2022 年理查德-比厄-戴维斯奖

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN
Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz, Michelle Sizemore
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Known as \"the blood cry,\" cruentation functions as a postmortem method of investigation joining the corporeal expressions of blood and speech. A sign from God, the blood cry becomes incontrovertible legal evidence that privileges the voices of deceased infants over and above the voices of accused mothers \"in a move anticipating fetal personhood claims of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries\" (86). In effect, Rosen argues, infanticide sermons and their cultural narratives raise the status of dead infants to public speakers and citizens while relegating women suspects to nonentities. Among its many strengths, Rosen's essay draws attention to the dead body as authoritative material evidence after the Salem Witch Trials, earning cruentation a place in Puritan judicial inquiry tantamount to the <strong>[End Page 7]</strong> spectral evidence in the trials. Rosen's attentiveness to the archive of infanticide sermons and other execution literature, as well as her commitment to reading her sources against the louder words of the famous Mathers, demonstrate the force of the blood cry in stifling condemned women or else permitting their speech only in acts of self-condemnation. Above all, the essay skillfully recontextualizes and historicizes Christian investments in voice as a metonymy for subjectivity, tracing how those investments in future children have long come at the cost of care for the adults, usually women, responsible for bearing them. For the committee, this work could not have been more powerful or timely.</p> <p>Camille Owens's article, \"'I, Young in Life,\" centers Phillis Wheatley in the social and political invention of early American childhood. Owens traces Wheatley's formative role in shifting cultural perceptions of white children from the unsentimental figures of previous centuries to cherished beings imbued with innocence and dependent on maternal comfort and care. Perhaps the most compelling feature of the essay is its exposure of \"childhood's foundational role in the Anglo-American racial order\" and its illumination of Wheatley's \"strategic awareness of childhood's emergent power\" (729). Through personal and poetic prowess, Owens argues, Wheatley challenges the racial hierarchy by commanding the racial politics of childhood, including her claim to the Lockean blank slate, a privileged state of impressionability granted to white children but denied to Black children and to be nurtured by the education further denied to Black children. 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以下是内容的简要摘录,以代替摘要: 理查德-比厄-戴维斯奖 2022 塔拉-拜纳姆、安娜-施瓦茨(简历)和米歇尔-西泽摩尔获奖:丽贝卡-罗森 荣誉奖2022 年理查德-比厄-戴维斯奖授予丽贝卡-罗森(Rebecca Rosen),以表彰她在第 57 卷《早期美国文学》中发表的"'无辜之血的声音从地下响彻天堂'"一文中的杰出贡献:早期美国东北部的弑婴言论与发现"。卡米尔-欧文斯(Camille Owens)的作品"'我,年轻的生命':菲利斯-惠特利与美国童年的发明"。这些文章因其独创性、丰富的档案资料和敏锐的洞察力而堪称典范,最重要的是,由于这些调查所做的杰出基础工作,这些未被充分研究的主题现在肯定会在该领域得到应有的重视。丽贝卡-罗森(Rebecca Rosen)在其引人入胜的研究"'无辜者的血声从地下响彻天堂'"中,探讨了 17 世纪晚期和 18 世纪杀婴文学中的一种证词形式--"流血"(相信尸体在凶手附近流血)。被称为 "血哭 "的 "血哭 "是一种死后调查方法,将血液和语言的肉体表达结合在一起。作为上帝的征兆,血哭成为无可争辩的法律证据,使死亡婴儿的声音享有高于被告母亲声音的特权,"此举预示着 20 世纪和 21 世纪初的胎儿人格主张"(86)。罗森认为,实际上,杀婴布道及其文化叙事将死亡婴儿的地位提升到公众发言人和公民的地位,而将女性嫌疑人贬为非实体。罗森的文章有许多优点,其中之一是在塞勒姆女巫审判之后,尸体作为权威物证引起了人们的关注,使杀婴在清教徒的司法调查中获得了与审判中的幽灵证据 [第7页完] 不相上下的地位。罗森对杀婴布道和其他行刑文献档案的关注,以及她致力于对照著名的马瑟斯的大声疾呼来解读她的资料来源,显示了血腥呐喊在扼杀被定罪妇女或只允许她们在自责行为中发言方面的力量。最重要的是,这篇文章巧妙地将基督教对声音的投资重新语境化并历史化,将声音作为主体性的隐喻,追溯了这些对未来孩子的投资是如何长期以照顾负责生育孩子的成年人(通常是妇女)为代价的。对于委员会来说,这项工作再有力不过了,也再及时不过了。卡米尔-欧文斯(Camille Owens)的文章《我,年轻的生命》将菲利斯-惠特利置于美国早期童年社会和政治发明的中心。欧文斯追溯了惠特利在转变白人儿童的文化观念方面所起的作用,惠特利将白人儿童从之前几个世纪的不感性形象转变为充满纯真、依赖母性安慰和关爱的珍爱生命。这篇文章最引人入胜之处或许在于揭示了 "童年在英美种族秩序中的基础性作用",并阐明了惠特利 "对童年新兴力量的战略意识"(729)。欧文斯认为,惠特利通过个人和诗歌才能挑战了种族等级制度,掌控了童年的种族政治,包括她对洛克式白板的主张,即白人儿童享有但黑人儿童却被剥夺的可印象性特权状态,以及黑人儿童进一步被剥夺的教育培养。最终,欧文斯展示了惠特利重估黑人儿童价值的努力,以及将黑人儿童和黑人家庭定格为 "暴政与自由斗争的关键场所"(744)的政治利害关系。即使白人至上主义的感伤政治无法容忍她对黑人儿童的颠覆性感伤描写,这些描写也将成为美国黑人文学的重要遗产。欧文斯的文章恢复了惠特利对美国童年文化的干预,为惠特利研究和童年研究做出了新鲜而有活力的贡献。[安娜-施瓦茨(Ana Schwartz) 安娜-施瓦茨在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校教授美国文学。她著有《Unmoored:Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America》(Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and U of North Carolina P, 2023)一书的作者。
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Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022
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  • Richard Beale Davis Prize for 2022
  • Tara Bynum, Ana Schwartz (bio), and Michelle Sizemore

Awarded to: Rebecca Rosen

Honorable Mention: Camille Owens

From the magnificent volume of essays published in volume 57 of Early American Literature, the 2022 Richard Beale Davis Prize is awarded to Rebecca Rosen for "'The Voice of the Innocent Blood Cries Aloud from the Ground to Heaven': Speaking and Discovering Infanticide in the Early American Northeast." The prize committee gives the distinction of Honorable Mention to Camille Owens for "'I, Young in Life': Phillis Wheatley and the Invention of American Childhood." These essays are exemplary for their originality as well as their archival heft and acumen—most of all, for bringing to the fore underexamined topics now certain to have their due in the field owing to the remarkable groundwork of these investigations.

In her riveting study "'The Voice of the Innocent Blood Cries Aloud from the Ground to Heaven,'" Rebecca Rosen examines cruentation (the belief that a corpse bleeds in proximity of the murderer) as a form of testimony in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century infanticide literature. Known as "the blood cry," cruentation functions as a postmortem method of investigation joining the corporeal expressions of blood and speech. A sign from God, the blood cry becomes incontrovertible legal evidence that privileges the voices of deceased infants over and above the voices of accused mothers "in a move anticipating fetal personhood claims of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries" (86). In effect, Rosen argues, infanticide sermons and their cultural narratives raise the status of dead infants to public speakers and citizens while relegating women suspects to nonentities. Among its many strengths, Rosen's essay draws attention to the dead body as authoritative material evidence after the Salem Witch Trials, earning cruentation a place in Puritan judicial inquiry tantamount to the [End Page 7] spectral evidence in the trials. Rosen's attentiveness to the archive of infanticide sermons and other execution literature, as well as her commitment to reading her sources against the louder words of the famous Mathers, demonstrate the force of the blood cry in stifling condemned women or else permitting their speech only in acts of self-condemnation. Above all, the essay skillfully recontextualizes and historicizes Christian investments in voice as a metonymy for subjectivity, tracing how those investments in future children have long come at the cost of care for the adults, usually women, responsible for bearing them. For the committee, this work could not have been more powerful or timely.

Camille Owens's article, "'I, Young in Life," centers Phillis Wheatley in the social and political invention of early American childhood. Owens traces Wheatley's formative role in shifting cultural perceptions of white children from the unsentimental figures of previous centuries to cherished beings imbued with innocence and dependent on maternal comfort and care. Perhaps the most compelling feature of the essay is its exposure of "childhood's foundational role in the Anglo-American racial order" and its illumination of Wheatley's "strategic awareness of childhood's emergent power" (729). Through personal and poetic prowess, Owens argues, Wheatley challenges the racial hierarchy by commanding the racial politics of childhood, including her claim to the Lockean blank slate, a privileged state of impressionability granted to white children but denied to Black children and to be nurtured by the education further denied to Black children. Ultimately, Owens shows the political stakes of Wheatley's efforts to revalue the Black child and to frame Black children and Black families as "key sites in the struggle between tyranny and freedom" (744). Even as the white supremacist politics of sentimentality could not countenance her subversive sentimental depictions of Black children, these depictions would become an important legacy for African American literature. In recovering Wheatley's interventions in the culture of American childhood, Owens's essay makes a fresh and dynamic contribution to both Wheatley studies and childhood studies. [End Page 8]

Ana Schwartz

ana schwartz teaches American literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and U of North Carolina P, 2023), and is at...

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