H.莱德·哈格德的《贝尼塔:一部非洲罗曼史》:穿越殖民边疆:女性流动与英国民族认同的形成

Q4 Social Sciences

Gender Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.2478/genst-2023-0006

E. Mutlu

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H.莱德·哈格德最著名的浪漫小说《所罗门王的矿山》(1885)中“我可以肯定地说，在整个历史上没有一条衬裙”，因此他的作品在维多利亚时代晚期的浪漫小说中被视为代表帝国男子气概的重要例子。在这种典型的帝国主义叙事中，非洲为英国男孩成长为男人提供了一个环境(Brantlinger, 1988)。然而，本文认为，这种男性流动的概念被哈格德的《贝尼塔:非洲浪漫》(1906)中女性旅行者的形象所取代。贝尼塔从南安普顿到德班的海上旅行也给哈格德丢失已久的旅行文本带来了性别角色的问题。因此，本文将在维多利亚时代政治、哲学和种族信仰的大背景下探讨哈格德的作品，并研究女性旅行者在国家认同建构中的作用。

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Travelling Across the Colonial Frontier: Female Mobility and the Making of English National Identity in H. Rider Haggard’s Benita: An African Romance

Abstract Given his most famous account, “I can safely say that there is not a petticoat in the whole history” of his most well-known romance, King Solomon’s Mines (1885), H. Rider Haggard’s works have been mostly celebrated as significant examples of the representation of imperial masculinities in the late Victorian romance fiction. In this typical imperialist narrative, Africa provides a setting for British boys to become men (Brantlinger, 1988). This paper, however, suggests that this notion of male mobility is replaced by the portrayal of a female traveller in Haggard’s Benita: An African Romance (1906). Benita’s sea journey from Southampton to Durban also brings gender roles into question in Haggard’s long lost travel text. This article, thus, will explore Haggard’s work in the broad Victorian context of political, philosophical and racial beliefs, and investigate the role of female travellers in the construction of national identity.

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Gender Studies Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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0.30

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157

审稿时长

14 weeks

期刊介绍： Gender Studies is a journal addressing academics and a general readership at the same time and its main goal is to provide a gendered approach to literature, language and society and also to highlight attempts of educationalists and Gender Studies esperts in various parts of the world to institutionalize Gender Studies in the academe. The GS journal publishes high-quality peer-reviewed articles from various Humanities and Social Sciences areas. The GS journal is interdisciplinary—gender proving an excellent analytical category enabling a new perspective on literature, anthropology, social and political studies, cultural studies, linguistics and mass media studies. The GS journal provides state-of-the-art research in all such fields.