牙买加叛乱纪事》:伪《圣经》风格与牙买加原民族主义

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Stephen C. Russell
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牙买加 1865 年莫兰特湾叛乱现在被广泛认为是大西洋世界历史上的分水岭,它从根本上影响了关于牙买加在大英帝国内的政治和法律地位的讨论。在此,我分析了犹太报纸编辑西德尼-莱维恩(Sidney Levien)以伪《圣经》风格撰写的鲜为人知的叛乱记述,其中几乎每一句话都与《圣经》詹姆士王版本的语言相呼应。我将列维恩的叙述归入一种文学传统,即用伪圣经风格描述当代政治生活,尤其是美国的政治生活。由历史学家埃兰-沙勒夫(Eran Shalev)确定的这一文学传统将当代政治移植到与圣经相关的事件中。通过使用伪圣经风格,列维恩提升了牙买加在十九世纪政治想象中的重要性。虽然许多人将叛乱概念化为白人地主与黑人劳工之间的斗争,但列维恩拒绝将牙买加描述为白人的祖国或黑人的共和国。
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‘A Chronicle of the Rebellion in Jamaica’: Pseudobiblical Style and Jamaican Proto-nationalism

Jamaica’s 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, now widely recognized as a watershed in the history of the Atlantic world, fundamentally shaped discussions about Jamaica’s political and legal status within the British empire. Here, I analyze a little-known narrative of the rebellion written by Jewish newspaper editor Sidney Levien in pseudobiblical style, with almost every sentence of the account echoing the language of the King James Version of the Bible. I locate Levien’s narrative within a literary tradition that used pseudobiblical style to describe contemporary political life, especially in America. The literary tradition, identified by historian Eran Shalev, transposed contemporary politics into events of biblical proportion. By using pseudobiblical style, Levien advanced a sense of Jamaica’s importance in nineteenth-century political imagination. While many accounts conceptualized the rebellion as a struggle between White landowners and Black laborers, Levien refused to present Jamaica as a White fatherland or a Black republic.

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