孟格斯图《天堂承载的美好事物》中的阅读自我

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LITERATURE MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2023.a905748

Emad Mirmotahari

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摘要:本文认为，迪诺·孟格斯图的小说《天堂承载的美好事物》证明了阅读和阅读行为——广义的、多种文本和文本类型——如何成为小说叙述者塞法的一种身份认同。叙述者是一名埃塞俄比亚移民流亡者，定居在华盛顿特区，无法与白人或黑人美国人或其他埃塞俄比亚人和非洲人伪造身份。阅读构成了叙述者理解自己处境的方式，并使自己与不属于任何人类集体的自我和解。

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The Reading Self in Dinaw Mengestu's The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Abstract:This essay argues that Dinaw Mengestu's novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears testifies to how reading and reading acts—broadly defined and of a variety of texts and text types—becomes an identity in and of itself for the novel's narrator, Sepha. The narrator is an Ethiopian immigrant-exile who settles in Washington DC and is unable to forge identifications with white or Black Americans, or with other Ethiopians and Africans. Reading constitutes the narrator's way to make sense of his conditions and reconcile himself with his unbelonging to any human collective.

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.