VOCABULARY FOR AN UNTHINKABLE GRAMMAR: SHARON DODUA OTOO'S SYNCHRONICITY

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN
Stephanie Galasso
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Abstract

This article examines the eponymous notion of ‘synchronicity’ in Sharon Dodua Otoo's novella, Synchronicity: the original story. Drawing on Denise Ferreira da Silva's notion of Black Feminist ‘poethics’, I argue that ‘synchronicity’ might serve as a ‘guide’ for the imagination that also expands significant critiques of (post)-Enlightenment notions of temporality (e.g. those by Michelle M. Wright, Rei Terada and Christina Sharpe). It does so, I argue, by exposing the significance of temporality and the related notion of causality for racial constructions of the subject. The blending of temporalities and senses in Synchronicity de-centre the persistent Enlightenment construction of the subject as a causal agent, showing instead the dependence of existence on intricate cycles of loss and gain. To illustrate this, I offer a close reading of Synchronicity alongside analysis of its implicit critique of Enlightenment notions of being and thought. The novella, I argue, offers not only much-needed vocabulary for the contemporary moment and the synchronous vestiges of ‘past’ violence within it but also challenges the ‘modern political grammar’ (Silva) through which racial subjects emerge.

不可思议的语法词汇:沙龙-多杜瓦-奥图的同步性
本文探讨了莎伦-多杜瓦-奥图的长篇小说《同步性:原创故事》中的同名 "同步性 "概念。借鉴丹尼斯-费雷拉-达席尔瓦(Denise Ferreira da Silva)的黑人女权主义 "诗伦理学 "概念,我认为 "同步性 "可以作为想象力的 "指南",同时也扩展了对(后)启蒙运动时间性概念的重要批判(例如米歇尔-M-赖特(Michelle M. Wright)、寺田玲(Rei Terada)和克里斯蒂娜-夏普(Christina Sharpe)的批判)。我认为,它通过揭示时间性和相关的因果性概念对于种族主体建构的重要意义来达到这一目的。在《同步性》中,时间性和感官的交融去除了启蒙运动中将主体作为因果主体的顽固建构,而是显示了存在对错综复杂的得失循环的依赖。为了说明这一点,我在对《同步性》进行细读的同时,还分析了它对启蒙运动关于存在和思想的概念的隐含批判。我认为,这部长篇小说不仅为当代以及其中 "过去 "暴力的同步残余提供了亟需的词汇,还对 "现代政治语法"(席尔瓦语)提出了挑战,而种族主体正是通过这种语法产生的。
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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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