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“All I can See of My Country”: Representations of Precarity in Selected Poems of Mxolisi Nyezwa “我所能看到的我的国家”：Mxolisi Nyezwa诗歌选集中不稳定的表现
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795347
Kyle Allan
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引用次数: 1
Precarity, Protectedness and Power in Emmanuel Jal's WARchild: A Boy Soldier's Story 埃马纽埃尔·贾的《WARchild:一个男孩士兵的故事》中的不稳定、保护和权力
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795352
A. Gagiano
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“To Grasp the Gaping Grave:” Blackness, Death, and the Afterlife of Slavery in Unathi Slasha’s Jah Hills “抓住裂开的坟墓:”黑暗，死亡，以及Unathi Slasha的Jah Hills的奴隶的来世
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795346
Marzia Milazzo
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Feminist Protest and the Disruptive Address of Naked Bodies 女权主义者的抗议和对裸体的破坏
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795348
Sandra Young
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引用次数: 3
Lucy’s Precarious Privilege in Fiona Snyckers’s Lacuna Fiona·斯奈克斯小说中露西的不安全特权
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795344
R. A. Northover
{"title":"Lucy’s Precarious Privilege in Fiona Snyckers’s Lacuna","authors":"R. A. Northover","doi":"10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795344","url":null,"abstract":"The article applies both Judith Butler’s notion of precarity and her Freudian approach to an analysis of Fiona Snyckers’s novel Lacuna (2019a). Using Freudian psychoanalysis to analyse the structure of Lucy’s trauma and to trace the process of her healing, I argue that, although the process is uneven and its outcome partial, it traces a movement from the darkness of her trauma to the illumination, following her name, of its cause as part of the process of healing. Although she claims her novel gives voice to Lucy, the silenced rape survivor of J M Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), Snyckers has been accused of silencing the voices of the black victims of sexual violence and exploitation – those most exposed to precarity. However, I argue that one of Snyckers’s central concerns is to critique the privileges enjoyed by the white middle class.","PeriodicalId":52015,"journal":{"name":"Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795344","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44523855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Breaking the Chains of Slavery: Precarity, the Personal and the Political in Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man 打破奴隶制的枷锁：Nkosinathi Sithole《饥饿吞噬一个人》中的不稳定、个人和政治
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795340
C. Stobie
{"title":"Breaking the Chains of Slavery: Precarity, the Personal and the Political in Nkosinathi Sithole’s Hunger Eats a Man","authors":"C. Stobie","doi":"10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795340","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a literary analysis of a prize-winning South African novel, Hunger Eats a Man (2015), by Nkosinathi Sithole. I analyse the political and cultural history and sexual politics represented in the novel by employing a theoretical nexus of precarity studies as it intersects with feminist, subaltern and postcolonial studies, enabling challenges to Eurocentric models of the precariat. I outline the conditions creating the precarity of certain characters, textually compared to slavery, and the effects of the economic gap between the black middle class and the desperately poor, rural slum-dwellers. Poverty and the abuse of women are both seen as forms of inadmissible exploitation in the novel, although the text refutes the possibility of a natural alliance between the struggles against the two forms of oppression. Using the theoretical work of Pumla Dineo Gqola on rape, I focus on voice, perspective, agency, subversion and resistance in examining the novel’s representations of sexual abuse, rape and violent retribution. I note the implications of the story-within-a-story revolutionary narrative about the starving poor occupying the homes of the wealthy. Finally, I analyse the effects of techniques that shape readers positively, offering an ethical dimension that allows for social change.","PeriodicalId":52015,"journal":{"name":"Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795340","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41412574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
“LipServants” and Mutes: Experiencing Precarity Through the Commercial Control of Language in Tammy Baikie’s Critical Dystopia Selling LipService (2017) “嘴唇仆人”与哑巴:塔米·贝基的批判反乌托邦《卖嘴唇服务》(2017)中通过语言的商业控制体验不稳定性
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795345
Lynn Clarke
{"title":"“LipServants” and Mutes: Experiencing Precarity Through the Commercial Control of Language in Tammy Baikie’s Critical Dystopia Selling LipService (2017)","authors":"Lynn Clarke","doi":"10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795345","url":null,"abstract":"This article notes the relevance of Selling LipService by Tammy Baikie (2017) at the contemporary moment, as it deals with capitalism, consumerism, language, branding, communication and liberty. The novel’s dystopian setting reveals characters’ precarity caused by the commercial exploitation of language. The article deploys Judith Butler’s theories of precarity, amplified by reference to Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics. It further reveals the significance of theorists’ commentaries on language, branding and critical dystopianism, used as tools to investigate the novel. The article argues that Baikie’s critical dystopia highlights challenges to precarity through the original use of language and resistance by disaffected outsiders beyond the system, allowing readers to glimpse hopeful elements of social dreaming in and beyond the text.","PeriodicalId":52015,"journal":{"name":"Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48557973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Challenging Precarious Work in Anglophone Cameroonian Women’s Literature: A Feminist Analysis of Anne Tanyi-Tang’s Visiting America and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers 挑战喀麦隆英语女性文学中的不稳定工作——对唐安妮的《访美记》和伊姆波洛·姆布的《看，梦想家》的女权主义分析
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795353
Naomi Nkealah
{"title":"Challenging Precarious Work in Anglophone Cameroonian Women’s Literature: A Feminist Analysis of Anne Tanyi-Tang’s Visiting America and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers","authors":"Naomi Nkealah","doi":"10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795353","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian women’s literature is concerned with the ways in which African immigrant women in the USA are compelled by the American economic system to take on nursing jobs in the absence of alternatives. The play Visiting America (2006) by Anne Tanyi-Tang and the novel Behold the Dreamers (2016) by Imbolo Mbue address this phenomenon by presenting women characters who are being coerced, literally and figuratively, to enter the field of nursing as the only means of survival in America. Applying the theoretical ideas of precarity and precariousness, this article analyses the two selected texts to illustrate the precariousness of nursing for immigrant women in the USA, the glamourisation of this precariousness, and women’s resistance of this glamourisation.","PeriodicalId":52015,"journal":{"name":"Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48776701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Precarity in Transit: Travellers by Helon Habila 运输中的不稳定:Helon Habila的《旅行者》
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795349
Helga Ramsey–Kurz
{"title":"Precarity in Transit: Travellers by Helon Habila","authors":"Helga Ramsey–Kurz","doi":"10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795349","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a reading of Helon Habila’s latest novel Travellers, which was inspired by the onset of the so-called European refugee crisis in 2013. The essay pays special attention to the embodied act of narration and its exploitation by Habila as a mode of cultivating a compassionate understanding of forcibly displaced persons and their often precarious lives in prolonged transit. The analysis follows Butler’s idea of narrative as a mode, on the one hand, of humanising lives violently erased, as they all too often are in the event of involuntary migration, and, on the other, of restoring to “the ethically conscious” world their “capacity to mourn”, where it has been undermined by the systematic denial of human suffering by the nation state and dominant asylum discourse. Theoretical as this approach may appear at first glance, the essay’s goal is to demonstrate that, for Habila’s protagonist, learning to listen to other people’s stories properly and compassionately means to distance himself from the abstract projections of refugee subjecthood he himself endorses as the cosmopolitan intellectual he represents at the outset.","PeriodicalId":52015,"journal":{"name":"Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795349","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41396969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Current Writing 33 (1) 2021 当前写作33 (1)2021
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Current Writing-Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2020.1795357
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