Re-examining Ubuntu as a Tool for Social Cohesion: The Silenced Immigrant Voice and Unjustifiable “Moral Arrival” of the Migrant in Post-apartheid City Writing by Mpe, Duiker, Moele, and Beukes

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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2020.1743028

A. Duvenage

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Underpinned by Leonard Praeg’s notion of “ontological betrayal” in ubuntu as lived-praxis, this article argues that post-apartheid “city writing” by Phaswane Mpe, K Sello Duiker, Kgebetli Moele and Lauren Beukes humanises “migrants” (those who journey to the South African city from rural South Africa) while neglecting “immigrants”, or black-African arrivals from outside the borders of South Africa. Consequently, a re-examination of the structure and function of ubuntu as a tool for social cohesion is necessary to counter negrophobic and xenophobic versions of an authentic “African” identity.

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重新审视作为社会凝聚力工具的乌班图:种族隔离后城市中被沉默的移民之声和移民不合理的“道德到来”，作者:Mpe、Duiker、Moele和Beukes

在Leonard Praeg的“本体论背叛”的基础上，这篇文章认为，后种族隔离时代，Phaswane Mpe、K Sello Duiker、Kgebetli Moele和Lauren Beukes的“城市写作”人性化了“移民”(那些从南非农村来到南非城市的人)，而忽视了“移民”，即来自南非边境以外的非洲黑人。因此，重新审视作为社会凝聚力工具的乌班图的结构和功能是必要的，以对抗真正的“非洲”身份的黑人恐惧症和仇外版本。

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期刊介绍： Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa is published bi-annually by Routledge. Current Writing focuses on recent writing and re-publication of texts on southern African and (from a ''southern'' perspective) commonwealth and/or postcolonial literature and literary-culture. Works of the past and near-past must be assessed and evaluated through the lens of current reception. Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed by at least two referees of international stature in the field. The journal is accredited with the South African Department of Higher Education and Training.