Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Yesterday: Eutopia, Dystopia and Violence in Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw's Tomorrow and Tomorrow

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
V. Burgmann, Andrew Milner
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abstract:Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) and Flora Eldershaw (1897–1956) were prolific Australian authors who co-wrote, under the pseudonym "M. Barnard Eldershaw," five novels and four works of nonfiction published between 1929 and 1947. Their final collaboration, a future fiction entitled Tomorrow and Tomorrow, first appeared in Melbourne in 1947 and was reissued by the London feminist publisher Virago in 1983. Lyman Tower Sargent's bibliography of Australian utopian fiction describes the novel thus: "Dystopia. Public opinion sampling used to limit liberty." This is a reasonable enough shorthand description of the novel's frame narrative, set in the "Tenth Commune" located somewhere in what is now the Riverina district on the border of New South Wales and Victoria, at some time in the twenty-fourth century. This article will argue, however, that the Tenth Commune is closer to a flawed eutopia than an outright dystopia; and that the novel's truly dystopian content lies in its core narrative, Knarf's novelistic account of mid-twentieth century Australia, which culminates in a quasi-apocalyptic destruction by fire of the city of Sydney. The extraordinary violence of this account will be contrasted to the essentially nonviolent character of the Tenth Commune and both will be situated in relation to Barnard's growing involvement in the pacifist Peace Pledge Union.
明天,明天和昨天:玛乔丽·巴纳德和弗洛拉·埃尔德肖的《明天和明天》中的乌托邦、反乌托邦和暴力
摘要:玛乔丽·巴纳德(1897-1987)和弗洛拉·埃尔德肖(1897-1956)是多产的澳大利亚作家,他们以笔名“M.Barnard Eldershaw”共同撰写了1929年至1947年间出版的五部小说和四部非小说作品。他们的最后一次合作是一部名为《明天与明天》的未来小说,1947年首次出现在墨尔本,1983年由伦敦女权主义出版商维拉戈重新发行。莱曼·塔尔·萨金特(Lyman Tower Sargent)的澳大利亚乌托邦小说参考书目这样描述这部小说:“反乌托邦。舆论抽样曾经限制自由。”这是对小说框架叙事的一个合理而简短的描述,故事发生在“第十公社”,该公社位于新南威尔士州和维多利亚州边界的里韦里纳区,在二十四世纪的某个时候。然而,这篇文章将争辩说,第十公社更接近于一个有缺陷的乌托邦,而不是一个彻底的反乌托邦;这部小说真正的反乌托邦内容在于它的核心叙事,克纳夫对20世纪中期澳大利亚的小说描述,最终以悉尼市被大火摧毁为准世界末日。这篇报道中的非同寻常的暴力行为将与第十公社本质上的非暴力性质形成对比,两者都与巴纳德越来越多地参与和平承诺联盟有关。
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