Breaking the Surface: Mermaids and the Middle Passage

4区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-15 DOI:10.13110/MARVELSTALES.35.1.0079

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Abstract

Abstract:Informed by early African American and African accounts, the mermaid figure in Robert San Souci and Brian Pinkney's Sukey and the Mermaid (1992) speaks to issues of enslavement and liberation, particularly in the ways the character can be read as evocatively depicting African nature spirits known as simbi. I further argue that the image of the black merfigure ultimately comments on the Middle Passage by repositioning the relationship of the black body and the ocean, the merfigure subverting confinement and death to become her/his own vessel. Such exploration places this book within larger discussions of merfigures in diverse cultural frameworks.

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打破水面:美人鱼和中间通道

摘要:Robert San Souci和Brian Pinkney的《Sukey and the mermaid》(1992)讲述了早期的非裔美国人和非洲人的故事，其中的美人鱼形象讲述了奴役和解放的问题，尤其是这个角色可以被解读为唤起人们对非洲自然精神的描述，即辛比。我进一步认为，黑人人鱼的形象最终通过重新定位黑人身体与海洋的关系来评论《中间航道》，人鱼颠覆了禁闭和死亡，成为她/他自己的船只。这样的探索将本书置于对不同文化框架下的人物的更大讨论中。

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期刊介绍： Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.