CREOLE NATIONALISTS AND THE SEARCH FOR NATIVIST AUTHENTICITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ZANZIBAR: THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITANISM*
CREOLE NATIONALISTS AND THE SEARCH FOR NATIVIST AUTHENTICITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY ZANZIBAR: THE LIMITS OF COSMOPOLITANISM*
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克里奥尔民族主义者和二十世纪桑给巴尔本土主义真实性的探索：世界主义的局限性*
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10.1017/s0021853714000024
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2014
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Jonathon P Glassman
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作者：
Jonathon P Glassman
桑给巴尔民族党的创始人可以被理解为克里奥尔民族主义者，他们认为自己的政治权威来自于跨国阿拉伯精英的成员资格。但在世纪中期，在领土民族主义霸权的崛起和泛非主义所带来的下层挑战的推动下，他们精心制作了一种新的历史叙事，将他们的运动描绘成起源于土著村民。然后，党的领导人把这个故事告诉了西方学者，他们的出版物帮助再现了整个世纪的神话。本文追溯了这种伪装的起源，并询问它意味着什么克里奥尔语隐喻的性质及其与世界性混杂话语的联系。传统的créolité和nativist本质主义之间的对比是虚幻的。
Abstract The founders of the Zanzibar National Party can be understood as creole nationalists, who imagined their political authority as stemming from membership in a transnational Arab elite. But in the mid-twentieth century, prompted by the rising hegemony of territorial nationalism and by subaltern challenges informed by pan-Africanism, they crafted a new historical narrative that depicted their movement as having originated with indigenous villagers. Party leaders then related this narrative to Western scholars, whose publications helped reproduce the myth throughout the rest of the century. This article traces the genesis of this masquerade and asks what it implies about the nature of the creole metaphor and its supposed link to discourses of cosmopolitan hybridity. The conventional contrast between créolité and nativist essentialism is shown to be illusory.