白人模因的负担:21世纪白人至上主义网络文化的复制与适应

IF 0.1 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Laura Jeffries
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摘要

鲁迪亚德·吉卜林1899年的诗歌《白人的负担》经常被白人至上主义者在网上发表的关于当代种族关系的各种争论中引用。许多人追随参议员本·蒂尔曼(Ben Tillman)早期对该文本的挪用,将其作为种族分离主义和孤立主义的论据,而另一些人则主张一种新的帝国主义。本文探讨吉卜林的诗是如何呈现出迷因的特殊特质的,它允许一个松散的作者和观众群体通过共享文本的传播来表达他们的身份,即使他们偏离了原始意义的多个方向。新近研究的第一手资料来自一系列所谓的“另类右翼”发言人和不知名的互联网用户,以证明“白人的负担”这个概念是如何适应在距离其起源一个多世纪的文化环境中生存下来的,以及吉卜林本人是如何被21世纪的亚文化所接受的。
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The White Meme's Burden: Replication and Adaptation in Twenty-First Century White Supremacist Internet Cultures
abstract:Rudyard Kipling's 1899 poem "The White Man's Burden" is frequently invoked in the online postings of white supremacists making various arguments about contemporary race relations. Many follow Senator Ben Tillman's early appropriation of the text as an argument for racial separatism and isolationism, while others advocate a new imperialism. This article examines how Kipling's poem takes on the special qualities of a meme, allowing a loosely affiliated community of authors and audiences to signal their identities through transmission of a shared text even as they stray in multiple directions from its original meaning. Newly examined primary sources draw from a range of so-called "alt-right" spokesmen and obscure Internet users to demonstrate how the concept of the "white man's burden" has adapted to survive in a cultural environment more than a century removed from its origin, and how Kipling himself has been adopted by a twenty-first century subculture.
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Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History
Reception-Texts Readers Audiences History HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published once a year. It seeks to promote dialog and discussion among scholars engaged in theoretical and practical analyses in several related fields: reader-response criticism and pedagogy, reception study, history of reading and the book, audience and communication studies, institutional studies and histories, as well as interpretive strategies related to feminism, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and postcolonial studies, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the literature, culture, and media of England and the United States.
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