珍妮-玛丽·杰克逊《非洲思想小说》对非洲哲学的启示

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Bruce Janz
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我喜欢书的结尾。它们通常是没有编号的章节,就好像它们是常规章节一样。我经常从它们开始,如果我在阅读推理小说,这可能不太管用,但在阅读学术作品时却非常有用。这些最后的部分通常表面上是作者从书中获得的感觉的提炼。不过,它们也可能是挑衅、临别陈词、纸上谈资、警告、残羹剩饭,有时甚至只是某种形式的“需要进一步研究”。有时,他们甚至会露出他们的手,给我们一个弗洛伊德式的口误,显示出作者对刚刚提出的论点的焦虑。事实上,有时正是在作者的口气下,裂缝显露或被承认的地方。但是,正如词曲作者伦纳德·科恩(Leonard Cohen)所说,“凡事都有裂缝。”光线就是这样进来的。”珍妮-玛丽·杰克逊的新书《非洲思想小说》中有什么漏洞?这当然不是她的核心论点。这本书的主线考察了当代非洲小说是如何借鉴和例证了非洲哲学所接受的问题。更重要的是,在理解哲学家如何做他们所做的事情的情况下,阅读这些小说可以让我们看到小说家如何设法避免小说可能容易出现的过度表现,尤其是那些站在非洲殖民时期政治和殖民暴行阴影下的小说。这与其说是后记中明显的裂缝,不如说是一种残余,杰克逊称之为两种非洲文学形式之间的“边缘”:“面向外部(即被西方视为具有代表性,但实际上并非如此)和。
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What African Philosophy Can Learn from Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas
I love the endings of books. They are often the sections that are not numbered as if they were regular chapters. I often start with them, which maybe doesn’t work that well if I’m reading a mystery but can be very useful when reading academic work. These final sections are often ostensibly distillations of what a writer feels like he or she has earned in the book. They can also, though, be provocations, parting shots, armchair reflections, caveats, remainders, loose ends, or even sometimes just some version of “further study is needed.” They can even, at times, tip their hand, giving us the Freudian slip that shows an author’s anxieties about the argument just made. Indeed, sometimes it is where the cracks show or are admitted under the author’s breath. But, as the songwriter Leonard Cohen said, “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” What is the crack in Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s new book, The African Novel of Ideas? Well, it is certainly not her core argument. The major thread of this book examines how contemporary African novels have drawn on and exemplified questions that African philosophy has taken up. More than that, reading the novels with an understanding of how philosophers do what they do enables us to see how the novelists manage to avoid overreaches of representation that fiction might be prone to, especially fiction that stands in the shadow of political and colonial brutalities of the colonial period in Africa. It is less a crack that the epilogue makes apparent and more a remainder, what Jackson calls a “fringe” at the edges between two forms of African literature: “outward-facing (that is, seen by the West as representative but in fact not) and
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