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| DOI | 10.1080/1013929X.2014.957531 |
| Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger | |
| Lilford, Grant | |
| 通讯作者 | Lilford, G |
| 来源期刊 | CURRENT WRITING-TEXT AND RECEPTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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| ISSN | 1013-929X |
| EISSN | 2159-9130 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 卷号 | 26期号:2页码:169-180 |
| 英文摘要 | Bessie Head's A Question of Power and Dambudzo Marechera's The House of Hunger present spiritual battles of a psychic rather than a psychological nature. Both novels rely on autobiographical protagonists who display an acute awareness of spiritual conflict. This manifests itself partially in their awareness of racism as a spiritual evil that responds to visible difference, but it moves beyond this awareness into a wider consciousness of states of being beyond empirical experience. This consciousness is not surprising from either an African traditional perspective, or from the perspective of any other form of mysticism, although empiricist readers have attempted to rationalise and categorise it. Even without training in ascetic practices, the protagonists of Marechera and Head experience visions which evoke those of the North African Desert Fathers, including St Antony. This paper raises the possibility that both Head and Marechera display awareness of existence, and conflict, in a spiritual dimension, and that this conflict takes on particular physical dimensions. The argument in Foucault's Madness and Civilization is applied to show how the diagnosis, or even suspicion, of insanity serves to isolate and alienate, and thus to obscure valid critiques of the nature of power in society, particularly in a post-colonial context. |
| 英文关键词 | mysticism psychoanalysis empiricism epistemology visions |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | ESCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000212135200009 |
| WOS关键词 | HEAD,BESSIE |
| WOS类目 | Literature |
| WOS研究方向 | Literature |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/330659 |
| 作者单位 | [Lilford, Grant] Univ West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad Tobago |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lilford, Grant. Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger[J],2014,26(2):169-180. |
| APA | Lilford, Grant.(2014).Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger.CURRENT WRITING-TEXT AND RECEPTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA,26(2),169-180. |
| MLA | Lilford, Grant."Madness or Mysticism? The Unconscious Ascetics of Power and Hunger".CURRENT WRITING-TEXT AND RECEPTION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA 26.2(2014):169-180. |
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