Hortense Spillers asserts the imperative for black writers to reconfigure the languages they inherit. One way of doing so is to craft counter-myths against dominative mythologies. Spillers casts myth as an integration of form and concept which overdetermines the significance of what it is used to talk about. One crucial effect of America’s racialising mythos has been to deny black women the ability to determine that significance. She then describes how this mythos is crafted through a double wounding that creates at least two ‘interstices’—first between home and market, then between blackness and humanity—which are covered up by mythological terms. Finally, Spillers shows how counter-mythologies can be crafted by speaking from within these interstices to reconfigure the conditions of possibility governing meaningful speech, taking the 19th- century African-American preaching tradition as her example. The article concludes by reflecting on what it might mean to practice Christian theology as counter-mythology in light of Spillers’ work through a reading of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker.

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重新梳理神秘的结构：思考神话、反神话和基督教神学与 Hortense Spillers

Hortense Spillers 断言黑人作家必须重新配置他们继承的语言。这样做的一种方法是针对主流神话制作反神话。Spillers 将神话视为形式和概念的结合，它过度确定了它所谈论的内容的重要性。美国种族化神话的一个关键影响是剥夺了黑人女性确定这种重要性的能力。然后，她描述了这个神话是如何通过双重创伤创造出来的，这种双重创伤创造了至少两个“空隙”——首先是在家庭和市场之间，然后是在黑暗和人性之间——它们被神话术语所掩盖。最后，Spillers 展示了如何通过从这些空隙中说话来重新配置管理有意义的言论的可能性条件，来制作反神话，以 19 世纪非裔美国人的传教传统为例。文章最后通过阅读 Edwidge Danticat 的 The Dew Breaker 反思了根据 Spillers 的作品将基督教神学作为反神话实践可能意味着什么。