图书标签: 周蕾 海外中国研究 后殖民 语言 比较文学 Rey_Chow 香港 文学
发表于2024-12-23
Not Like a Native Speaker pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled in a similar manner, make their appearances in the various chapters: the young mulatto happening upon a photograph about skin color in a popular magazine; the man from Martinique hearing himself named "Negro" in public in France; call center agents in India trained to Americanize their accents while speaking with customers; the Algerian Jewish philosopher reflecting on his relation to the French language; African intellectuals debating the pros and cons of using English for purposes of creative writing; the translator acting by turns as a traitor and as a mourner in the course of cross-cultural exchange; Cantonese-speaking writers of Chinese contemplating the politics of food consumption; radio drama workers straddling the forms of traditional storytelling and mediatized sound broadcast.
In these riveting scenes of speaking and writing imbricated with race, pigmentation, and class demarcations, Chow suggests, postcolonial languaging becomes, de facto, an order of biopolitics. The native speaker, the fulcrum figure often accorded a transcendent status, is realigned here as the repository of illusory linguistic origins and unities. By inserting British and post-British Hong Kong (the city where she grew up) into the languaging controversies that tend to be pursued in Francophone (and occasionally Anglophone) deliberations, and by sketching the fraught situations faced by those coping with the specifics of using Chinese while negotiating with English, Chow not only redefines the geopolitical boundaries of postcolonial inquiry but also demonstrates how such inquiry must articulate historical experience to the habits, practices, affects, and imaginaries based in sounds and scripts.
Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University and the author of numerous influential books, including several published by Columbia University Press: Primitive Passions; The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; and Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films. A book about her writings, The Rey Chow Reader, was edited by Paul Bowman. Her work has appeared in more than ten languages.
theory, and theory, and then theory.
评分前三章在理论上很精致,和Derrida,Fanon,Ngugi,Achebe等思想家/作家关于语言的讨论形成对话,主要是揭露语言在殖民性、主体性中和权力的纠缠,但同时辩证地提倡一种不纯正的语言(Xenophone)才是更加迫近语言权力内核,打开乌托邦可能的路径。后面两章写香港的诗人、批评家,以及作为广播小说编导和演员的自己的母亲,理论锋锐不减却又温情脉脉,在食物、口语、地方记忆、声音等等层面考察了语言的当地性和针对“母语霸权”的“去疆域化”(deterritorialization)的反抗意义。想起王德威的周蕾的评价:“周蕾其实很温暖,但作为出身香港的学者,她有自己的策略。”
评分The post-colonial scene of languaging is more complicated than allowed here... final chapter is gold
评分personal & impersonal
评分其实周阿姨自己也有对pure English的obsession.最后一章好感人。
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Not Like a Native Speaker pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024