A Moving Targetis Harderto Hit: Border-Crossingasa Resistance Weapon in Jackie Kay’s The Smuggled Person’s Tale

Francisco Fuentes Antrás
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The sovereign State system relies on the idea that all the territory of the world is divided into separate spaces, which are controlled by distinct sovereign governments that make and enforce laws in those territories (Agnew and Corbridge 1995; Jones 2012). Along these lines, Reece Jones claims that those individuals who defy the national demarcations through cross-border movement can be approached as resistant subjects who “disrupt the clean, territorially-based identity categories of the State by evading State surveillance systems and creating alternative networks of connection outside State territoriality” (Jones 2012: 689). In this article, I will analyze the short story “The Smuggled Person’s Tale” (2017), written by Jackie Kay and included in the short story collection Refugee Tales (2017). I argue that this narrative portrays a literary voice of a refugee who, in the need for leaving Afghanistan because of political and social conflicts, defies the sovereign State system by avoiding territorial entrapment through a constant border-crossing. His journey across nations allows him to break the national borders’ dichotomies (in-out / native-immigrant / citizen-exile) (Bhabha 1994; Rojas 2006; Jones 2012; Konrad 2015), thus achieving a nomadic consciousness and reclaiming his right to redefine himself as a global citizen.
移动的目标更难击中:在成龙的《偷渡者的故事》中,越境是一种抵抗武器
主权国家体系依赖于这样一种观念,即世界上所有的领土都被划分成独立的空间,这些空间由不同的主权政府控制,这些主权政府在这些领土上制定和执行法律(Agnew and Corbridge 1995;琼斯2012年)。沿着这些思路,里斯·琼斯(Reece Jones)声称,那些通过跨境流动藐视国家界限的个人可以被视为抵抗主体,他们“通过逃避国家监视系统和在国家领土之外创建替代的联系网络,破坏了国家干净的、基于领土的身份类别”(Jones 2012: 689)。在本文中,我将分析短篇小说《偷渡者的故事》(2017),这是杰基·凯创作的短篇小说,收录在短篇小说集《难民故事》(2017)中。我认为,这种叙述描绘了由于政治和社会冲突而需要离开阿富汗的难民的文学声音,他通过不断的越境来避免领土陷入困境,从而藐视主权国家制度。他的跨国旅行使他打破了国家边界的二分法(入境/出境/本土移民/公民流亡)(Bhabha 1994;罗哈斯2006;琼斯2012年;Konrad 2015),从而实现了游牧意识,并收回了将自己重新定义为全球公民的权利。
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