The Siren’s Children: Rethinking Postcolonial Naples
The Siren’s Children: Rethinking Postcolonial Naples
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海妖之子：反思后殖民那不勒斯
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2017
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Maria Ridda
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本文从犯罪的透镜来重新定位那不勒斯作为一个后殖民城市的地位。这两个文本分别是弗朗西斯科·帕尔米耶里的《那不勒斯的书》（2012）和安东尼奥·弗兰奇尼的《阿布西沃》（2001）。作为全球文化和经济交汇点的十字路口，那不勒斯坐落在“从南欧和北非延伸的空间”[卡瓦洛，埃森佐和伊恩钱伯斯。2014.那不勒斯之夜：从维苏威蓝调到行星共鸣。https://www.academia.edu/5599503/Neapolitan_nights_from_Vesuvian_blues_to_planetary_vibes].虽然定位城市的地理位置，这一声明也有一个意识形态的内涵，铸造那不勒斯作为欧洲的“其他”，在那里的“阿拉伯行使暴力”是任意与“地方性的无法无天的状态”典型的殖民和后殖民社会[迪基，约翰。1998.最黑暗的意大利：国家和梅佐焦尔诺的刻板印象，1860-1900。贝辛斯托克：帕尔格雷夫]。城市犯罪叙事作为一个放大的透镜，揭露了“黑社会”和传统权力结构之间的隐藏联系，这些联系既破坏又加强了意大利以西方为中心的现代性和国家-社会关系的修辞。正如Il libro napoletano dei napolei的主人公所说，那不勒斯犯罪组织Camorra的叙事化允许“从被遗忘的角落发现城市”[Palmieri，Francesco。2012.拿破仑的书。Milan：Mondadori.].通过将城市定位在地中海的地理和历史位置，作为文化交叉点和交叉点的土地[卡萨诺，佛朗哥。2012.南方思想和其他关于地中海的论文。纽约：福德姆大学出版社。摘要本文探讨了犯罪分子占据的“灰色地带”，提供了一个超越“压迫者”与“反抗者”之间谈判的政治空间的新视角。后殖民那不勒斯的案例构成了影响全球南方城市的不均衡空间动态的典型例子，它包含并扩展了空间权力二元关系（殖民者/殖民地，霸权/从属）。
This essay repositions Naples as a postcolonial city through the lens of criminality in two literary texts: Il libro napoletano dei morti (2012) by Francesco Palmieri and L’abusivo (2001) by Antonio Franchini. As a crossroads of global cultural and economic intersections, Naples sits “in a space that extends both from Southern Europe and from North Africa” [Cavallo, Vincenzo, and Iain Chambers. 2014. Neapolitan Nights: From Vesuvian Blues to Planetary Vibes. https://www.academia.edu/5599503/Neapolitan_nights_from_Vesuvian_blues_to_planetary_vibes]. While locating the city geographically, this statement also has an ideological connotation which casts Naples as Europe’s “Other”, the place where an “Arabic exercise of violence” is arbitrarily associated with the “endemic state of lawlessness” typical of colonial and postcolonial societies [Dickie, John. 1998. Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno, 1860–1900. Basingstoke: Palgrave]. Criminal narratives of the city act as a magnifying lens to expose the hidden connections between the “underworld” and conventional power structures that both disrupt and reinforce the rhetoric of western-centric modernity and state–society relations in Italy. As the protagonist of Il libro napoletano dei morti puts it, a narrativization of Naples’ criminal organization, the Camorra, allows for a “discovery of the city from its forgotten corners” [Palmieri, Francesco. 2012. Il libro napoletano dei morti. Milan: Mondadori.]. By locating the city within the geographical and historical situatedness of the Mediterranean as a land of cultural crossings and intersections [Cassano, Franco. 2012. Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean. New York: Fordham University Press .], this essay investigates the “grey areas” occupied by criminals; it offers a new perspective on the city that goes beyond the accommodational space negotiated between the “oppressor” and the “resister”. The case of postcolonial Naples constitutes a paradigmatic example of the uneven spatial dynamics affecting cities in the Global South, which encompasses and extends spatial dyads of power (colonizer/colonized, hegemony/subalternity).