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重绘斯瓦希里的空间:古尔纳《天堂》中的嗅景书写

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  • 安徽大学 外语学院,安徽 合肥 230601
严萌萌(2000—),女,江苏淮安人,安徽大学外语学院硕士研究生,主要从事英美文学研究。

收稿日期: 2023-12-18

  网络出版日期: 2024-06-09

Re-mapping Swahili's Space: Smellscape Writing in Gurnah's Paradise

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  • School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University, Hefei Anhui 230601

Received date: 2023-12-18

  Online published: 2024-06-09

摘要

古尔纳在《天堂》中借由嗅觉景观重绘了斯瓦希里的地理和政治空间。地域性的嗅觉景观随着小说中“气味捕手”优素福的不断移动,逐渐演变成标记性的气味坐标,最终绘制成了一幅斯瓦希里嗅觉地图。嗅觉是一种连接场所、社会和情感的空间要情感媒介,具有串联人、事、物的功能。通过对嗅觉景观的书写,古尔纳呈现了斯瓦希里弥漫气味中的空间地理风貌,投射了隐匿于气味编码之下的微观政治场域,并让嗅觉主体以一种沉默的方式反抗了气味中暗含的不平等权力关系。古尔纳的这种嗅景书写不仅赋予叙事以空间质感,还揭示了文学如何通过嗅觉媒介探索并挑战社会政治权力的复杂维度。

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严萌萌, 许庆红 . 重绘斯瓦希里的空间:古尔纳《天堂》中的嗅景书写[J]. 巢湖学院学报, 2024 , 26(1) : 94 -100 . DOI: 10.12152/j.issn.1672-2868.2024.01.013

Abstract

Abdulrazak Gurnah remaps Swahili's geographic and political space through smellscapes in Paradise. Regional smellscapes, with the constant movement of Yusuf, the "smell catcher" in the novel, gradually evolve into marked smell coordinates, which ultimately form an olfactory map of Swahili. Olfaction is a spatial-emotional medium that connects places, societies, and emotions, functioning to string people together with events and things. Through smellscape writing, Gurnah presents the spatial geography of Swahili with the depiction of diverse smells, projects the micro politics hidden beneath the code of smells, and the unequal power relations as implied in the smell is resisted by the olfactory subject in a silent way. Gurnah's smellscape writing not only endows the narrative with spatial texture, but also reveals how literature explores and challenges the complex dimensions of socio-political power through the olfactory medium.
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