美人鱼故事：爱丽丝·邓巴·纳尔逊与现代Undine

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Arizona Quarterly Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1353/arq.2021.0014

Francesca Sawaya

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摘要:在如何解读爱丽丝·邓巴-纳尔逊的小说《现代温丁》(A Modern Undine, 1901-03)的争论中，学者们在很大程度上忽略了这个故事与19世纪最流行的美人鱼故事《温丁》(1811)的密切联系。在那个时代，《昂丁》是一部非常受欢迎的作品，在整个世纪的各种媒体上被反复修改。本文认为，为了理解邓巴-纳尔逊这部未出版的小说，必须将其与福奎厄的美人鱼故事、欧美女性和酷儿作家对美人鱼故事的主要修改以及散居非洲的美人鱼故事联系起来阅读。邓巴-尼尔森的小说对福奎厄故事中固有的种族忧郁提供了一种奇怪的批评，同时借鉴了非洲侨民的故事来使美人鱼现代化。邓巴-尼尔森的小说为我们提供了很多思考，当我们思考美人鱼在我们这个时代的持续吸引力时。

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Mermaid Tales: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and A Modern Undine

Abstract:In debating how to interpret Alice Dunbar-Nelson's novel, A Modern Undine (ca. 1901-03), scholars have largely ignored the story's close connection to the most popular mermaid story of the nineteenth century, Undine (1811), by . An extraordinarily popular text in its time, Undine was revised repeatedly in a range of media across the century. This essay argues that in order to understand Dunbar-Nelson's unpublished novel, it must be read in relation to Fouqué's mermaid story, major revisions of it by EuroAmerican women and queer writers, as well as African diaspora mermaid stories. Dunbar-Nelson's novel provides a queer critique of the racial melancholy that inheres in Fouqué's story while borrowing from African diaspora stories to modernize the mermaid. Dunbar-Nelson's novel provides us with much to think about as we contemplate the ongoing appeal of the mermaid in our own times.

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期刊介绍： Arizona Quarterly publishes scholarly essays on American literature, culture, and theory. It is our mission to subject these categories to debate, argument, interpretation, and contestation via critical readings of primary texts. We accept essays that are grounded in textual, formal, cultural, and theoretical examination of texts and situated with respect to current academic conversations whilst extending the boundaries thereof.