沙龙-多杜瓦-奥图和奥利维亚-温泽尔的小说中的母亲和其他人

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN
Sarah Colvin
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在本文中,我认为莎伦-多杜瓦-奥图(Sharon Dodua Otoo)和奥利维亚-温泽尔(Olivia Wenzel)在近期的小说中使用了 "母性 "这一特例,以唤起一种解放的冲动,而这种冲动与承认制约或联系是矛盾的。我认为,奥图和文泽尔利用美学手段颠覆了性别和种族神话,以及关于谁能提供养育的控制性假设,以不同于西方对理想化的一对一关系的期望的方式重新诠释了母性。米歇尔-赖特(Michelle Wright)将黑人母性分析为颠覆性机构的诗歌特例,特蕾莎-华盛顿(Theresa Washington)探讨了非裔美国女性写作中的西非 "Ájè "概念,弗朗辛-怀恩(Francine Wynn)则提出了 "chiastic "母婴关系的概念。它可以被解读为另一种认识论话语的基础形象,而这种认识论话语并不依赖于对差异的掌握。
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MOTHERS AND OTHERS IN FICTION BY SHARON DODUA OTOO AND OLIVIA WENZEL

In this article I argue that in recent novels by Sharon Dodua Otoo and Olivia Wenzel the trope of motherhood is engaged to evoke an emancipatory impulse that is paradoxically linked to acknowledging constraint or connectedness. Motherhood is an idea burdened by historical stereotypes, and I argue that Otoo and Wenzel use aesthetic means to subvert gendered and racialising mythologies and controlling assumptions about who can provide nurturing, reinscribing motherhood in ways that depart from Western expectations of an idealised one-on-one relation. Building on Michelle Wright's analysis of Black motherhood as a poetic trope of subversive agency, Theresa Washington's exploration of the West African concept of Ájè in African American women's writing, and Francine Wynn's conception of the chiastic mother-infant relation, I suggest that Otoo and Wenzel show how the trope of motherhood can not only be subversive but (perhaps appropriately) epistemically generative. It can be read as a foundational image for a different epistemological discourse that does not depend on the mastery of difference.

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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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