Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/ari.2023.a905712
Bede Scott
Abstract:Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies and affect studies, this essay explores the emotional and generic significance of capitalist modernity in Jorge Amado's Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon (1958). Amado's novel is set in the provincial city of Ilhéus at the time of the First Republic (1889–1930), a particularly volatile period of Brazilian history that witnessed the decline of the regional oligarchies and the rise of the urban bourgeoisie. By combining these two different critical perspectives, I argue, we can understand why Mundinho Falcão, a wealthy investor from Rio, should find it necessary to establish a new emotional regime in Ilhéus, one that privileges capitalist rationality over the hyperbolic feelings associated with the existing feudalistic order. Moreover, as the novel progresses, it becomes clear that this transition at the level of story, whereby one dominant structure of feeling makes way for another, creates a corresponding disturbance at the level of discourse or genre—transforming a narrative of melodramatic antipathies and rivalries into one of bourgeois complicity and compromise.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/ari.2023.a905714
Andrew van der Vlies
Abstract:Stasis and impasse register as conditions of interrupted development in many examples of postapartheid South African writing, works that engage the affective discontents of the transition from white minority rule to a future that has not quite materialised as promised. Much extant scholarship on this body of work attends to prose and to texts written in English. This essay takes two collections of poetry published in South Africa in Afrikaans in 2016—Ronelda Kamfer's Hammie and Bibi Slippers' Fotostaatmasjien—as case-study examples of how lyric poetry in this contested language might model a way out of postcolonial (and postapartheid) malaise. These poets' lyrics are performances in a language whose ongoing, creolizing nature is exploited and advanced by their refusal of conventions that historically linked Afrikaans to white nationalist politics. Kamfer's and Slippers' work evokes—and provokes—an excess of continuity whose multiple affective resonances are testimony to the possibilities that lie beyond stasis.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/ari.2023.a905719
Jarula M. I. Wegner
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/ari.2023.a905718
Gabriella Pishotti
259 Blackness’ function in Heideggerian thought “is to enable and sustain the primordial relation between Dasein and being” (58), essentially by serving as the opposite to being itself. Heidegger’s concept of landscape is thereby revealed to be exclusionary, both denying certain groups of people access to Dasein and reinforcing the coloniality of nature. Eggan’s engagement with the fields of decolonial studies and Black studies is extremely important, as it works against the hegemonic understanding of Heidegger’s work. In a book concerned with settler-colonialism, it is no surprise that the voices of white writers and thinkers take center stage—but Eggan’s strategy in this first chapter to incorporate marginalized voices is laudable. However, when Eggan turns to the work of Schreiner, Lessing, and Coetzee in the latter half of his book, there is not much engagement with Black scholars, especially those from Southern Africa. While Eggan incisively and knowledgeably explicates the African historical context for farm-narratives in his fourth chapter, and centers the story of Indigenous Southern Africans, he misses the opportunity to draw upon the work of Black scholars when he discusses the novels themselves. This is emblematic of a larger issue I see with Eggan’s work: if settler-colonialism is a political (and racial) issue, I am not sure it is possible to work toward “widespread, concerted acts of multispecies community building and restor(y)ation” (240) without first achieving a baseline of environmental/racial justice for the people historically displaced by settler-colonialism. In a similar sense, to read white writing, especially from Southern Africa, without also deeply engaging with the Black voices on the continent obviously works against this mission of “restor(y)ation.” While Unsettling Nature as a whole is an erudite and important examination of settler-colonial narratives, Eggan’s conclusion that “all entities are natural aliens, guests on contested land” (241) skips years of necessary work on race, difference, and environmental justice.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-01DOI: 10.1353/ari.2023.a905715
Jeremy C. De Chavez
Abstract:Recent work at the intersection of affect theory and postcolonial studies has generally been skeptical of the reparative turn and concerned about its potential complicity with imperialist agendas. That skepticism is often accompanied by reaffirmations of the value of paranoia as a reliable basis for critique. This essay examines the consequences of paranoia as the default orientation of postcolonial criticism and reflects on how a reparative sensibility might expand the field's understanding of what constitutes meaningful critique. To that end, this essay argues that reparative reading cultivates attentiveness to the ecology of temporalities that are immanent in postcolonial texts—an attentiveness that can facilitate the envisioning of alternative futures. The essay grounds its theoretical reflections by revisiting Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters (1990) and examining the predominantly paranoid critical response that the novel has generated before offering an alternative reparative reading of the work.
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Marie J. Carrière, Nicholas Birns, L. White, Kimberly Clough, A. Hartwiger, Geoffrey Macdonald, Uchechukwu P. Umezurike, Tathagata Som, Marc Lynch
Abstract:This article examines water as a site of resistance to environmental and colonial damage in the poetry of Métis author Katherena Vermette and Chinese-Canadian activist Rita Wong. I situate my poetic analysis within the critical context of ecological criticism and, in particular, Indigenous environmental ethics, material feminisms, and the feminist ethics of care. The articulation of water's particularities, irreducibility, autonomy, agency, and mode of human and nonhuman kinship constitutes the micro-poetics of Vermette's river woman and Wong's undercurrent. Water thus provides an epitome for the care ethics advocated by both poetry collections and their emphasis on ecological interdependency. I conclude by arguing that "feminist ecologies" is a useful nomenclature to denote the environmental care ethics developed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous feminists who adopt an intersectional and decolonial lens for identifying the differential power dynamics and ecological and social costs of environmental exploitation.
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160 out. As such, contemporary writers, notably Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sefi Atta, continue to engage the idea of the state, attesting to its abiding presence, despite its colonial foundations. The predominance of male-authored texts analyzed in Kortenaar’s book is glaring. Some readers may find this jarring, mainly because Flora Nwapa is the only female writer whose novel is analyzed in the book. This gap highlights that many African women, including Ama Ata Aidoo, Efua Sutherland, Zulu Sofola, and Rebecca Njau, had little access to publishing spaces prior to the 1960s, when several African countries wrested independence from their European colonizers. There is also a predominance of West African novelists, which elides the perspectives of how writers from the Francophone, Lusophone, and Arabophone regions imagine relationships between the state and the citizenry. Again, this may be a source of concern for readers. Nevertheless, Kortenaar’s Debt, Law, Realism will resonate with scholars in diverse fields. Interdisciplinary in breadth, the book incorporates insights from economics, political philosophy, history, gender studies, and law, showing how literary studies intersects with disparate disciplines to amplify current debates regarding violence, human rights, capitalism, and sovereignty.
160出局。因此，当代作家，尤其是奇玛曼达·恩戈齐·阿迪奇和塞菲·阿塔，继续关注国家的理念，证明了国家的持久存在，尽管它有殖民基础。科尔特纳尔的书中分析的男性著作占主导地位是显而易见的。一些读者可能会觉得这很刺耳，主要是因为Flora Nwapa是唯一一位在书中分析小说的女作家。这一差距凸显了许多非洲女性，包括Ama Ata Aidoo、Efua Sutherland、Zulu Sofola和Rebecca Njau，在20世纪60年代之前，几乎没有机会进入出版空间，当时几个非洲国家从欧洲殖民者手中夺取了独立。西非小说家也占主导地位，他们忽略了法语、葡语和阿拉伯地区作家如何想象国家和公民之间关系的观点。同样，这可能会引起读者的关注。尽管如此，科尔特纳尔的《债务、法律、现实主义》将引起不同领域学者的共鸣。这本书涉及多学科，融合了经济学、政治哲学、历史、性别研究和法律的见解，展示了文学研究如何与不同的学科交叉，以扩大当前关于暴力、人权、资本主义和主权的辩论。
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Abstract:This article examines the role of spirituality in Lee Maracle's Celia's Song (2014). After considering the usefulness of magic realism as an analytical tool for the novel's spiritual depictions, I argue that Maracle goes far beyond the use of marvellous literary devices. Her novel insists that community healing and judicial sovereignty are inextricable from spiritual resurgence. The eponymous protagonist's growing power as a seer, her family's reconnection to ancestors and spirits, and a plot resolution that bridges the boundaries of life and death offer a literary vision of decolonization to which spirituality is crucial. These elements contribute to a more holistic vision of decolonial spirituality and Indigenous responses to colonial and patriarchal violence. Reading Celia's Song as a decolonial expression of spiritual practice situates the novel in a broader context of Indigenous knowledge that encompasses spirituality, justice, and cultural restoration.
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Abstract:This article explores representations of the home in Mahmoud Darwish's poem "The House as Casualty" and Hala Alyan's 2017 novel Salt Houses. The article builds on the psychoanalytic discourse of home in literary analysis but focuses on the materiality of the house to consider the role of the house in broader struggles of national identity and claims to place. In the case of exilic Palestinian representations of displacement, scholars' reliance on models that focus only on the psychological ramifications of unhoming and/or limit the material world to a metaphor for a person's inner world may diminish the role the built environment plays in politics surrounding Palestine. My approach privileges the role the house plays in retaining memory and cultural practices that constitute the fabric of the nation. Darwish's and Alyan's texts necessarily engage with the deterritorialized nature of Palestinian identity and the psychic trauma of displacement but also fight against erasure by utilizing the materiality of the pre-al-Nakba house as the manifestation of displacement and its memory as a claim to place.
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