To come to Burma, one of the few places where despotism still dominates, is to take both a physical and an emotional journey and, like most Burmese, to become caught up in the daily management of fear. Based on Monique Skidmore's experiences living in the capital city of Rangoon, Karaoke Fascism is the first ethnography of fear in Burma and provides a sobering look at the psychological strategies employed by the Burmese people in order to survive under a military dictatorship that seeks to invade and dominate every aspect of life. Skidmore looks at the psychology and politics of fear under the SLORC and SPDC regimes. Encompassing the period of antijunta student street protests, her work describes a project of authoritarian modernity, where Burmese people are conscripted as army porters and must attend mass rallies, chant slogans, construct roads, and engage in other forms of forced labor. In a harrowing portrayal of life deep within an authoritarian state, recovering heroin addicts, psychiatric patients, girl prostitutes, and poor and vulnerable women in forcibly relocated townships speak about fear, hope, and their ongoing resistance to four decades of oppression. "Karaoke fascism" is a term the author uses to describe the layers of conformity that Burmese people present to each other and, more important, to the military regime. This complex veneer rests on resistance, collaboration, and complicity, and describes not only the Burmese form of oppression but also the Burmese response to a life of domination. Providing an inside look at the madness and the militarization of the city, Skidmore argues that the weight of fear, the anxiety of constant vulnerability, and the numbing demands of the State upon individuals force Burmese people to cast themselves as automata; they deliberately present lifeless hollow bodies for the State's use, while their minds reach out into the cosmos for an array of alternate realities. Skidmore raises ethical and methodological questions about conducting research on fear when doing so evokes the very emotion in question, in both researcher and informant.
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评分我必须承认,这本书的阅读门槛相当高,它要求读者投入极大的注意力和背景知识储备。它不是那种可以轻松消遣的“快消品”,更像是一块需要耐心打磨的璞玉。书中引用了大量的哲学思辨和社会学理论,这些内容的穿插处理得天衣无缝,没有丝毫的生硬感,反而为故事增添了厚重的历史感和思辨色彩。我感觉自己像是在进行一场知识的马拉松,需要不断地查阅、回溯,才能真正领悟到作者构建的那个复杂世界观的完整面貌。对于那些追求智力挑战和思想深度的读者来说,这无疑是一份丰盛的盛宴,它强迫你跳出舒适区,去直面那些复杂、甚至令人不安的议题。
评分我是在一个连续的雨天,窝在沙发里,泡着热茶,才真正开始投入到这本书的阅读体验中。这本书的叙事节奏把握得极其精准,它不是那种让你喘不过气来的快节奏,而是像一条深沉的河流,缓缓地流动,但在水面之下,却暗流涌动着巨大的力量。我发现自己常常会读完一小节,然后合上书本,盯着窗外发呆好几分钟,消化那些潜藏在字里行间的微妙情绪。作者对人物心理的刻画简直达到了令人发指的细致程度,每一个角色的动机、挣扎和矛盾,都被剥开来,赤裸裸地呈现在读者面前,让人无法逃避地去审视自己内心深处的幽暗角落。这种深度的自我反思,让阅读过程变得既痛苦又过瘾,仿佛进行了一场深入灵魂的探险。
评分这本书带给我的情感冲击是持久而深刻的,它在我心中留下了一道难以磨灭的印记。它没有给出任何简单的答案或安慰,反而将生活中的荒谬、人性的脆弱与坚韧,以一种近乎残酷的真实展现出来。我发现自己在阅读过程中,时而会感到一种强烈的共鸣,仿佛作者偷窥到了我最隐秘的思绪;时而又会感到一种疏离,被带入到一个完全陌生的、光怪陆离的境地。这种情绪的过山车体验,恰恰证明了这本书强大的艺术感染力。它成功地在“局内人”的视角和“旁观者”的审视之间找到了一个完美的平衡点,让人在阅读结束后依然久久不能平息,思考着故事的余波及其对现实世界的折射。
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