Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202301008
Chao Ling
This essay reviews Zhang Longxi’s A History of Chinese Literature. The book covers Chinese literature from its very beginning to modern times. It emphasizes texts’ literary and aesthetic qualities when evaluating and historicizing literature. The book demonstrates the importance of canons in literary history, using Chinese tradition as an example. Therefore, it also brings the Chinese tradition into the broader framework of world literature. Reading Zhang’s concise historical overview of Chinese literature, we can better understand the interplay between literary tradition and the individual talent. Zhang Longxi has skillfully combined the writing of a history of literature with literary criticism in this book. Zhang’s successful attempt informs literary scholars of possible paradigms of compiling literary history in a post-cultural-studies theoretical context.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202301001
Larissa Moreira Fidalgo
By establishing a critical dialogue with the observations of David Damrosch in Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age concerning the challenges posed to Comparatism by the current state of the discipline, the question that we will address in the present work is, above all, a position on what it means to make a comparative study in a scenario marked by the reemergence of the phenomenon of world literature in literary studies. After directing our attention to The Longman Anthology of World Literature and The Norton Anthology of World Literature, we were able to see how both still describe an unequal system of legitimation and aesthetic configuration based on a Eurocentric division between the “inside” and the “outside.” And it is precisely in the ethical and political implications of this process of “opening” to the world that lies our proposal for approaching world literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202301013
J. Woodson
Cecily Swanson argues that “modernism’s Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies: Muriel Draper’s memoir, Music at Midnight; Margaret Anderson’s memoir, My Thirty Years’ War; and Kathryn Hulme’s autobiographical novel, We Lived As Children.” Swanson reads Draper, Anderson, and Hulme because they wrote as esotericists, while she divorces the memoirs from any overt esoteric influences, contents, or aesthetics. There is no need to search further for the source of the mode of the popular autobiographies by Anderson and Draper than what of Loos’s novel comes through the Peggy Hopkins Joyce/Zora Neale Hurston memoir. Marriage, Men, and Me appears near the commencement of a line of esoteric memoirs that becomes visible in the best-selling works by Draper and Anderson but then continues expansively.
塞西莉·斯旺森(Cecily Swanson)认为，“现代主义对葛吉夫的狂热实际上在被忽视的流行自传经典的发展中发挥了令人惊讶的作用:穆丽尔·德雷珀(Muriel Draper)的回忆录《午夜音乐》(Music at Midnight);玛格丽特·安德森的回忆录《我的三十年战争》;以及凯瑟琳·休姆的自传体小说《我们像孩子一样生活》。斯旺森阅读德雷珀、安德森和休姆的作品，因为他们是以神秘主义者的身份写作的，而她将回忆录与任何明显的神秘主义影响、内容或美学分离开来。没有必要进一步寻找安德森和德雷珀的流行自传模式的来源，因为卢斯的小说来自佩吉·霍普金斯·乔伊斯/佐拉·尼尔·赫斯顿的回忆录。《婚姻，男人和我》出现在德雷珀和安德森的畅销作品中出现的一系列深奥回忆录的开头，但随后继续扩大。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202301006
J. Jobim
This paper will present and discuss a few questions raised in David Damrosch’s Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age, a book that, divided into chapters based on some selected keywords, develops relevant thematic nuclei, bringing to the fore literary authors, critics, and theorists.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202007
Evelyn Amarillas Amaya
This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands: The New Mestiza, by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa, together with the short story “Olhos d’Agua” by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. In both works, there is an attempt to return to the indigenous tradition as a way of opposing Western male domination. Both writers, belonging to historically marginalized social groups and finding themselves in the middle of two cultures, take elements from precolonial cultures in their texts to propose a decolonized new way of understanding the world.
本文分析了奇卡纳作家Gloria Anzaldúa的《无主之地:新梅斯蒂萨》中的梅斯蒂索人意识，并结合巴西黑人作家concep o Evaristo的短篇小说《Olhos d’agua》。在这两部作品中，都试图回归本土传统，作为反对西方男性统治的一种方式。这两位作家都属于历史上被边缘化的社会群体，并发现自己处于两种文化的中间，他们在自己的文本中汲取了前殖民文化的元素，提出了一种非殖民化的理解世界的新方式。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202005
Lili Ma, Daoxian Zhong
This paper examines the non-human actants in Brian Castro’s novel The Garden Book, including nature, the human body, and human artifacts in light of Jane Bennett’s theory of vibrant matter and Castro’s own arguments about the status of objects. Castro subverts the life-matter binary in this novel, giving attentiveness and respect to material powers, as well as affect and empathy to objects, thus undermining anthropocentrism. In a pandemic era in which humans and non-humans are seen as more interconnected than ever, such empowerment and understanding are not only significant, but also necessary to build a harmonized community.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202003
Rejane Rocha
The Atlas of Brazilian Digital Literature is the first and the only digital archive of digital literature in Brazil to date. It reunites the documentation (taxonomic description, images, videos, interviews with the authors, and critical fortune) of 150 works and counting. This article reports the challenges related to the construction and maintenance of the Atlas, which led to the formation of the Brazilian Digital Literature Observatory, a research group dedicated to follow and critically analyze the production of Brazilian digital literature, to propose alternatives for its preservation, and to discuss the changes in the literary system at a time when print culture and digital culture coexist.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202013
H. Chen, Shilei Zhai
The translation equivalence between龍/lung and dragon as well as夷/i and barbarian embodies the way of discourse power competition between China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain with different discourse pedigrees and discourse systems. The translation equivalence between龍/lung and dragon was constructed by means of mutation and discourse rewriting, and the political implication and cultural value of龍/lung in Chinese context were ablated. The equivalence between 夷/i and barbarian in the English context was established through the translation manipulation of the British, and the meaning of夷/i was separated from the Chinese historical context forcibly. The British operated discourse mutation on core Chinese political discourses via translation manipulation to weaken the subjectivity of China and bring China into the modern international discourse system dominated by the West, providing support for the expansion and colonization of British imperial discourse. This research provides reference for dealing with the cultural characteristics and universality, and the relationship between subject and object of discourse in the translation of contemporary Chinese discourse.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202002
J. Schnapp
In this interview, Jeffrey Schnapp conceptualizes Digital Humanities, Knowledge Design and Experimental Humanities, seen as innovative frameworks, aimed at propitiating a radically new understanding of the current challenges of the contemporary world. The overwhelming presence of digital media and artificial intelligence is scrutinized by Schnapp in order to produce theory literally at the edge.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202202009
Jia Zhang
Known as the representative figure of black minstrelsy, Bert Williams’s revolutionary success on Broadway and in the Ziegfeld Follies created a landmark opportunity for black voices to be heard in high-profile setting in a white world. The performance most notably preferred by his white audiences was Williams’s minstrel song “Nobody,” which from Williams’s perspective was also an irreplaceable piece. Visually echoing his minstrel song, Williams’s cakewalk performance success in the 1890s laid the basis for the song’s popularity. Both the song and Williams’s carnivalesque performance blurred the color line and transcended black minstrel stereotypes by taking African Americans’ voices in the Jim Crow and lynching eras into serious consideration. However, though black minstrelsy has been largely misunderstood as exclusively racial stereotypes, what Bakhtin describes as the permeating carnivalesque inversion in black minstrel performance helps sharpen and clarify the double consciousness ideology between the burnt cork blackened face mask and the soul of black minstrel performers.
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