Abstract:Focusing on works by Wayde Compton and Esi Edugyan, this essay analyzes the mix of realism, the gothic, and other speculative forms in contemporary Black Canadian writing to consider the kind of literary-historical and political work this mix performs. I address current debates about the “genre turn” (Rosen) as well as the (re)turn of/to realism in contemporary literature, and I argue that a supplementary logic governs the introduction of the speculative or gothic within realism in Black Canadian works attentive to the occlusions of the historical archive. The friction between realism and the speculative more than “highlight[s] the gaps . . . in the national imaginary” (16), as Cynthia Sugars has argued of the gothic: it also allows writers to introduce a different epistemology, a different ontology, and a different model of the social. In writing both in the “realist prose” (Chakrabarty 35) of the current political arrangements and the languages those arrangements cannot or will not speak, Compton and Edugyan not only make perceptible sites of knowing and being that are outside of the present order but ground collective socio-political imagining anew.
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{"title":"Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond ed. by Imre Szeman and Jeff Diamanti (review)","authors":"Pamela Banting","doi":"10.1353/ari.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51893,"journal":{"name":"ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE","volume":"53 1","pages":"181 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44640969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Works Cited Netting, Robert M. Cultural Ecology. Waveland, 1986. Szeman, Imre, and Dominic Boyer. Energy Humanities: An Anthology. Johns Hopkins UP, 2017. Szeman, Imre, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger, editors. Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Development. Fordham UP, 2017. Wilson, Sheena, Adam Carlson, and Imre Szeman, editors. Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017.
Robert M. Netting著，《文化生态学》。Waveland, 1986年。Szeman, Imre和Dominic Boyer。《能源人文:选集》约翰霍普金斯大学，2017年。Szeman, Imre, Jennifer Wenzel和Patricia Yaeger，编辑。推动文化:101个关于能源和发展的词汇。福特汉姆大学，2017年。威尔逊，希娜，亚当·卡尔森和伊姆雷·塞斯曼，编辑。石油文化:石油、政治、文化。麦吉尔-奎恩大学，2017年。
{"title":"Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by Kailin Wright (review)","authors":"S. Banting","doi":"10.1353/ari.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Works Cited Netting, Robert M. Cultural Ecology. Waveland, 1986. Szeman, Imre, and Dominic Boyer. Energy Humanities: An Anthology. Johns Hopkins UP, 2017. Szeman, Imre, Jennifer Wenzel, and Patricia Yaeger, editors. Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Development. Fordham UP, 2017. Wilson, Sheena, Adam Carlson, and Imre Szeman, editors. Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2017.","PeriodicalId":51893,"journal":{"name":"ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE","volume":"53 1","pages":"185 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44215770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Focusing on Chris Abani’s The Secret History of Las Vegas (2014), this essay argues that analysis of works that enlist the conventions of popular or genre fiction is crucial for understanding the complex ways in which contemporary African novels engage with and respond to the material realities of globalization. Secret History, for instance, both invokes and refuses the epistemic certainties typically promised by the detective plot. In place of solving a mystery and depicting a subsequent return to order, the novel proffers a principle of hermeneutic skepticism that is attuned to multiplicity, simultaneity, and discontinuity. This principle is echoed in another, better-known work, Teju Cole’s Open City (2011), whose protagonist resembles the central character in Secret History. Together, these novels present history as an accumulation of traces, remainders, and ghostly presences, all of which are subject to new kinds of recoding and distortion in the present. The novels’ theorization of history and epistemology, in turn, controverts narratives of globalization as a unifying force or homogenizing process in which differences are smoothed out to facilitate the flows of goods and capital. In doing so, these contemporary African novels become “global” by turning critical attention to the power dynamics that structure the present.
摘要:本文以克里斯·阿巴尼(Chris Abani)的《拉斯维加斯秘史》(The Secret History of Las Vegas, 2014)为研究对象，认为分析那些采用流行小说或类型小说惯例的作品，对于理解当代非洲小说与全球化的物质现实互动和回应的复杂方式至关重要。例如，《密史》既援引又拒绝侦探小说中典型的认识论确定性。小说没有解决一个谜题，也没有描绘随后的回归秩序，而是提出了一种解释学怀疑主义的原则，这种原则与多样性、同时性和不连续性相适应。这一原则在另一部更知名的作品——Teju Cole的《开放之城》(Open City, 2011)中也得到了呼应，其主人公与《秘史》中的核心人物相似。总之，这些小说将历史呈现为一种痕迹、残余物和幽灵般的存在的积累，所有这些都在当下受到新的编码和扭曲。反过来，这些小说对历史和认识论的理论化，对全球化作为一种统一力量或同质化过程的叙述提出了异议，在这种叙述中，差异被消除以促进商品和资本的流动。在这样做的过程中，这些当代非洲小说通过将批判性的注意力转向构建当下的权力动态而变得“全球化”。
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{"title":"Accompanying Text to Andrea Levy's \"Two\"","authors":"Bill Mayblin","doi":"10.1353/ari.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51893,"journal":{"name":"ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE","volume":"53 1","pages":"311 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48972378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing ed. by Susheila Nasta and Mark U. Stein (review)","authors":"V. I. Parel","doi":"10.1353/ari.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51893,"journal":{"name":"ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE","volume":"53 1","pages":"317 - 320"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41524056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay sees Andrea Levy's prolonged preoccupation with matters of family, kinship, and adoption as central to her literary articulation of race, empire, and slavery. It explores how Levy presents the colonial legacies that have entangled Britain and Jamaica as distinctly bodily affairs that impact upon kinship and family-making and argues that her representation of these histories is part of her firm attempt to expose the centrality of colonialism and slavery to the constitution of both Britain and Britons. Yet in pursuing this vital and politically urgent task, Levy risks upholding the synchronisation of corporis and cultura—the body and its historical cultivation—essential to colonial modernity's exalting of "blood cultures" that assume the sanguinary transfusion of historical and cultural particulars within the body itself. This risk can be sighted particularly in Levy's representation of transracial adoption and her appropriation of the rhetoric of "illegitimate" kinship. With particular reference to The Long Song (2010), the essay considers how Levy's invaluable attention to the history of forced adoptions at the heart of slavery's brutality is problematised by adoption's figurative requisitioning for wider (well-intentioned) critical purposes. Ultimately, the essay claims that Levy's laudable literary mission does not always exert sustained pressure on the biocentric norms of colonial modernity's sanguinary imagination.
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{"title":"Introduction to Andrea Levy's Selected Excerpts from The Adventures of Mrs Seacole","authors":"Michael Perfect","doi":"10.1353/ari.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51893,"journal":{"name":"ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE","volume":"53 1","pages":"293 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46102652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Debate over the utility of economic sanctions remains brisk and their use has certainly not diminished. In our recent book, Economic Sanctions Reconsidered 3d edition, my colleagues and I examined 204 episodes over the past century and concluded that, in about one-third of the episodes, economic sanctions succeeded to some degree in achieving their foreign policy goals.1 The one-third rate may not seem terrific, but it does contradict the common statement that “sanctions never work.” We found that the success of economic sanctions depends on various factors—including the type of goal sought, the economic and political context in the target country, and the manner in which the sanctions were implemented. For practitioners, the important question is how to design sanctions so they work better. Since the end of the Cold War, sanctions policies have shifted dramatically. The decline of super power rivalry coupled with the force of globalization changed the objectives and geographic locus of sanctions and introduced new players into the game: non-state actors (both benign non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”) and malign terrorists and drug traffickers) along with different layers of government (notably Congress, and many states and cities). Sanctions policies have consequently targeted a wider spectrum of issues such as ethnic strife, civil chaos, human rights, democracy, narcotics trafficking and terrorism. Authors in this symposium issue delve into the new aspects and deliver a wealth of thoughtful analysis.
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Abstract:The ways in which Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004) deals with the political, economic, and socio-cultural changes that occurred in British society in the aftermath of World War II have been widely discussed. Furthermore, many studies emphasize the novel's significant cultural work in rendering visible the contributions of the British Empire's black citizens in the Second World War. Yet Levy's approach to the imperialist and nationalist rhetoric around the World Wars has not received much attention. This essay explores this question by reading Small Island, specifically the scenes of encounter between white American and black British soldiers, together with "Uriah's War" (2014), a short story Levy wrote in the centenary of the outbreak of World War I. The short story takes place mostly on the Middle Eastern Front of World War I and describes a West Indian soldier's encounter with an Ottoman soldier, whom he calls "the savage Turk." Drawing on Rebecca Walkowitz's Born Translated (2015), this essay argues that both Small Island and "Uriah's War" can be classified as "world-themed" works of fiction in that they consider the World Wars using temporal and spatial comparative frameworks and offer a transnational and anti-imperialist reading of the alliances and animosities that emerged during and in the aftermath of the World Wars.
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