参考点:引用Kamau Brathwaite非殖民化引文

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Jacob Edmond
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摘要:引文以两种截然不同但相互交织的方式塑造了文学和文化理论与实践:它推动了文本和概念的传播;它为理解文学和文化的连续性和变化提供了一个理论框架。引文是一种权力行为,通常是偏见,它产生了学院的赢家和输家、明星和“失败者”,不仅在文学和文化研究中,而且在从天体物理学到神经科学的所有学术学科中都是如此。在文学和文化研究中,过去五十年中,许多被引用率最高的理论家——主要是英美和欧洲的理论家——反过来强调了重复、重复和引用在语言、文学和我们的社会生活中的作用,而这往往是最重要的。这篇文章展示了不同的引文线如何提供对文学和文化引文本质的不同理解。我认为,像德里达这样的理论家的习惯性引用掩盖了引用理论的其他谱系。我以Kamau Brathwaite为例,他在20世纪60年代对加勒比文化史进行了引用性的描述,其灵感来源于加纳音乐学家J.H.Kwabena Nketia的作品《阿坎鼓声》和录音机等新技术。这种可供选择的引文链表明,有必要重新思考文学理论史和我们的世界文学理论。一方面它们强调了在西方传统中工作的文学理论家的特权(以及将其他传统的文本视为检验西方理论的材料,而不是理论思想的来源)掩盖了跨文化交流的实际历史复杂性,并使我们的文学和文化理论变得贫瘠。另一方面,Brathwaite等引文理论本身为理解文学理论和实践的循环提供了一种替代的理论模式。他们强调对现有文本和思想的重复和改编,而不是对著名的起源点,这让我们能够以其他方式思考世界文学、理论和引文。
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Points of Reference: Citing Kamau Brathwaite Decolonizing Citation
Abstract:Citation shapes literary and cultural theory and practice in two distinct but intertwined ways: it drives the dissemination of texts and concepts; and it offers a theoretical framework for understanding literary and cultural continuity and change. Citation is an act of power and often prejudice that produces the winners and losers, the stars and the "also-rans" of the academy, not just in literary and cultural studies but across all scholarly disciplines from astrophysics to neuroscience. In literary and cultural studies, many of the most highly cited—largely Anglo-American and European—theorists of the past fifty years have in turn emphasized, often above all else, the role of repetition, reiteration, and citation in language, literature, and our social lives.This essay shows how alternative lines of citation might offer alternative understandings of the citational nature of literature and culture. The habitual citation of theorists like Derrida, I argue, obscures other genealogies for citation theory. I take as my example Kamau Brathwaite, who in the 1960s developed a citational account of Caribbean cultural history that drew inspiration from Akan drumming, the work of Ghanaian musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia, and new technologies, such as the tape recorder. Such alternative citation chains suggest the need to rethink both the history of literary theory and our theories of world literature. On the one hand, they highlight how the privileging of literary theorists working within the Western tradition (and the corresponding treatment of texts from other traditions as mere material on which to test Western theories, rather than as themselves sources of theoretical ideas) belies the actual historical complexity of cross-cultural exchange and impoverishes our theories of literature and culture. On the other hand, citation theories such as Brathwaite's themselves offer an alternative theoretical model for understanding the circulations of literary theory and practice. Their stress on the repetition and adaptation of existing texts and ideas—rather than on celebrated points of origin—allows us to think world literature, theory, and citation otherwise.
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DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM-
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期刊介绍: For over thirty years, diacritics has been an exceptional and influential forum for scholars writing on the problems of literary criticism. Each issue features articles in which contributors compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop their own positions on the theses, methods, and theoretical implications of those works.
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