Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1782
Alex Carabine
Twisting and uncanny, Build Your House Around My Body is a kaleidoscopic hallucination of a novel. Its story fits uneasily in multiple genres, from the Gothic to the bildungsroman, and it is told via the seemingly contradictory—yet ultimately sympathetic—techniques of magical realism and historical fiction. The primary protagonist of the book is Winnie, an American-Vietnamese woman whose biracial identity has alienated her from her dual cultures but also, crucially, from her self. Through her narrative we learn not only the histories of the characters around her, but also the recent history of Vietnam. The novel charts a sinuous and haunting movement across time, space and identity, creating a complex yet fascinating book of shifting narratives and meanings.
围绕我的身体建造你的房子》（Build Your House Around My Body）曲折离奇，是一部万花筒般的幻觉小说。它的故事在哥特式小说和童话式小说等多种体裁中都显得格格不入，它采用了魔幻现实主义和历史小说等看似矛盾但最终又令人同情的手法。本书的主要主人公温妮是一位美籍越南裔女性，她的双种族身份使她与双重文化产生了隔阂，更重要的是，她与自我产生了隔阂。通过她的叙述，我们不仅了解了她周围人物的历史，也了解了越南的近代史。小说描绘了跨越时间、空间和身份的蜿蜒曲折、令人魂牵梦萦的故事，创造了一部叙事和意义不断变化的复杂而又引人入胜的作品。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-02DOI: 10.14324/111.444.1755-4527.1772
Thomas Langham
Through an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello (1603), Basil Dearden’s All Night Long (1962) reconfigures the play’s constructions of self to approach a conversation about racial identity in diasporic communities and how appropriation modifies and threatens selfhood.1 In Othello, Shakespeare conceives the self as something created and modified by the Other through interpersonal exchange. He stretches and explores to its limits such a construction of self, showing how it tends towards tragedy and how, through a manipulation of the eye and what it perceives, the singular self can fracture into multiple. For Dearden, jazz presents itself as a suitable body of work to probe and engage with this theme in several ways. Jazz is a cultural product of black diaspora which functions, in part, to nurture black identity and community in the face of racial delegitimisation by dominant white populations.
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