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“Then Her World Exploded”: Science-Fictional Reading and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me “然后她的世界爆炸了”:科幻小说阅读和塔-内希斯·科茨的《世界与我之间》
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac060
Lesley Larkin
In his extended epistolary essay Between the World and Me (2015), Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the segregation and disenfranchisement that shaped his West Baltimore childhood using language that one might describe as science-fictional: I came to understand that my country was a galaxy, and this galaxy stretched from the pandemonium of West Baltimore to the happy hunting grounds of Mr. Belvedere. I obsessed over the distance between that other sector of space and my own. I knew that my portion of the American galaxy, where bodies were enslaved by a tenacious gravity, was black and that the other, liberated portion was not. I knew that some inscrutable energy preserved the breach. I felt, but did not yet understand, the relation between that other world and me. And I felt in this a cosmic injustice, a profound cruelty, which infused an abiding, irrepressible desire to unshackle my body and achieve the velocity of escape. (20–21; emphasis added)
在他的长篇书信体文章《世界与我之间》(Between the World and Me, 2015)中,塔-内希西·科茨(Ta-Nehisi Coates)用科幻小说般的语言描述了影响他西巴尔的摩童年的种族隔离和剥夺公民权:我开始明白,我的国家是一个星系,这个星系从西巴尔的摩的混乱延伸到贝尔维德尔快乐的猎场。我痴迷于另一个空间和我自己的空间之间的距离。我知道,我所在的美洲星系中,身体被顽强的引力所奴役的那一部分是黑色的,而另一部分被解放的那一部分则不是。我知道某种不可思议的能量保留了缺口。我感觉到了另一个世界和我之间的关系,但还不明白。我觉得这是一种宇宙的不公平,一种深刻的残酷,它注入了一种持久的、无法抑制的欲望,想要解放我的身体,实现逃离的速度。(20日至21日;重点补充)
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Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’s The World in Half 克里斯蒂娜Henríquez的《一分为二的世界》中不可调和的损失
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac063
Ariana Vigil
Journal Article Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez’s The World in Half Get access Ariana Vigil Ariana Vigil University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA avigil@email.unc.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 47, Issue 3, Fall 2022, Pages 130–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac063 Published: 25 March 2023
期刊文章克里斯蒂娜的不可调和的损失Henríquez的世界一半获得访问阿里安娜·维吉尔阿里安娜·维吉尔北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校,美国avigil@email.unc.edu搜索作者的其他作品:牛津学术谷歌学者MELUS,卷47,第3期,秋季2022,页130-152,https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac063出版:2023年3月25日
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Friendship in the Time of COINTELPRO: Clarence Major and Dingane Joe Goncalves COINTELPRO时代的友谊:Clarence Major和Dingane Joe Goncalves
3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac059
Yeshua G B Tolle
I had to accept the fact that we would never have the openness of friendship I always thought could be possible. . . . Then your card [came] from Nairobi, and I thought once again maybe . . . Pat and I will sit down once and for all and look at why we were not more available to each other all these years. —Audre Lorde to Pat Parker, 6 December 1985 It insists on the irreplaceably rooted nature of friendship, however ethically troubling that may be: the love of the shared and the same. —Alan Bray (259) In the mid-twentieth century, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unleashed COINTELPRO (1956–71), a series of counterintelligence operations aimed at crushing American radicalism of every stripe. Already disproportionately victimized by the Bureau, Black writers were particularly impacted by these operations. Following the hiring of J. Edgar Hoover in 1919, “a who’s who of black protest was spied on, often infiltrated, and sometimes formally indicted” by the FBI (Maxwell 3). William J. Maxwell explains: “Poring over novels, stories, essays, poems, and plays as well as political commentary and intercepted correspondence, the FBI acted as a kind of half-buried readers’ bureau with above­ground effects on the making of black art” (5). In the era of COINTELPRO, when Hoover’s fear of a Black political messiah kicked the Bureau into high gear, state surveillance and Black literary culture were intimately entwined.
我不得不接受这样一个事实,我们永远不会拥有我一直认为可能的友谊. . . .然后你的名片从内罗毕寄来,我又想也许…帕特和我将彻底地坐下来看看为什么这么多年来我们没有更多地陪伴彼此。——奥德丽·洛德对帕特·帕克,1985年12月6日它坚持友谊不可替代的根深蒂固的本质,不管这可能会引起伦理上的麻烦:那就是对共同的和相同的爱。在20世纪中期,联邦调查局(FBI)发起了一系列反间谍行动,旨在粉碎美国各种形式的激进主义。黑人作家已经不成比例地成为联邦调查局的受害者,尤其受到这些行动的影响。在1919年j·埃德加·胡佛上任后,“黑人抗议活动的名人被联邦调查局监视,经常被渗透,有时被正式起诉”(麦克斯韦3)。“仔细研究小说、故事、散文、诗歌和戏剧,以及政治评论和截获的信件,联邦调查局充当了一种半埋在地下的读者局,对黑人艺术的创作产生了地上的影响”(5)。在COINTELPRO时代,胡佛对黑人政治救世主的恐惧使该局进入了高速运转,国家监视和黑人文学文化紧密地交织在一起。
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“Say, Who Owns This House?”: US Violence, Indebtedness, and Care in Toni Morrison’s Home “喂,这房子是谁的?”:托妮·莫里森家中的美国暴力、负债和关怀
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-11-04 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac057
Yumi Pak
Home (2012), Toni Morrison’s tenth novel, strikes readers with its deceptive slenderness; much like the house in the epigraph, it evokes an atmosphere of nooks and crannies where shadows and truths lie, in both senses of that word. Yet, like the character Frank Money’s paralyzing fugue states that dull his senses to the world, the actual heft of the novel is felt in the possibilities created by things unseen and unsaid. Taking place in the mid-1950s, the novel follows two seemingly disparate story lines, the first being that of Frank, a Black veteran of the Korean War, the second focusing on his younger sister Cee, who is subject to a eugenics experiments headed by her employer that results in her sterilization. As these story lines intersect, Morrison addresses the ties between military and reproductive violence and their ongoing legacies, ties we can still read in the anti-Black administering of police forces and medical machinations wielded against Black communities, both before and during the long reach of COVID-19.
《家》(Home, 2012)是托妮·莫里森的第十部小说,它看似纤细,却给读者留下了深刻印象;就像题词中的房子一样,它唤起了一种角落和缝隙的氛围,阴影和真理都在这里,从这个词的两种意义上来说。然而,就像主人公弗兰克·莫尼麻痹的神游状态使他对世界的感觉迟钝一样,这部小说的真正分量在于那些看不见的和未说出来的事物所创造的可能性。小说发生在20世纪50年代中期,遵循两条看似不相干的故事线,第一条是朝鲜战争的黑人老兵弗兰克的故事线,第二条是他的妹妹茜的故事线,她被雇主领导的优生学实验导致绝育。随着这些故事线的交叉,莫里森讲述了军事暴力和生殖暴力之间的联系及其持续的遗产,我们仍然可以在反黑人的警察部队管理和针对黑人社区的医疗阴谋中读到这种联系,无论是在COVID-19长期影响之前还是期间。
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Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project by J. J. Butts (review) 《暗镜:非裔美国人与联邦作家计划》作者:j·j·巴茨(书评)
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0403
Maya Hislop
The first part of the title of J. J. Butts’s impressive and exhaustively researched Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project is taken from the conclusion of Richard Wright’s 12,000,000 Black Voices: A Folk History of the United States (1941). It traces the shifting meaning of this image from a prophetic warning calling for the repudiation of American racism, to the need for mutual struggle during World War II in Wright’s work, to the possibilities of a generative national politics shaped by the continuous presence of Black history in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952). In the New Deal era, the writers of Black intertexts, whether those of the Federal Writers’ Project’s Negro Units’ social histories or their subsequent texts, used Black history as a rhetorical lens to scrutinize the federal government’s declared commitment to a civic pluralism, which included Black citizens and its associated efforts at modernization and the equitable “redistribution of social goods” (33). Dark Mirror focuses on a group of Black intertexts written by writers “as FWP writers” (165). Their work documented Black urban neighborhoods in the North, with their influx of Southern migrants from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These intertexts used vernacular narrative modes and materials associated with the Black folk as vital records, as vernacular histories, of “difference, inequity or injustice” (16) and as “memories of oppression, struggle, and hope” (19). These forms remained culturally and politically vital in shaping the present. Butts argues that Black intertexts, including Jack Conroy’s collaboration with Arna Bontemps, have been analyzed largely in the context of the influence of the American Communist Party while “the cultural implications of the liberal state as the ascendant state form in the US” (21) have been overlooked. In situating these intertexts primarily in their relationship to the New Deal, and the beginnings of the liberal welfare state, Dark Mirror is a significant contribution to an expanded analysis of the cultural and political complexities and tensions of these works and this era. Chapter 1 examines how the FWP guidebooks, with their federal authority, were largely “propaganda” (52) for the New Deal and its state-directed ......................................................................................................
j·j·巴茨的《黑暗之镜:非裔美国人和联邦作家项目》令人印象深刻,研究详尽,标题的第一部分取自理查德·赖特的《一千两百万黑人声音:美国民间历史》(1941)的结论。它追溯了这幅图像的变化意义,从呼吁否定美国种族主义的预言警告,到赖特作品中二战期间相互斗争的需要,再到拉尔夫·埃里森(Ralph Ellison)的《看不见的人》(Invisible Man, 1952)中黑人历史的持续存在塑造了一种再生国家政治的可能性。在新政时代,黑人互文的作者,无论是联邦作家项目黑人单位社会历史的作者,还是他们后来的文本的作者,都把黑人历史作为一个修辞的镜头,来审视联邦政府对公民多元化的承诺,其中包括黑人公民及其在现代化和公平的“社会物品再分配”方面的相关努力。《暗镜》关注的是一组“作为FWP作家”的黑人互文(165)。他们的作品记录了20世纪30年代到50年代初南方移民涌入的北方黑人城市社区。这些互文使用了与黑人民间相关的方言叙事模式和材料,作为“差异、不平等或不公正”(16)和“压迫、斗争和希望的记忆”(19)的重要记录和方言历史。这些形式在塑造现在的文化和政治上仍然至关重要。Butts认为,黑人互文,包括Jack Conroy与Arna Bontemps的合作,在很大程度上是在美国共产党影响的背景下进行分析的,而“自由主义国家作为美国崛起的国家形式的文化含义”(21)被忽视了。《暗镜》主要将这些互文置于它们与新政和自由福利国家的开端的关系中,对这些作品和这个时代的文化和政治复杂性和紧张局势的扩展分析做出了重大贡献。第一章探讨如何拨开尘封的指南,联邦权力,主要是“宣传”(52)新政及其政府主导的 ......................................................................................................
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Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project. J. J. Butts 《暗镜:非裔美国人和联邦作家计划》。j·j·巴兹
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-09-16 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac044
Robin Lucy
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Jewish Cultural Studies. Simon J. Bronner 犹太文化研究。西蒙·j·布朗纳
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-09-13 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac047
Karen E. H. Skinazi
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Postmemory Workshops: Vietnamese American Poets, Refugee Memory Work, and Creative Writing 后记忆工作坊:越南裔美国诗人,难民记忆工作和创意写作
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac043
Joseph Wei
Currently there’s no institutional space devoted expressly to poetry of the refu-gee experience. Let’s imagine one into existence together, for a day. —Event Description for the “One-Day Center for Refugee Poetics” (“Upcoming”)
目前还没有专门研究难民经历诗歌的机构空间。让我们一起想象一个存在的一天。-“难民诗学一日中心”(“即将举办”)活动介绍
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The Weight of the Past: Mixed-Race Materiality in Post-Racial Asian American Literature 过去的重量:后种族美籍亚裔文学中的混血物质性
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac041
M. Poulsen
Near the end of Celeste Ng’s widely lauded novel Everything I Never Told You (2014), the central character, Lydia, steps off a boat in the middle of the night and drowns. In her final moments, the long-suffering teenager has determined she will no longer ignore who she is in order to meet her parents’ expectations; jumping into the center of the lake and swimming to shore will be a way to start over. The symbolism of this gesture—Lydia is drowning in expectations, but she will be reborn from the water—is also intensely personal. Years before, Lydia nearly drowned in the same lake when her brother, jealous of her status as favored daughter, pushed and then pulled her from the water. This time, Lydia is determined to save herself. However, as readers have known since the novel’s opening pages, Lydia cannot swim and will instead drown. The revelation of Lydia’s death is ostensibly an answer to the suspense novel’s central mystery: how and why did Lydia die? Yet the description reveals a puzzling, ambiguous moment. Why did Lydia believe she could swim to shore? Was it wishful thinking? Suicide? Although questions about Lydia’s death remain unanswered in Everything I Never Told You, what becomes clear in this scene is Lydia’s steadfast belief in her own immateriality. In the moments before she enters the lake, Lydia feels “as if she were floating in space, completely untethered” (275). Like outer space, the lake is “a great void spreading beneath her” (276). Lydia does not step off the boat because she is under the illusion that she can swim but because she has imagined away the weight of her body. Of course, this belief is countered by the fact of her death. Lydia’s sinking, her body found in the lake a day and a half later, is belated evidence of her material existence. The revelation of how and why Lydia dies thus leads to another question entirely: why would Lydia believe in her own immateriality so insistently? Lydia’s death scene highlights an emerging representational mode in contemporary Asian American writing about mixed-race experiences: the mixed-race character as dematerialized. Echoing much earlier portrayals, where multiracial characters often die or disappear, these mixed-race characters from twenty......................................................................................................
塞莱斯特·吴(Celeste Ng)广受赞誉的小说《我从未告诉过你的一切》(Everything I Never Told You, 2014)的结尾部分,主人公莉迪亚(Lydia)半夜从船上跳下,淹死了。在生命的最后时刻,这位长期受苦的少女决心不再为了满足父母的期望而忽视自己;跳进湖中心,游到岸边将是一种重新开始的方式。这个手势的象征意义——莉迪亚淹没在期望中,但她将从水里重生——也是强烈的个人意味。几年前,莉迪亚差点淹死在同一个湖里,因为她的哥哥嫉妒她作为宠女的地位,把她从水里推了又拉。这一次,莉迪亚决心拯救自己。然而,正如读者从小说开头就知道的那样,莉迪亚不会游泳,而是会淹死。莉迪亚之死的揭示表面上是对悬疑小说中心谜题的回答:莉迪亚是如何以及为什么死去的?然而,这种描述揭示了一个令人困惑、模棱两可的时刻。为什么莉迪亚相信她能游到岸边?这是一厢情愿吗?自杀?尽管在《我从未告诉你的一切》中,关于莉迪亚之死的问题仍未得到解答,但在这一幕中,莉迪亚坚定地相信自己的非物质性。在她进入湖中之前的那一刻,莉迪亚感觉“仿佛她漂浮在太空中,完全没有束缚”(275)。就像外太空一样,这个湖是“在她下面蔓延的巨大虚空”(276)。莉迪亚没有下船,因为她幻想自己会游泳,而是因为她想象自己身体的重量消失了。当然,这种想法被她死亡的事实所反驳。莉迪亚的沉没,她的尸体在一天半后在湖中被发现,是她物质存在的迟来的证据。莉迪亚死亡的方式和原因的揭示由此引出了另一个问题:为什么莉迪亚如此坚持地相信自己的非物质性?莉迪亚的死亡场景凸显了当代亚裔美国人关于混血经历的写作中一种新兴的代表模式:非物质化的混血角色。呼应更早地描绘,多民族的人物经常死亡或消失,这些混血字符从二十 ......................................................................................................
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Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care in Multiethnic American Narratives. Leah A. Milne 小说主题:作者身份在美国多种族叙事中的激进自我关怀。利亚·a·米尔恩
IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN Pub Date : 2022-09-05 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlac051
Suzanne Uzzilia
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