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Lucy’s Precarious Privilege in Fiona Snyckers’s Lacuna
Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2020-07-02 , DOI: 10.1080/1013929x.2020.1795344
Richard Alan Northover

The article applies both Judith Butler’s notion of precarity and her Freudian approach to an analysis of Fiona Snyckers’s novel Lacuna (2019a). Using Freudian psychoanalysis to analyse the structure of Lucy’s trauma and to trace the process of her healing, I argue that, although the process is uneven and its outcome partial, it traces a movement from the darkness of her trauma to the illumination, following her name, of its cause as part of the process of healing. Although she claims her novel gives voice to Lucy, the silenced rape survivor of J M Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999), Snyckers has been accused of silencing the voices of the black victims of sexual violence and exploitation – those most exposed to precarity. However, I argue that one of Snyckers’s central concerns is to critique the privileges enjoyed by the white middle class.

中文翻译:

露西在 Fiona Snyckers 的 Lacuna 中的危险特权

本文将朱迪思·巴特勒的不稳定概念和她的弗洛伊德方法应用于对 Fiona Snyckers 的小说 Lacuna (2019a) 的分析。使用弗洛伊德的精神分析来分析露西的创伤结构并追踪她的康复过程,我认为,虽然这个过程是不平衡的,其结果是局部的,但它追踪了一个从她创伤的黑暗到光明的运动,遵循她的名字,其原因作为愈合过程的一部分。虽然她声称她的小说让露西发声,露西是 JM 库切的耻辱 (1999) 的沉默的强奸幸存者,但斯奈克斯被指控使性暴力和性剥削的黑人受害者的声音保持沉默——那些最容易陷入困境的人。然而,我认为 Snyckers 的核心关注点之一是批评白人中产阶级享有的特权。
更新日期:2020-07-02
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