非裔未来派圣诞长篇小说《Synchronicity》(2015 年)中的黑人与失能/残疾问题,作者 Sharon Dodua Otoo*

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN
joseph kebe-nguema
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莎伦-多杜瓦-奥图(Sharon Dodua Otoo)的非洲未来派圣诞长篇小说《同步》(Synchronicity)中的主人公查理是一位加纳裔黑人单身母亲,在柏林从事平面设计工作。有一天,她开始失去看颜色的能力,但她不能透露这种家族特有的残疾,因为这会对她的职业和物质生活造成影响。查理开始了自我反省之旅,在这一过程中,她将意识到,最初看似是一种损失的东西,实际上可能是一种不幸中的万幸。我的文章从 DisCrit(一种将残疾研究与种族批判理论联系起来的理论方法)的视角分析了《同步》中黑人与残疾的交集,并认为奥图的长篇小说成功地描绘了与隐形残疾的发病以及黑人和散居经验有关的交集,而对这部长篇小说的非洲未来主义解读则让我们将其视为一个基于希望、自我接纳和对社区需求的故事。
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BLACKNESS AND DIS/ABILITY IN THE AFROFUTURIST CHRISTMAS NOVELLA SYNCHRONICITY (2015) BY SHARON DODUA OTOO*

Charlie, the main character in Sharon Dodua Otoo's Afrofuturist Christmas novella Synchronicity, is a Black single mother of Ghanaian heritage working as a graphic designer in Berlin who has spent her whole life feeling the constraints of her ancestral traditions. When one day she starts losing her ability to see colours, she cannot disclose that family-specific dis/ability since it would have professional and material consequences. Charlie embarks on a journey of self-reflection, in the course of which she will realise that something that at first seemed to be a loss could, in fact, be a blessing in disguise. My essay analyses the intersection of Blackness and dis/ability in Synchronicity through the lens of DisCrit: a theoretical approach associating Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory, and argues that Otoo's novella manages to effectively depict the intersections regarding the onset of an invisible dis/abilty as well as Blackness and diasporic experiences, while an Afrofuturist reading of the novella allows us to consider it as a story based on hope, self-acceptance and the need for community.

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GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN-
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期刊介绍: - German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.
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