书评:Oana Celia Gheorghiu,《9/11的英美再现:文学、政治与媒体》

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Cătălina Neculai
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在20年纪念活动即将到来之际,阅读关于9/11的表述,是一种重新审视,促使我重新激活了对这一“反思”时刻的个人、城市、政治和文化记忆。我也以一种阅读意识接触了OanaCelia Gheorghiu的书,这种意识是由我对纽约市及其当代城市化的兴趣所介导的,适应了其中交叉的各种话语:历史和政治地理、多媒体文献和城市空间理论。唤起一种结合政治、批判性、创造性、中介性和体验性话语的代表性包袱,是参与Gheorghiu的书的关键,这使得这种话语互文性成为其基本原理。这本书表明,对9/11历史、政治和文化的理解是由事件所处的各种话语领域的多孔性和交叉性提供的,并且是可能的。这本书被认为是一个新历史主义者/文化唯物主义者的项目,具有格林布拉特、福柯、葛兰西、阿尔都塞、杰内特和赛义德等不同的理论见解,并以仔细阅读选定的多模式文本为基础,如9/11委员会报告、媒体报道、美国和英国总统和首相演讲,美国和英国作家的新闻和虚构作品,“当代文学中著名的[白人]男人”(第49页):唐·德利洛、马丁·艾米斯、伊恩·班克斯、伊安·麦克尤恩、大卫·黑尔,艾米·沃尔德曼和莫辛·哈米德除外。这本书的目的是文学性的:定义、典型化、探索和阐明跨大西洋新现实主义9/11小说的叙事和意识形态话语,将其作为一个亚类(第237页)。在其论证中,9/11亚类立即超越并融合了创伤和历史元虚构、后现代主义叙事的类型学,提出了关于历史真相的问题,现实和表征,以及地理文化空间(东方/西方、西方主义/东方主义)和身份的界定(穆斯林和1048563 DAS100.1177/09579265211048563话语与社会书评2021
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Book review: Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, British and American Representations of 9/11: Literature, Politics and the Media
Reading about representations of 9/11 on the threshold of the 20-year commemoration of the events is a revisitation of sorts that has prompted me to reactivate my personal, urban, political and cultural memory of this ‘rethinking’ moment. I have also approached OanaCelia Gheorghiu’s book with a readerly consciousness mediated by my interest in New York City and its contemporary urbanization, attuned to the various discourses that intersect therein: historical and political geographies, multi-media documentation and theories of urban space. Conjuring up a representational baggage that combines political, critical, creative, mediatic and experiential discourses is key to engaging with Gheorghiu’s book, which makes of this discursive intertextuality its very rationale. The book shows that understanding the 9/11 historical, political and cultural conjuncture is afforded, and made possible, by the porous and intersectional nature of the various discursive fields in which the events exist. The book is framed as a New Historicist/Cultural Materialist project with diverse theoretical insights from Greenblatt, Foucault, Gramsci, Althusser, Genette and Said amongst others, and grounded in the close readings of selected multimodal texts, such as the 9/11 Commission Report, media reports, US and UK presidential and prime ministerial addresses, journalistic and fictional work by American and British writers, ‘the famous [white] men in contemporary literature’ (p. 49): Don DeLillo, Martin Amis, Iain Banks, Ian McEwan, David Hare, with Amy Waldman and Mohsin Hamid as the exceptions. The book’s aim is literary: to define, typify, explore and elucidate the narratological and ideological discourses of transatlantic, neorealist 9/11 fiction as a subgenre in its own right (p. 237). In its demonstration, the 9/11 subgenre at once transcends and incorporates the typology of both trauma and historiographical metafictional, postmodernist narratives, raising questions about historical truth, reality and representation as well as scoping geocultural spaces (East/West, Occidentalism/Orientalism) and identities (the Muslim and the 1048563 DAS0010.1177/09579265211048563Discourse & SocietyBook review book-review2021
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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