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摘要
南苏丹建国后出现了一种自相矛盾的局面:一个在斗争中团结一致的国家在独立后四分五裂。造成这种局面的导火索之一是国家的开国元勋约翰-加朗-德-马比奥博士的去世。本文以南苏丹建国历史为背景,对 Akuol de Mabior 的电影《回家的路》(2023 年)进行了多学科符号学批判。作者不主张进行政治科学分析,但提出南苏丹的国家危机是寻求统一偶像的征兆。他将主人公的母性精髓理论化为一种符号学姿态,表明她在法律上是统一国家的偶像。
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema: The Iconicity of Motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023)
Post-cessation nationhood in South Sudan presented a paradoxical situation: a country united during struggle is fragmented after independence. Among the triggers for this scenario was the death of Dr John Garang de Mabior—the country’s founding father. This article is a multidisciplinary semiotic critique of Akuol de Mabior’s film, No Simple Way Home (2023), against the history of South Sudanese nationhood. Without claiming a political scientific analysis, the author proposes that South Sudan’s crisis of nationhood is symptomatic of a quest for a unifying icon. He theorizes the protagonist’s quintessence of motherhood as a semiotic gesture of her de jure iconicity of unified nationhood.
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African Studies Review (ASR) is the flagship scholarly journal of the African Studies Association (USA). The ASR publishes the highest quality African studies scholarship in all academic disciplines. The ASR’s rigorous interdisciplinary peer review seeks to contribute to the development of scholarly conversations of interest to the diverse audience of the Association’s membership and to the growth of African studies in North America, on the African continent, and in a global comparative context.