Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space
Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space
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祖国的不安全感：对语言和空间的反思
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2003
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A. Kaplan
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自9月11日以来，新单词已经进入我们的日常词汇，就好像它们一直存在一样。归零地（Ground Zero）和家园（Homeland）构成了特别突出和令人回味的空间隐喻，在公共话语中，它们根本不出现隐喻，而是作为对实际地点的字面描述。我感兴趣的是，这些词如何构成、解释和产生意义--并排除其他意义--既为后来被称为9/11的事件，也为改变美国国家形象及其与外部世界的关系。与归零地和家园的高度紧张--甚至可能是神圣的空间相比，在地球仪上还有其他具有新的政治用途和意义的关键地点，但似乎缺乏公共话语和语言。其中一个地点是古巴的关塔那摩湾。我看看这三个空间是如何表现的，以及它们之间的关系可能是什么。我的反思探索语言和空间之间的关系，如何映射，模糊，并重建概念，情感和象征性的领域之间的边界曾经被认为是明显分离的国家或国际，国内或国外，“在国内”或“国外”。
Since September 11, new words have entered our everyday lexicon as though they have always been there. Ground Zero and homeland constitute especially salient and evocative spatial metaphors, which in public discourse do not appear metaphoric at all, but as literal descriptions of actual places. I am interested in how these words frame, interpret, and produce meanings—and preclude other meanings—both for the events that have come to be known as 9/11 and for changing images of U.S. nationhood and its relation to the world outside it. In contrast to the highly charged—perhaps even sacred—spaces of Ground Zero and the homeland, there exist other key locations around the globe that have new political uses and meanings, but for which there seems to be a dearth of public discourse and language. One of these locations is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I look at how these three spaces are represented and what the relations among them might be. My reflections explore the relationship between language and space, how words map, blur, and reconstruct the conceptual, affective, and symbolic borders between spheres once thought of as distinctly separate—as either national or international, domestic or foreign, “at home” or “abroad.”