The Poetry of Belonging: Episodic Memory and the Shades

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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI:10.1080/1013929X.2019.1619275

C. Mann

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Abstract

Neural science and cognitive psychology have in recent years established the fundamental importance of episodic memory in the formation of an individual’s personal and social identity. These models of understanding help to explain the widespread prevalence of the shades in numerous cultural and literary traditions, including those in contemporary South Africa. This paper applies these findings to the appearance of the shades in the work of poets as diverse as Homer, Dante, Hardy and Vilakazi, and argues that a fuller recognition of the universality of the shades challenges the inward and spiritual apartheid of individuals in a globalised world fissured by recalcitrant identity politics.

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归属诗：情节记忆与阴影

近年来，神经科学和认知心理学已经确立了情景记忆在个人和社会身份形成中的根本重要性。这些理解模式有助于解释阴影在许多文化和文学传统中的广泛流行，包括在当代南非。本文将这些发现应用于荷马、但丁、哈迪和维拉卡齐等不同诗人作品中阴影的出现，并认为在一个被顽固的身份政治分裂的全球化世界中，对阴影的普遍性的更充分认识挑战了个人内在和精神上的种族隔离。

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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.