种族、性别和“真正的大脑”:质问内拉·拉森去世的不可靠性

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2022.0010

V. Román

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摘要:本文将妮拉·拉森的《逝去》置于20世纪早期关于性别现代性的思想和优生学话语的科学种族主义的背景下，分析其叙事可靠性。Larsen对聚焦的使用——叙述声音和聚焦意识的正式分离——说明了对种族和性别主体的偏见是如何在可靠性的归属中自然化的。通过这些正式的策略，《路过》要求读者质疑小说中黑人女性所处的压迫体系，让那些破坏她们独立和智慧的框架结构(包括叙事和社会政治)变得清晰可见。

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Race, Gender, and "Real Brains": Interrogating Unreliability in Nella Larsen's Passing

Abstract:This essay analyzes narrative reliability in Nella Larsen's Passing by putting it in the context of early-twentieth-century ideas about gendered modernity and the scientific racism of eugenics discourse. Larsen's use of focalization—the formal separation of narrating voice and focalizing consciousness—illuminates how bias against raced and gendered subjects are naturalized in ascriptions of reliability. Through such formal strategies, Passing asks readers to interrogate the systems of oppression the novel's Black women navigate, making visible the frame structures (both narrative and sociopolitical) that function to undermine their articulations of independence and intelligence.

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.