我们从哪里呼吸?空气的缺席与黑暗

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE SUB-STANCE Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.1353/sub.2023.a900552
Delali Kumavie
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在一场针对呼吸系统的持续全球大流行中,获得空气、呼吸和生命已成为持续系统性不平等和排斥的隐喻。正如Achille Mbembe所指出的,这一时刻使呼吸成为一种“基本生存权”,不能“被没收,从而逃避所有主权”(62)。然而,作为人类生命的基本基础,在跨大西洋奴隶贸易期间,通过殖民主义和帝国主义政权,以及在目前国家批准的警察谋杀黑人妇女、男子和儿童的过程中,呼吸在历史上一直是种族恐怖的场所。换言之,对呼吸和空气的剥夺和武器化往往会对黑人的身体产生影响。Kimberly Bain观察到,黑人的呼吸困难并不是什么新鲜事,它的暴力行为在捕获奴隶、扣押船只以及剥夺全球黑人空气和呼吸的重复形式和结构中反复回响(241)。在这篇文章中,我质疑黑人的身体是如何被形象地和字面地剥夺空气的。我将空中的缺席与非洲偷渡者在飞机上的叙述(以及后来的壮观)进行了比较,将其融入跨大西洋奴隶贸易的架构中。我把重点放在偷渡者的语言上,认为这是一个带有跨大西洋奴隶制痕迹的种族化指数,我认为,无空气和呼吸困难的基础是黑人的事实,一个不断扩大的档案,汇聚在全球边界。
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From Where Do We Draw Breath? Air's Absence and Blackness
Amid an ongoing global pandemic that targets the respiratory system, access to air, to breath, and to life has become a metaphor for ongoing systemic inequalities and exclusions. It is a moment, as Achille Mbembe notes, that renders breath a “fundamental right to existence” that cannot be “confiscated and thereby eludes all sovereignty” (62). Yet, as the fundamental ground on which human life is premised, breath has—during the transatlantic slave trade, through regimes of colonialism and imperialism, and continuing through the present in state-sanctioned murders of Black women, men, and children by the police—functioned historically as a site of racial terror. In other words, the deprivation and weaponization of breath and air often constellate at the Black body. Kimberly Bain observes that Black breathlessness is nothing new, and that its violence echoes repeatedly across the capture of slaves, the hold of the ship, and the repeated forms and structures that deprive Black people globally of air and breath (241). In this essay, I interrogate how the Black body has been figuratively and literally deprived of air. I compare how air’s absence is structured into the architecture of the transatlantic slave trade with the narrativization (and later spectacularization) of African stowaways on airplanes. By focusing on the language of the stowaway as accruing a racializing index that bears the traces of transatlantic slavery, I argue that at the foundations of airlessness and breathlessness is the fact of blackness, an ever-expanding archive that converges at the global border.
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