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“All I can See of My Country”: Representations of Precarity in Selected Poems of Mxolisi Nyezwa “我所能看到的我的国家”:Mxolisi Nyezwa诗歌选集中不稳定的表现
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795347
Kyle Allan
With poems that convey concisely the existential state of living in precarity, Mxolisi Nyezwa offers a unique and crucial voice in South African literature. This article discusses representations of precarity and related concepts of “slow death” (Berlant 2007), “slow violence” (Nixon 2011), and “cruel optimism” (Berlant 2011), focusing on several selected poems from Nyezwa’s (2011) volume Malikhanye. The article engages with his ability to react to precarity via the revitalisation of language and the effective mobilisation of innovative aesthetic strategies. Nyezwa’s poems foreground the precarity that has been experienced through socio-politico-economic factors, including the often neglected factor of environmental degradation; they also emphasise the process(es) of grieving and the concept of grievability, and encourage an embrace of human vulnerability, while simultaneously connecting personal loss to the greater context of societal precarity. His work reveals that a revitalisation of poetic language can react to and challenge precarity.
Mxolisi Nyezwa的诗歌简洁地传达了生活在不稳定中的生存状态,在南非文学中发出了独特而重要的声音。本文讨论了“缓慢死亡”(Berlant,2007)、“缓慢暴力”(Nixon,2011)和“残酷乐观主义”(Berrant,2011。这篇文章通过语言的振兴和创新美学策略的有效调动,展现了他对不稳定做出反应的能力。奈兹瓦的诗歌突出了社会政治经济因素所经历的不稳定,包括经常被忽视的环境退化因素;他们还强调悲伤的过程和悲伤的概念,并鼓励拥抱人类的脆弱性,同时将个人损失与更大的社会不稳定联系起来。他的作品表明,诗歌语言的复兴可以应对和挑战不稳定。
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引用次数: 1
Precarity, Protectedness and Power in Emmanuel Jal's WARchild: A Boy Soldier's Story 埃马纽埃尔·贾的《WARchild:一个男孩士兵的故事》中的不稳定、保护和权力
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795352
A. Gagiano
Despite being a memoir and not a novel, Jal's text is both carefully shaped and affectively complex; amenable to a literary reading along its intersecting axes of precarity, protectedness and power. Child soldier texts have become icons of ambiguous precarity in African literary studies. WARchild enlarges this scope in vividly evoking the protected family life of a war-affected child prior to military participation as an actual boy soldier who then looks for refuge and protection in power, brutality and bloodshed. Jal details the forms of precarity impinging on the child during wartime, in the post-war youth's existence as well as the initially short-lived and fragile shelters available to the socially damaged misfit in the long struggle to cope with if not overcome post-war precarities. Although co-authored, the text throughout convincingly articulates Jal's single voice as a powerful witness against and interrogator of war – especially but not exclusively in its incorporation of children into military action. The article traces this delineation of evolving precarity, kinds of protectedness sought, found and tested, and power forms that impinge upon and are entered into by the boy soldier subject.
尽管贾的文本是一本回忆录而非小说,但它既精心塑造,又情感复杂;适合于沿着其不稳定、受保护和权力的交叉轴线进行文学阅读。儿童兵文本已经成为非洲文学研究中模糊不稳定的象征。WARchild扩大了这一范围,生动地再现了一个受战争影响的儿童在参军前受保护的家庭生活,他是一个真正的男孩士兵,然后在权力、暴行和流血中寻求庇护和保护。Jal详细描述了战争期间、战后青年生活中对儿童的不稳定形式,以及在长期斗争中,即使不能克服战后的不稳定,也能为社会受损的不适应者提供最初短暂而脆弱的避难所。尽管是合著者,但该文本始终令人信服地表达了贾作为反对战争和审讯战争的有力证人的单一声音——尤其是但不限于将儿童纳入军事行动。这篇文章追溯了这种对不断演变的不稳定的描述,寻求、发现和测试的各种保护,以及影响和进入男孩士兵主体的权力形式。
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引用次数: 1
“To Grasp the Gaping Grave:” Blackness, Death, and the Afterlife of Slavery in Unathi Slasha’s Jah Hills “抓住裂开的坟墓:”黑暗,死亡,以及Unathi Slasha的Jah Hills的奴隶的来世
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795346
Marzia Milazzo
This essay reads Unathi Slasha’s Jah Hills (2019 [2017]) in light of Afropessimism to argue that the novel articulates a grammar of Black suffering and offers a staunch critique of antiblackness and white supremacy. Through the character of Jah Hills, who inhabits the limbo between life and death, the novel reflects upon how slavery continues to shape the ontological position and everyday lives of Black people as they remain subjected to premature death. In the process, Jah Hills throws white theories of precarity into crisis as well as disrupts the antiblack politics of sentimentality as the story is told from the perspective of Jah-turned-isithunzela, a creature that, rather than primarily eliciting the sympathy of the reader, wreaks havoc on the living. An extended meditation on the political ontology of Blackness, Jah Hills can be read as an allegory of the Black condition, one that is not simply defined by precarity, but by a more fundamental deprivation as life itself is not guaranteed.
本文从非洲主义的角度阅读了Unathi Slasha的《Jah Hills》(2019[2017]),认为这部小说表达了黑人苦难的语法,并对反黑人和白人至上主义进行了坚定的批判。小说通过生活在生与死之间的Jah Hills这个角色,反思了奴隶制如何在黑人过早死亡的情况下继续塑造他们的本体论地位和日常生活。在这个过程中,Jah Hills将白人的不稳定理论抛入危机,并颠覆了多愁善感的反黑人政治,因为故事是从Jah变成的isithunzela的角度讲述的,这个生物非但没有主要引起读者的同情,反而对生活造成了严重破坏。Jah Hills是对黑人政治本体论的延伸思考,可以被解读为黑人状况的寓言,这种状况不是简单地由不稳定定义的,而是由更根本的剥夺定义的,因为生活本身没有保障。
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引用次数: 1
Feminist Protest and the Disruptive Address of Naked Bodies 女权主义者的抗议和对裸体的破坏
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795348
Sandra Young
The strategies with which a new generation of feminist activists have made visible the impact of gender-based violence have rendered bodies legible in the public discourses that challenge the social norms of everyday life in post-apartheid South Africa. This article considers the implications of public nakedness for an understanding of precarity not only as a condition but also as a resource for the politics of resistance. It examines the testimonies of activists involved in the Fallist protests on university campuses in 2016, as well as some antecedents of this form of protest: the women who participated in the Dobsonville township protests of 1990 as seen in the documentary, Uku Hamba ‘Ze – To Walk Naked (Maingard, Meintjes and Thompson 1995), and the protest strategies adopted within the women’s peace movement in Liberia, as recounted in the documentary, Pray the Devil Back to Hell (Disney and Reticker 2008).
新一代女权主义活动家所采用的策略使基于性别的暴力的影响变得可见,在挑战种族隔离后南非日常生活的社会规范的公共话语中,这些策略使身体变得清晰。这篇文章考虑了公共裸体对于理解不稳定性的影响,它不仅是一种条件,也是一种抵抗政治的资源。它考察了积极分子参与的法度Fallist抗议2016年在大学校园,以及一些祖先的这种形式的抗议:Dobsonville乡抗议的妇女参加了1990年的纪录片,Uku Hamba“泽-赤身行走(汤普森Maingard Meintjes, 1995),和抗议策略采用在利比里亚妇女和平运动,在这部纪录片中,祈祷魔鬼送回地狱(迪斯尼和Reticker 2008)。
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引用次数: 3
Lucy’s Precarious Privilege in Fiona Snyckers’s Lacuna Fiona·斯奈克斯小说中露西的不安全特权
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795344
R. A. Northover
The article applies both Judith Butler’s notion of precarity and her Freudian approach to an analysis of Fiona Snyckers’s novel Lacuna (2019a). Using Freudian psychoanalysis to analyse the structure of Lucy’s trauma and to trace the process of her healing, I argue that, although the process is uneven and its outcome partial, it traces a movement from the darkness of her trauma to the illumination, following her name, of its cause as part of the process of healing. Although she claims her novel gives voice to Lucy, the silenced rape survivor of J M Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), Snyckers has been accused of silencing the voices of the black victims of sexual violence and exploitation – those most exposed to precarity. However, I argue that one of Snyckers’s central concerns is to critique the privileges enjoyed by the white middle class.
本文运用朱迪斯·巴特勒的不稳定性概念和弗洛伊德的方法来分析Fiona·斯奈克斯的小说《拉库纳》(2019a)。使用弗洛伊德精神分析法来分析露西创伤的结构,并追踪她的治愈过程,我认为,尽管这个过程是不均衡的,其结果是部分的,但它追踪了一个从她创伤的黑暗到其原因的光明的运动,这是治愈过程的一部分。尽管Snyckers声称她的小说为J M Coetzee的《耻辱》(1999)中沉默的强奸幸存者Lucy发声,但她被指控压制了性暴力和性剥削的黑人受害者——那些最容易受到不稳定影响的人——的声音。然而,我认为Snyckers的核心关注点之一是批评白人中产阶级享有的特权。
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引用次数: 1
Breaking the Chains of Slavery: Precarity, the Personal and the Political in Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man 打破奴隶制的枷锁:Nkosinathi Sithole《饥饿吞噬一个人》中的不稳定、个人和政治
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795340
C. Stobie
This article offers a literary analysis of a prize-winning South African novel, Hunger Eats a Man (2015), by Nkosinathi Sithole. I analyse the political and cultural history and sexual politics represented in the novel by employing a theoretical nexus of precarity studies as it intersects with feminist, subaltern and postcolonial studies, enabling challenges to Eurocentric models of the precariat. I outline the conditions creating the precarity of certain characters, textually compared to slavery, and the effects of the economic gap between the black middle class and the desperately poor, rural slum-dwellers. Poverty and the abuse of women are both seen as forms of inadmissible exploitation in the novel, although the text refutes the possibility of a natural alliance between the struggles against the two forms of oppression. Using the theoretical work of Pumla Dineo Gqola on rape, I focus on voice, perspective, agency, subversion and resistance in examining the novel’s representations of sexual abuse, rape and violent retribution. I note the implications of the story-within-a-story revolutionary narrative about the starving poor occupying the homes of the wealthy. Finally, I analyse the effects of techniques that shape readers positively, offering an ethical dimension that allows for social change.
本文对Nkosinathi Sithole的南非获奖小说《饥饿吃人》(2015)进行了文学分析。我分析了小说中所代表的政治和文化历史以及性政治,方法是采用不稳定研究的理论联系,因为它与女权主义、下层社会和后殖民主义研究相交叉,从而对以欧洲为中心的不稳定模式提出了挑战。我概述了造成某些人物不稳定的条件,与奴隶制相比,以及黑人中产阶级和极度贫困的农村贫民窟居民之间经济差距的影响。贫困和虐待妇女在小说中都被视为不可接受的剥削形式,尽管文本驳斥了反对这两种压迫形式的斗争之间自然结盟的可能性。利用Pumla Dineo Gqola关于强奸的理论著作,我在考察小说对性虐待、强奸和暴力报复的表现时,重点关注了声音、视角、代理、颠覆和抵抗。我注意到了关于饥饿的穷人占领富人家园的故事中的革命叙事的含义。最后,我分析了积极塑造读者的技术的影响,提供了一个允许社会变革的伦理维度。
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引用次数: 1
“LipServants” and Mutes: Experiencing Precarity Through the Commercial Control of Language in Tammy Baikie’s Critical Dystopia Selling LipService (2017) “嘴唇仆人”与哑巴:塔米·贝基的批判反乌托邦《卖嘴唇服务》(2017)中通过语言的商业控制体验不稳定性
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795345
Lynn Clarke
This article notes the relevance of Selling LipService by Tammy Baikie (2017) at the contemporary moment, as it deals with capitalism, consumerism, language, branding, communication and liberty. The novel’s dystopian setting reveals characters’ precarity caused by the commercial exploitation of language. The article deploys Judith Butler’s theories of precarity, amplified by reference to Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics. It further reveals the significance of theorists’ commentaries on language, branding and critical dystopianism, used as tools to investigate the novel. The article argues that Baikie’s critical dystopia highlights challenges to precarity through the original use of language and resistance by disaffected outsiders beyond the system, allowing readers to glimpse hopeful elements of social dreaming in and beyond the text.
本文指出了Tammy Baikie(2017)的《Selling LipService》在当代的相关性,因为它涉及资本主义、消费主义、语言、品牌、沟通和自由。小说的反乌托邦背景揭示了由于语言的商业利用而导致的人物不稳定。这篇文章运用了朱迪斯·巴特勒的不稳定理论,并通过引用阿希尔·姆本贝的尸体政治概念加以放大。它进一步揭示了理论家对语言、品牌和批判反乌托邦的评论作为研究小说的工具的意义。文章认为,拜基的批判性反乌托邦突出了对不稳定的挑战,通过最初使用语言和系统外心怀不满的局外人的抵抗,让读者能够在文本内外看到社会梦想的希望元素。
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Challenging Precarious Work in Anglophone Cameroonian Women’s Literature: A Feminist Analysis of Anne Tanyi-Tang’s Visiting America and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers 挑战喀麦隆英语女性文学中的不稳定工作——对唐安妮的《访美记》和伊姆波洛·姆布的《看,梦想家》的女权主义分析
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795353
Naomi Nkealah
Contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian women’s literature is concerned with the ways in which African immigrant women in the USA are compelled by the American economic system to take on nursing jobs in the absence of alternatives. The play Visiting America (2006) by Anne Tanyi-Tang and the novel Behold the Dreamers (2016) by Imbolo Mbue address this phenomenon by presenting women characters who are being coerced, literally and figuratively, to enter the field of nursing as the only means of survival in America. Applying the theoretical ideas of precarity and precariousness, this article analyses the two selected texts to illustrate the precariousness of nursing for immigrant women in the USA, the glamourisation of this precariousness, and women’s resistance of this glamourisation.
当代讲英语的喀麦隆妇女文学关注的是美国的非洲移民妇女在没有其他选择的情况下,被美国经济体系强迫从事护理工作的方式。唐(Anne Tanyi Tang)的戏剧《访问美国》(Visiting America)(2006)和姆布埃(Imbolo Mbue。本文运用不稳定和不稳定的理论思想,对所选的两篇文本进行分析,以说明美国移民女性护理的不稳定、这种不稳定的魅力化以及女性对这种魅力化的抵制。
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Precarity in Transit: Travellers by Helon Habila 运输中的不稳定:Helon Habila的《旅行者》
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795349
Helga Ramsey–Kurz
This article offers a reading of Helon Habila’s latest novel Travellers, which was inspired by the onset of the so-called European refugee crisis in 2013. The essay pays special attention to the embodied act of narration and its exploitation by Habila as a mode of cultivating a compassionate understanding of forcibly displaced persons and their often precarious lives in prolonged transit. The analysis follows Butler’s idea of narrative as a mode, on the one hand, of humanising lives violently erased, as they all too often are in the event of involuntary migration, and, on the other, of restoring to “the ethically conscious” world their “capacity to mourn”, where it has been undermined by the systematic denial of human suffering by the nation state and dominant asylum discourse. Theoretical as this approach may appear at first glance, the essay’s goal is to demonstrate that, for Habila’s protagonist, learning to listen to other people’s stories properly and compassionately means to distance himself from the abstract projections of refugee subjecthood he himself endorses as the cosmopolitan intellectual he represents at the outset.
本文阅读了海伦·哈比拉的最新小说《旅行者》,该小说的灵感来自2013年所谓的欧洲难民危机的爆发。这篇文章特别关注了哈比拉的具体叙述行为及其利用,以此作为一种模式,培养对被迫流离失所者及其在长期过境中往往岌岌可危的生活的同情理解。该分析遵循了巴特勒的叙事理念,一方面,将被暴力抹去的生命人性化,就像在非自愿移民的情况下一样,另一方面,恢复他们的“哀悼能力”,在那里,民族国家和占主导地位的庇护话语系统地否认人类苦难,破坏了它。尽管这种方法乍一看可能是理论性的,但这篇文章的目的是证明,对于哈比拉的主人公来说,学会正确而富有同情心地倾听别人的故事,意味着与他自己作为一开始所代表的世界性知识分子所认同的难民主体的抽象投射保持距离。
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Current Writing 33 (1) 2021 当前写作33 (1)2021
IF 0.1 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795357
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