VON DER ‘MACHT, WELT ZU MACHEN’: RADIKALE DEMOKRATIE IN SHARON DODUA OTOOS ADAS RAUM*

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN
Alrik Daldrup
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Drawing on Jacques Rancièreʼs radical democratic concept of dissensus, my article centres on the epistemic, affective and verbal forms of resistance depicted in Sharon Dodua Otooʼs debut novel Adas Raum. In four diegetic narrative strands, a police order of the visible and the sayable damages and assimilates the characters’ lives. According to Jamika Ajalon, stories are lost in colonised space, but at the same time self-determined stories have been shared generation after generation in order to stay alive. The everyday of Ada, but also of supposedly minor characters, such as the survivors of the Irish famine Lizzie and Alfie, is not only the site of violent Othering. Interconnected through different historical eras, the characters imagine other worlds at the margins. They develop creative counter-strategies and safer spaces which can be understood, with Davina Cooper, as everyday utopias. I will show that the dissensual tension between experiencing the world as it is and the search for a better future can be seen as a central leitmotif of the novel. By giving back agency to marginalised subjects in narratives of resistance, Otoo's novel can be seen as an aesthetic artefact that brings to life world-making, dissensual images which political activists can appropriate in their fight for equality and freedom.

创造世界的力量":沙龙-多杜瓦-奥图的阿达斯空间* 中的激进民主
我的文章借鉴雅克-朗西埃(Jacques Rancière)激进民主的 "异议"(dissensus)概念,以莎伦-多杜瓦-奥图(Sharon Dodua Otoo)的处女作《阿达斯劳姆》(Adas Raum)中描绘的认识、情感和语言形式的反抗为中心。在四段影像叙事中,可见和可说的警察秩序破坏并同化了人物的生活。Jamika Ajalon 认为,故事在殖民化的空间中消失了,但与此同时,自我决定的故事却被一代又一代人分享,以保持生命力。艾达以及爱尔兰大饥荒幸存者莉齐和阿尔菲等本应是次要人物的日常生活,不仅是暴力他者化的场所。这些人物通过不同的历史时代相互联系,在边缘地带想象着其他世界。他们发展出创造性的反策略和更安全的空间,这可以和达维娜-库珀(Davina Cooper)一样被理解为日常乌托邦。我将说明,体验世界的现状与寻求更美好未来之间的矛盾可以被视为这部小说的核心主题。通过在反抗叙事中重新赋予边缘化主体以能动性,奥图的小说可被视为一种美学艺术品,它带来了创造世界的非感性形象,政治活动家在争取平等和自由的斗争中可以利用这些形象。
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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN-
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期刊介绍: - German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.
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