitled ii,” en die verspreiding van 'n dwelmepidemie in 'n fiktiewe Johannesburgse township in “Ghost Strain N.” Daar word beredeneer dat ons hierdie verhale kan verstaan deur heterotopiese verbande te bewerkstellig met die huidige Covid-19-situasie en verskeie lewensbedreigende krisisse en infeksies wat die mensdom tans in die gesig staar, in die verlede beleef het en sal teëkom namate dit met tyd beweeg en oorlewing nastreef.
这篇文章借鉴了传染的类型学，特别是矩阵和病毒的模式，这里被认为是巴赫蒂安时位的比喻。利用这一框架，本文分析了莫哈勒·马什戈的推测性故事《无题i》、《无题ii》和《鬼株n》中社会是如何试图控制危机和传染病的。福柯式的空间异位并置的概念补充了传染病的比喻，揭示了马什戈的人物是如何以符合过去大规模传染病的方式遭遇他们特定形式的灾难和流行病的，同时也打破了这些。在关注流行病和流行病类型学的连续性和非连续性时，文章认为Mashigo在《Untitled i》和《Untitled ii》中使用非洲科幻小说和幻想(投机性小说)来描绘生活经历和从一场正在展开的气候灾难逃到另一个星系。以及《幽灵菌株n》中虚构的约翰内斯堡小镇毒品流行的传播，它认为，我们可以通过将当前的Covid-19与人类已经遇到、正在面临并将随着时间的推移和生存而遇到的各种改变生活的危机和感染建立异位联系来理解这些故事。OpsommingHierdie artikel提出了tipologieë van besmeting -几个矩阵在赞助人van virusverskysels中，他们的最流行的词是style figure van die Bakhtiniese chronotop。我帮助了范希尔迪·拉姆维尔克，他让我知道了同样的问题，因为我知道了这是一个特别的故事，“无题i”，“无题ii”，“鬼株n”，“福考迪斯的故事”，“异质的故事”，“鬼株n”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“范·拉姆斯”，“瘟疫”，“瘟疫”，“瘟疫”，“瘟疫”，“瘟疫”，“瘟疫”，“瘟疫”。在die fokus daarvan op kontinuïteite en diskontinuïteite rakende topologieë van流行病和流行病中，最受欢迎的学生是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人，是非洲人。en死verspreiding van的n dwelmepidemie fiktiewe Johannesburgse乡“幽灵应变n”Daar词beredeneer dat ons hierdie verhale菅直人verstaan deur heterotopiese verbande te bewerkstellig遇到死huidige Covid-19-situasie en verskeie lewensbedreigende krisisse en infeksies窟死mensdom黝黑色的死gesig staar,在死verlede beleef het en sal teekom namate说遇到tyd beweeg en oorlewing nastreef。
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