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Olaudah Equiano's Enchantments
Early American Literature Pub Date : 2023-08-09 , DOI: 10.1353/eal.2023.a903778
Bryan C. Williams

Abstract:

Of late, much scholarship on Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative has focused either on the meaning of Equiano's Christianity in postcolonial terms or the debate over Equiano's actual place of birth. To be sure, these discussions have been illuminating in many ways, but this essay seeks to change direction in Equiana by calling attention to the enchantments that infuse Equiano's life story—the magical and miraculous events that structure the narrative of his experience and the corresponding concepts of enchanted space and time by which he interprets them. Presenting supernatural experiences as evidence of his sensibility to the enchanted substrata of the world, Equiano, I argue, attempts a counter-cartographic project of locating Africa and Africans at the center of the atlas of world history over and against the dominant British assumption that Africa had no place in the history of human civilization. To accomplish this remapping, Equiano deploys enchanted scenes rhetorically to depict Africa as central to geohistorical time. Concomitantly, in his presentation of miraculous encounters, Equiano stresses a competing hermeneutics of enchantment that sanctions his new depiction and, along with it, his calls for abolition and justice. In focusing on Equiano's sensibility to extraempirical dimensions of geography and history, I hope to provide scholars of secular and religious orientations, as well as those divided over Equiano's empirical birthplace, some ground for collaboration and new discussion.



中文翻译:

奥劳达·艾奎亚诺的魔咒

摘要:

最近,关于 Olaudah Equiano有趣的叙述的学术研究很多要么关注艾奎亚诺基督教在后殖民术语中的意义,要么关注艾奎亚诺实际出生地的争论。诚然,这些讨论在很多方面都具有启发性,但本文试图通过引起人们对注入艾奎亚诺人生故事的魅力的关注来改变《艾奎亚纳》的方向——那些神奇的事件构成了他的经历的叙述和相应的概念。他解释它们的迷人空间和时间。我认为,艾奎亚诺将超自然的经历作为他对世界魔法底层的敏感性的证据,试图开展一项反制图计划,将非洲和非洲人置于世界历史地图集的中心,以反对英国占主导地位的假设,即非洲在人类文明史上没有地位。为了完成这一重新绘制,艾奎亚诺巧妙地运用了迷人的场景,将非洲描绘成地史时代的中心。与此同时,在描述奇迹般的遭遇时,艾奎亚诺强调了一种相互竞争的魅力解释学,这种解释学认可了他的新描述,以及他对废奴和正义的呼吁。在关注艾奎亚诺对地理和历史的超经验维度的敏感性时,我希望为世俗和宗教取向的学者以及那些对艾奎亚诺的经验诞生地存在分歧的学者提供一些合作和新讨论的基础。为了完成这一重新绘制,艾奎亚诺巧妙地运用了迷人的场景,将非洲描绘成地史时代的中心。与此同时,在描述奇迹般的遭遇时,艾奎亚诺强调了一种相互竞争的魅力解释学,这种解释学认可了他的新描述,以及他对废奴和正义的呼吁。在关注艾奎亚诺对地理和历史的超经验维度的敏感性时,我希望为世俗和宗教取向的学者以及那些对艾奎亚诺的经验诞生地存在分歧的学者提供一些合作和新讨论的基础。为了完成这一重新绘制,艾奎亚诺巧妙地运用了迷人的场景,将非洲描绘成地史时代的中心。与此同时,在描述奇迹般的遭遇时,艾奎亚诺强调了一种相互竞争的魅力解释学,这种解释学认可了他的新描述,以及他对废奴和正义的呼吁。在关注艾奎亚诺对地理和历史的超经验维度的敏感性时,我希望为世俗和宗教取向的学者以及那些对艾奎亚诺的经验诞生地存在分歧的学者提供一些合作和新讨论的基础。艾奎亚诺强调一种相互竞争的魅力解释学,这种解释学认可了他的新描述,以及随之而来的他对废奴和正义的呼吁。在关注艾奎亚诺对地理和历史的超经验维度的敏感性时,我希望为世俗和宗教取向的学者以及那些对艾奎亚诺的经验诞生地存在分歧的学者提供一些合作和新讨论的基础。艾奎亚诺强调一种相互竞争的魅力解释学,这种解释学认可了他的新描述,以及随之而来的他对废奴和正义的呼吁。在关注艾奎亚诺对地理和历史的超经验维度的敏感性时,我希望为世俗和宗教取向的学者以及那些对艾奎亚诺的经验诞生地存在分歧的学者提供一些合作和新讨论的基础。

更新日期:2023-08-09
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