Nongqawuse Resurrected: Legend and History in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
Nongqawuse Resurrected: Legend and History in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
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Nongqawuse 复活：扎克斯·姆达 (Zakes Mda) 的《红色之心》中的传说和历史
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10.4000/ces.9012
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2008
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Richard Samin
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Richard Samin
扎克斯·姆达的小说《红色的心》使用了阿马科萨女预言家农夸乌斯和1856-57年杀牛运动的传奇故事，因为它通过历史记录和文学文本，特别是H. I. E.德洛莫的戏剧《为了拯救而杀人的女孩：解放者农夸乌斯》（1936年），在过去和现在之间建立了令人惊讶和讽刺的对应关系。通过唤起阿马科萨人生活中的这一悲剧性事件及其在当今的重新觉醒，扎克斯·姆达似乎遵循了一个双重议程：他从解放的南非的角度重写了这一历史性事件，他考察了过去分裂问题的重新出现对当今的影响。本文重点探讨了如何通过历史的重写，南非的过去正在谈判，以及小说如何通过自己的写作模式传达了后种族隔离南非的模糊性和矛盾。
Zakes Mda's novel 'The Heart of Redness' uses the legendary story of the amaXhosa prophetess Nongqawuse and of the Cattle Killing Movement of 1856-57, as it was handed down to posterity through historical records and literary texts, particularly H. I. E. Dhlomo's play 'The Girl Who Killed to Save: Nongqawuse the Liberator' (1936), to establish surprising and ironic correspondences between the past and the present. By evoking this tragic episode in the lives of the amaXhosa people and its reawakening in the present, Zakes Mda seems to follow a twofold agenda: he rewrites this historic episode from the point of view of a liberated South Africa and he examines the effects which the resurgence of the divisive issues of the past has on the present. The article focuses on how, through the rewriting of history, the South African past is being negotiated and how the novel through its own mode of writing conveys the ambiguities and contradictions of post-apartheid South Africa.