僵尸的形象和大西洋彼岸的奴隶制记忆

Laennec Hurbon
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僵尸的形象暗示了想象与日常生活之间的一种特殊关系,其中前者是后者的一部分。在思考海地僵尸形象的出现时,我们必须牢记这一点。如果我们把僵尸的形象与奴隶制的“幸存形象”(乔治·迪迪-休伯曼所说的“来世”)联系起来,我们可以进一步思考它。主人把理想的奴隶想象成一个被掏空了构成他/她作为主体的一切的人。只有僵尸才有能力实现这一理想:这是僵尸想象的核心。在这篇文章中,我质疑现代僵尸想象的力量。我研究了为什么僵尸作为绝对权力的幻影继续出现在文学、电影和艺术中,以及它教给我们关于奴隶制记忆的东西。
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The figure of the zombie and the memory of slavery across the Atlantic
ABSTRACT The figure of the zombie implies a particular relationship between the imaginary and everyday life in which the former is part of the latter. This has to be kept in mind when reflecting on the emergence of the zombie figure in Haiti. The figure of the zombie can be further thought through if we see it in relation with the “surviving image” (“afterlife” in George Didi-Huberman’s sense) of slavery. The master imagines the ideal slave as a being emptied of everything that constitutes him/her as a subject. Only the zombie is capable of fulfilling this ideal: an idea that lies at the core of the zombie imaginary. In this essay, I interrogate the power of the modern zombie imaginary. I investigate why the zombie as a phantasmagory of absolute power continues to emerge in literature, cinema and the arts and what it teaches us about the memory of slavery.
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