نوع مقاله : علمی - پژوهشی
نویسنده
دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز
چکیده
پژوهش حاضر به بررسی مفهوم فردیت در رمان لندنیهای غریب اثر سم سلوون میپردازد. برای این منظور، شخصیتهای کلیدی این رمان که اغلب سیاه پوستان مهاجر هستند، از منظر خویشتن، ذهن، و جسم بررسی خواهند شد. بحث اصلی این مقاله بر ریشه یابی رفتار سردرگم و اغلب ناکارآمد شخصیتهای سیاه پوست داستان استوار است. با در نظر گرفتن این نکته، ریشه های بروز تحقیر نفس و خویشتن دوتکه در سیاه پوستان این رمان با ترکیب مفهوم درونیشدن تحقیر فرانتس فانون و ماخولیای فروید به بحث گذاشته میشود. برای نیل به این هدف، این تحقیق بر ذهن ناهشیار مردان سیاه پوست تمرکز میکند تا علل تجربه ناموفقشان از زندگی در کلانشهر سفید لندن را آشکار سازد. با توجه به نتایج به دست آمده از این پژوهش میتوان گفت شخصیتپردازیهای سلوون کمک چندانی به اهداف استعمارستیزانه او نمیکند و تا حد زیادی در تضاد با ویژگیهای بارز ضداستعماری رمان او قرار میگیرد.
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
Colored Subjectivities: Self, Mind, and Body in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners
نویسنده [English]
- Farzad Kolahjooei
Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
چکیده [English]
This paper depicts the lived experience of the black characters in Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners with regard to the concepts of self, mind, and body. Reading Selvon in the light of Fanonian concept of epidermalization and Freudian notion of melancholia, the current research argues that the black immigrants suffer from a traumatic state of mind, which results in self-contempt, psychic disintegration, and physical disorientation. This article especially focuses on the black characters’ fascination with the white world and its cultural values to argue that the otherness assigned to the black people by the whites throughout history is strongly felt in the novel in a way that none of the black characters is able to truly manifest his/her black spirit. In its conversation with the current body of research on the topic, this paper foregrounds the black characters’ sense of lost in the metropolitan life of London to eventually argue that Selvon’s characterization moves in opposition to his empowering narrative techniques and linguistic strategies.
کلیدواژهها [English]
- Subjectivity
- Self
- Epidermalization
- Melancholia
- Sam Selvon
- Lonely Londoners
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