希望之轴:最近在刚果城市工作中的幻想

IF 0.2 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-03-17 DOI:10.1093/fmls/cqad016

K. Bouwer

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摘要

本文探讨了反乌托邦城市空间的希望问题，正如刚果民主共和国最近的作品所表现的那样，通过发展刚果人民用来评论他们生活质量的“洞”概念。辛佐·阿扎在2015年出版的小说《gsamnbaloji d ' une banalit》中对“le trou”的字面理解与萨米·巴洛吉和菲利普·德·博克在2016年拍摄的电影《The Tower》中对“la tour”的垂直渴望进行了比较，该小说以卢本巴希的采矿社区为背景。这两件作品，代表了一个独特的地标和过度的采掘经济，提供了一个机会来反思幻想的冒险，尽管物质条件阻碍了美好生活的梦想，但并没有剥夺所有希望的空间。

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Axes of Hope: Flights of Fancy in Recent Work on Urban Congo

This article explores the question of hope in dystopian urban spaces as represented in recent work from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by developing the concept of ‘the hole’ used by Congolese people to comment upon the quality of their lives. The more literal reading of ‘le trou’ in Sinzo Aanza’s 2015 novel Généalogie d’une banalité, set in the mining community of Lubumbashi, is compared to the vertical aspiration of ‘la tour’ in The Tower, a 2016 film by Sammy Baloji and Filip De Boeck, set in Kinshasa. The two works, representing a unique landmark and the excesses of extractive economies, provide the opportunity to reflect on fanciful ventures that, despite the material conditions that thwart dreams of a better life, have not foreclosed all spaces of hope.

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期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1965, Forum for Modern Language Studies has published articles on all aspects of literary and linguistic studies, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The journal sets out to reflect the essential pluralism of modern language and literature studies and to provide a forum for worldwide scholarly discussion. Each annual volume normally includes two thematic issues.