曼德拉《自由之路》和奥巴桑乔《我的守望》中的民族性与自我形象叙事

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Journal of Global South Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/gss.2022.0028

Adedoyin Aguoru, Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

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摘要：本文以传记写作作为一种文化实践和表达的观点为基础，运用身份理论和叙事理论，探讨政治自传中民族性格与身份建构之间的内在联系。它采用了纳尔逊·曼德拉的《自由之路》（1994年）和奥卢塞贡·奥巴桑乔的《我的手表》（2014年）作为主要文本。它将对南非黑人的偏见视为LWF的民族特征，将尼日利亚的后殖民政治幻灭视为“我的守望”。它进一步展示了曼德拉和奥巴桑乔的个性是如何植根于基于角色的身份，以及激活这种身份类型的各自显著性。此外，还探讨了两个文本的叙述方式。民族性是影响政治自传身份建构的一个社会文化心理指标。

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National Character and the Narrative of Self-Image in Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom and Obasanjo's My Watch

Abstract:Building on the view of biographical writing as a cultural practice and expression, this article adopts identity and narrative theories to discuss the interconnection between national character and identity construction in political autobiographies. It employed Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom [LWF] (1994) and Olusegun Obasanjo's My Watch (2014) as primary texts. It identifies prejudice against black South Africans as the national character in LWF and postcolonial political disillusionment in Nigeria as that of My Watch. It further demonstrates how the personalities of Mandela and Obasanjo are rooted in role-based identity and the respective saliences that activate this identity type. Additionally, it discusses the modes of narration in the two texts. The article concludes that national character is a sociocultural and psychological indicator that influences identity construction in political autobiographies.

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Global South Studies focuses on the countries and peoples of the "global south," including those in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and parts of Oceania. The global south is not, however, synonymous with geographic locations in the southern hemisphere. That is, some of these countries and peoples are situated in the northern hemisphere. The journal solicits high-quality, academic papers on a broad range of issues and topics affecting these countries and peoples. Such papers may address questions involving politics, history, economics, culture, social organization, legal systems, agriculture, the environment, global institutions and systems, justice, and more. The journal aims to promote a wider and better understanding of our world and its peoples. The Journal of Global South Studies is the official journal of the Association of Global South Studies.