玛格丽特·奥古拉的《我以阿波罗起誓》中的希波克拉底誓言、疾病和政治隐喻

Africa Today Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.2979/africatoday.69.3.06

C. Rono

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摘要：本文将Margaret Atieno Ogola的《阿波罗的我发誓》（2002）与肯尼亚的后殖民背景联系起来，以表明文学文本对理解肯尼亚的社会政治和经济取向的贡献。特别有启发性的是，将疾病文献定位于医学人文学科和叙事医学的研究所带来的理论灵感和认识论见解，证明了奥戈拉在多大程度上将疾病和希波克拉底誓言视为社会政治动荡的象征。通过关注题外话如何起到砖块的作用，不仅是为了让政治医学对话有助于重新文本化文学中的医学，也是为了将医学符号转化为诗意元素，文章描绘了一条在政治启示录场景中可以采取的修复轨迹。

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The Hippocratic Oath, Illness, and Metaphors of Politics in Margaret Ogola's I Swear by Apollo

Abstract:This essay relates Margaret Atieno Ogola's I Swear by Apollo (2002) to Kenya's postcolonial context to signal the contribution of literary texts to the understanding of Kenya's sociopolitical and economic orientations. Particularly instructive are theoretical inspirations and epistemological insights from studies that locate literature on illness in medical humanities and narrative medicine, demonstrating the extent to which Ogola deploys illness and the Hippocratic Oath as emblems of sociopolitical convulsion. By focusing on how digressions act as bricks, not only for political-medical dialogue to help recontextualize medicine in literature, but also in converting medical signs into poetical elements, the article diagrams a reparative trajectory that can be taken in a politically apocalyptic scenario.

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Africa Today Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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