《连祷文与神话的摩擦变形》

IF 0.2 Q4 WOMENS STUDIES
N. Kang
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Ciguapas是一种神秘的生物,通常被描绘成裸体、美丽的女性,独特的脚向后。这样的解剖结构使得他们的路径几乎无法追踪。传说它们栖息在多米尼加共和国偏远的山区和森林里,捕食人类。这篇文章脱离了掠夺性的原型,通过“前进的落后”的主题,以ciguapa的脚为代表,形成了一种关于女性损失和哀悼的理论。作者选读了多米尼加裔美国诗人雷娜·p·埃斯皮拉特(生于1932年)的作品,概述了ciguapismo的女权主义范式,这是一种从根本上矛盾的模式,用于理解女性如何在个人悲伤、衰老意识和性暴力阴影下忍受痛苦。它也是一种以集体关怀为中心的环境清算形式。无论是以加勒比海为背景,还是以美国多米尼加侨民为背景,埃斯皮拉特诗歌中的ciguapismo都提供了一种重要的资源,一种富有想象力的能力,以及一种有限的本体论,在人类和环境不断流失的背景下,描绘出变革中的女权主义亲密关系。
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”
Ciguapas are mythical creatures, typically represented as naked, comely females with uniquely backward feet. Such anatomy renders their path virtually untraceable. Legends suggest they inhabit remote mountains and forests in the Dominican Republic, preying on men. This essay steps away from the predatory archetype, formulating a theory of women’s loss and mourning through the motif of “forward backwardness” epitomized by the ciguapa’s feet. Using selections from the work of Dominican American poet Rhina P. Espaillat (b. 1932), the author outlines the feminist paradigm of ciguapismo, a fundamentally paradoxical mode for understanding how women endure in times of personal grief, awareness of aging, and under the shadow of sexual violence. It is also a form of environmental reckoning centered on collective care. Whether set in the Caribbean or the U.S. Dominican diaspora, ciguapismo in Espaillat’s poetry offers a critical resource, an imaginative faculty, and a liminal ontology for mapping transformative feminist intimacies against a backdrop of ever-encroaching human and environmental losses.
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