Equiano 的非洲卫理公会胃口:作为社区和反抗的宴饮和净化仪式

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN
Carole Lynn Stewart
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摘要:本文借鉴了食物研究、宗教史以及对埃奎亚诺宗教取向的研究,认为埃奎亚诺的《有趣的叙述》描述了一种与食物和仪式实践相关的克里奥尔化非洲和卫理公会禁欲主义。他在皈依前对摩拉维亚-卫理公会爱宴的介绍,与他早期在尼日利亚东部故乡对共餐和宴会习俗的文字回忆产生了共鸣。艾奎亚诺早期对宴会仪式的文字描述表明,他之所以被循道宗所吸引,是因为他经历了 "中间通道"(Middle Passage),以及他对伊博兰童年时期的宴会习俗、净化仪式、祭祀和献祭的记忆。艾奎亚诺的牺牲经历以及他对奴隶船上饥饿和绝食作为一种反抗形式的描写,标志着他对宗教和苦行取向的选择。他作为一名自由的黑人水手,一名大西洋克里奥尔人,在海洋中开垦,这促使他对温和的卫理公会取向和内心世界的禁欲主义产生了兴趣。
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Equiano's African Methodist Appetite: Feasting and Purification Rituals as Community and Resistance

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This article draws on food studies, religious history, and research on Equiano's religious orientation to argue that Equiano's Interesting Narrative describes a creolized African and Methodist asceticism in relation to food and ritual practice. His introduction to the Moravian-Methodist love feast before his conversion resonates with his earlier textual recollections of commensality and feasting practices in his eastern Nigerian homeland. Equiano's early textual descriptions of feasting rituals suggest that he was attracted to Methodism because of his experiences through the Middle Passage and his memories of feasting practices, purification rites, and sacrifices and offerings from his childhood in Igboland. Equiano's experiences of sacrifice and his portrayals of hunger and hunger strikes as a form of resistance on the slave ships mark his choice of religious and ascetic orientation. His reclamation of the ocean as a free Black sailor, an Atlantic Creole, contributes to his interest to a temperate Methodist orientation and inner-worldly asceticism.

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