Trauma and the Dialectics of Recuperation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
K. Goddard, Sheena Goddard
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This article argues that Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) is unusual in contemporary fiction in that it suggests a way in which the lost past can be recuperated, both in the sense of being reclaimed and in the sense of healing past conflicts. The primary means by which this is shown to happen is through a dialectical encounter between the hitherto opposing groups or ideologies. The novel uses migrant distancing from the African past to ameliorate the pain experienced in that past and the close encounter between the two protagonists, Saleh Omar and Latif Mahmud, with long and bitter family histories, to explore how a dialectical relationship can be developed. By having to reframe past assumptions, each character must change not only his way of thinking about the other, but also about the past and himself. The theory used in the paper is mostly Hegelian, but also psychoanalytic.
古尔纳《海边》中的创伤与疗养辩证法
本文认为,Abdulrazak Gurnah的《海边》(2001)在当代小说中是不同寻常的,因为它提出了一种方法,即在收回的意义上和在治愈过去的冲突的意义上,失去的过去可以得到恢复。这种情况发生的主要手段是通过迄今为止对立的团体或意识形态之间的辩证相遇。小说通过移民与非洲过去的距离来缓解过去所经历的痛苦,并通过两位主人公萨利赫·奥马尔(Saleh Omar)和拉蒂夫·马哈茂德(Latif Mahmud)有着漫长而痛苦的家族史的亲密接触,探索如何发展一种辩证关系。通过重新构建过去的假设,每个角色不仅要改变对对方的看法,还要改变对过去和自己的看法。论文中使用的理论主要是黑格尔的,但也有精神分析的。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Literary Studies publishes and globally disseminates original and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. The Journal is an independent quarterly publication owned and published by the South African Literary Society in partnership with Unisa Press and Taylor & Francis. It is housed and produced in the division Theory of Literature at the University of South Africa and is accredited and subsidised by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training. The aim of the journal is to publish articles and full-length review essays informed by Literary Theory in the General Literary Theory subject area and mostly covering Formalism, New Criticism, Semiotics, Structuralism, Marxism, Poststructuralism, Psychoanalysis, Gender studies, New Historicism, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies, Reception Theory, Comparative Literature, Narrative Theory, Drama Theory, Poetry Theory, and Biography and Autobiography.
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