Africa has been marginalised in the history of Antarctica, a politics of exclusion (with the exception of Apartheid South Africa) reflected unsurprisingly by a dearth of imaginative, cultural and literary engagement. But, in addition to paleontological and geophysical links, Antarctica has increasing interrelationship with Africa’s climactic future. Africa is widely predicted to be the continent worst affected by climate change, and Antarctica and its surrounding Southern Ocean are uniquely implicated as crucial mediators for changing global climate and currents, rainfall patterns, and sea level rise. This paper proposes that there are in fact several ways of imagining the far South from Africa in literary and cultural terms. One is to read against the grain for southern-directed perspectives in existing African literature and the arts, from southern coastlines looking south; another is to reexamine both familiar and new, speculative narratives of African weather – drought, flood and change – for their Antarctic entanglements. In the context of ongoing work on postcolonial Antarctica and calls to decolonise Antarctic studies – such readings can begin to bridge the Antarctica–Africa divide.

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南极洲和非洲：讲述另类的未来

非洲在南极洲的历史上一直被边缘化，一种排斥的政治（南非种族隔离除外）毫不奇怪地反映在缺乏想象力、文化和文学参与上。但是，除了古生物学和地球物理联系之外，南极洲与非洲气候未来的相互关系日益增加。人们普遍预测非洲将是受气候变化影响最严重的大陆，南极洲及其周围的南大洋被独特地暗示为全球气候和洋流变化、降雨模式和海平面上升的关键调解者。本文提出，实际上有几种方法可以从文学和文化的角度来想象远离非洲的南部。一是逆向阅读现有非洲文学和艺术中的南方视角，从南部海岸线向南看；另一个是重新审视对非洲天气——干旱、洪水和变化——的熟悉和新的推测性叙述，以了解它们与南极的纠葛。在后殖民南极洲正在进行的工作和对南极洲研究非殖民化的呼吁的背景下——这样的解读可以开始弥合南极洲-非洲的鸿沟。