逃亡的不可能:玛乔克《生活成本》中的城市空间解构

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Anna Bendrat
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摘要在《事故本体论》中,Catherine Malabou描述了一种“由事故产生的形式,由事故产生,一种事故”的现象,当由于传记中的“深深的切口”,个人的人生轨迹分裂,“一个新的、前所未有的人物与前一个人生活在一起”(1-2)。本文提出,Martyna Majok 2018年获得普利策奖的戏剧《生活成本》可以通过马拉布对意外造成的身体创伤和人类生命周期破裂的广泛研究来理解。在马乔克的作品中,通过波兰移民阿尼(Ani)和第一代毕业生杰斯(Jess)的角色,探索了新形式对旧形式的两种相互交织的强加,阿尼在一场悲惨的车祸后四肢瘫痪,杰斯在经济和情感上都很挣扎,在一个对移民充满敌意的城市里找到了自己的位置。该剧的城市背景被马乔克描述为“美国东部的城市”(5),既是流动性的边界和边界,也是一个概念框架。文章利用马拉布的破坏性可塑性概念,探讨了具有进出流动性的城市如何成为一个空间和政治框架,以阐明缺乏外部性的后果,而外部性通常是一种精神逃避和生存救济的空间。
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The Impossibility of Fleeing: The Deconstruction of Urban Space in Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living
Abstract In The Ontology of the Accident, Catherine Malabou describes the phenomenon of a “form born of the accident, born by accident, a kind of accident,” when due to a “deep cut” in a biography, the individual’s path of life trajectory splits and a “new, unprecedented persona comes to live with the former person” (1–2). This article proposes that Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer-awarded drama Cost of Living can be understood through Malabou’s extensive work on physical trauma and ruptures to the human life cycle as a result of accidents. In Majok’s work, two intertwining impositions of a new form on an old form are explored through the characters of Ani, a Polish immigrant who has become quadriplegic following a tragic car crash, and Jess, a first-generation graduate who struggles both financially and emotionally to find her place in a city hostile to immigrants. The city backdrop of the play, described by Majok as “the urban East of America” (5), acts as perimeter of and boundary to mobility, but also as a conceptual frame. The article uses Malabou’s concept of destructive plasticity to explore how the city with its inbound and outbound mobility becomes a spatial and political frame for articulating the consequences of the lack of exteriority which usually serves as a mental escape and space of existential relief.
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