{"title":"地下室、酒吧和墓地：探索托尼·莫里森家中的另类幻想和暴力","authors":"Lauren M. Brown","doi":"10.1353/sdn.2023.0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an interview, Toni Morrison explains her choice to set the novel Home (2012) in 1950s America; often thought of as a \"golden age,\" Morrison asserts, \"I think we forgot what was really going on in the [19]50s,\" a comment which evokes the dual notions of state—that is, national and psychological—at work in national and cultural memory. In this vein, using Donald E. Pease's theoretical discussion of state fantasy from The New American Exceptionalism (2009) as a point of departure, this article situates close readings of violence in Home within philosophical discussions of \"bare life\" and \"ungrievability\" as advanced by Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, respectively, and unites these with historical research on eugenic sterilization practices in the US to explore various destructions of life perpetrated within the legitimating context of American exceptionalism domestically and internationally. Finally, through analysis of various sites that exist at a remove from the dominant exceptionalist landscape such as basements, the jazz bar, burial plots, and the community of Lotus, the essay explores alternative figurations to nation and community that Home presents.","PeriodicalId":54138,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","volume":"55 1","pages":"37 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Basements, Bars, and Burials: Exploring Exceptionalist Fantasy and Violence in Toni Morrison's Home\",\"authors\":\"Lauren M. Brown\",\"doi\":\"10.1353/sdn.2023.0002\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"Abstract:In an interview, Toni Morrison explains her choice to set the novel Home (2012) in 1950s America; often thought of as a \\\"golden age,\\\" Morrison asserts, \\\"I think we forgot what was really going on in the [19]50s,\\\" a comment which evokes the dual notions of state—that is, national and psychological—at work in national and cultural memory. In this vein, using Donald E. Pease's theoretical discussion of state fantasy from The New American Exceptionalism (2009) as a point of departure, this article situates close readings of violence in Home within philosophical discussions of \\\"bare life\\\" and \\\"ungrievability\\\" as advanced by Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, respectively, and unites these with historical research on eugenic sterilization practices in the US to explore various destructions of life perpetrated within the legitimating context of American exceptionalism domestically and internationally. Finally, through analysis of various sites that exist at a remove from the dominant exceptionalist landscape such as basements, the jazz bar, burial plots, and the community of Lotus, the essay explores alternative figurations to nation and community that Home presents.\",\"PeriodicalId\":54138,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL\",\"volume\":\"55 1\",\"pages\":\"37 - 57\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.5000,\"publicationDate\":\"2023-03-01\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"0\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"1085\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.0002\",\"RegionNum\":2,\"RegionCategory\":\"文学\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"0\",\"JCRName\":\"LITERATURE\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN THE NOVEL","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sdn.2023.0002","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
Basements, Bars, and Burials: Exploring Exceptionalist Fantasy and Violence in Toni Morrison's Home
Abstract:In an interview, Toni Morrison explains her choice to set the novel Home (2012) in 1950s America; often thought of as a "golden age," Morrison asserts, "I think we forgot what was really going on in the [19]50s," a comment which evokes the dual notions of state—that is, national and psychological—at work in national and cultural memory. In this vein, using Donald E. Pease's theoretical discussion of state fantasy from The New American Exceptionalism (2009) as a point of departure, this article situates close readings of violence in Home within philosophical discussions of "bare life" and "ungrievability" as advanced by Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, respectively, and unites these with historical research on eugenic sterilization practices in the US to explore various destructions of life perpetrated within the legitimating context of American exceptionalism domestically and internationally. Finally, through analysis of various sites that exist at a remove from the dominant exceptionalist landscape such as basements, the jazz bar, burial plots, and the community of Lotus, the essay explores alternative figurations to nation and community that Home presents.
期刊介绍：
From its inception, Studies in the Novel has been dedicated to building a scholarly community around the world-making potentialities of the novel. Studies in the Novel started as an idea among several members of the English Department of the University of North Texas during the summer of 1965. They determined that there was a need for a journal “devoted to publishing critical and scholarly articles on the novel with no restrictions on either chronology or nationality of the novelists studied.” The founding editor, University of North Texas professor of contemporary literature James W. Lee, envisioned a journal of international scope and influence. Since then, Studies in the Novel has staked its reputation upon publishing incisive scholarship on the canon-forming and cutting-edge novelists that have shaped the genre’s rich history. The journal continues to break new ground by promoting new theoretical approaches, a broader international scope, and an engagement with the contemporary novel as a form of social critique.
京公网安备 11010802042870号
京ICP备2023020795号-1
分享
求助内容：
应助结果提醒方式：
扫码关注我们
