尼日利亚电子诈骗小说中的骗子男子气概

IF 0.3 3区文学 0 LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN

Research in African Literatures Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.2979/reseafrilite.53.2.02

Daniel Chukwuemeka

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摘要:本文将电子诈骗骗子的形象定位为非洲男性话语的当代迭代。Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani的《我不是偶然来找你的》和Chuma Nwokolo的《一个死去的非洲人的日记》代表了男性参与电子欺诈的行为，这是一场新自由主义的赌博，目的是将他们的男子气概货币化。由于人的金钱代理受到新自由主义资本主义的变幻莫测的威胁和限制，它同样受到新自由主义资本主义意识形态的另一种范式的调解，即(对犯罪的重新定义)企业家精神。因此，要成为一个男人，就必须不断地表现出终极和共谋的男子气概，这是一种矛盾的发展，在这种发展中，男人冒险通过模仿新自由主义资本主义的权宜之计来规避经济排斥。小说通过性别话语和叙事策略记录了这种由金钱支配的男子气概，这些叙事策略抵制了非洲男子气概的固定结构，支持其偶然性和多元性的始终警惕的逻辑。

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Hustler Masculinity in the Nigerian E-fraud Novel

ABSTRACT:This article identifies the figure of the e-fraud hustler as a contemporary iteration of an African discourse of masculinity. Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani's I Do Not Come to You by Chance and Chuma Nwokolo's Diaries of a Dead African represent men's engagement in the e-fraud hustle as a neoliberal gamble to monetize their masculinity. As men's pecuniary agency is threatened and limited by the vagaries of neoliberal capitalism, it is equally mediated by yet another paradigm of neoliberal capitalist ideology, namely, (the criminal redefinition of) entrepreneurship. To be a man thus necessitates an ever-shifting performance of terminal and complicit masculinity, a paradoxical development in which men take risks to circumvent economic exclusion by imitating the expediencies of neoliberal capitalism. The novels register this money-governed sense of masculinity through gender discourses and narrative strategies that resist fixed constructions of African masculinity in favor of an ever-vigilant logic of its contingency and plurality.

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Research in African Literatures LITERATURE, AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, CANADIAN-

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1970, Research in African Literatures is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of Africa, as well as information on African publishing, announcements of importance to Africanists, and notes and queries of literary interest. Reviews of current scholarly books are included in every issue, often presented as review essays, and a forum offers readers the opportunity to respond to issues raised in articles and book reviews.