“愚蠢的苏格兰东西”:杰基·凯的小号里的东西、废物和记忆物品

IF 0.1 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/abcsj-2021-0015

C. Borbély

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在新唯物主义的失落记忆方法的指导下，这篇阅读杰基·凯1998年的小说《小号》调查了这位苏格兰-尼日利亚作家虚构的哀悼中不同记忆对象所记录的情感排列。本文探索了凯作品中黑人苏格兰特质的几个物质形象，从主客体混合本体论的研究中得出了主要的理论框架，包括比尔·布朗对物性的批判，毛里齐亚·博斯卡利对物质的破坏性代理的概念，以及梅尔·陈对物质的生命力的看法，并讨论了小说如何抓住事物在锚定记忆和帮助人类度过丧亲之灾方面的作用。

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“Daft naff Scottish things”: Stuff, Waste and Memory Objects in Jackie Kay’s Trumpet

Abstract Guided by new materialist approaches to the memory of loss, this reading of Jackie Kay’s 1998 novel Trumpet surveys the affective permutations registered by different objects of remembrance in the Scottish-Nigerian writer’s fictional account of mourning. Exploring several material figurations of Black Scottishness in Kay’s writings, the essay derives its main theoretical framework from studies on blended subject-object ontologies, including Bill Brown’s critique of thingness, Maurizia Boscagli’s notion of the disruptive agency of stuff, and Mel Y Chen’s view of matter’s animacy, and discusses how the novel latches onto the role of things in anchoring memory and in helping humans work through bereavement.

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American, British and Canadian Studies Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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