ABSTRACT

This paper is a consideration of a limited number of social and creative imaginaries and their pivotal and difficult implications for trans-generational reflections, narratives and cultural memory in South Africa. The first part of the paper centres around the role-played by narrative. In black communities, the attempts to envision and elaborate alternative understandings of history were acts of knowledge production that negated imperial and colonial modernity and especially their politics of racial subjection and exclusion. The section concludes with a brief consideration of the hermeneutical challenges that are presented by conventional interpretive approaches to narrative and its political imperatives. Following the underscoring of why narrative matters, the second part of the paper maps out the persistent ways in which alienation is foregrounded as an important constituent of black-senses-of-being, especially in relation to the land, the means of life, kin, space and the social-formation. The discussion concludes with a consideration of some key challenges that the calls for transformation and decolonisation present for the processes of knowledge production, narration and interpretation.

摘要

本文考虑的是有限数量的社会和创造力虚构及其对南非跨代思考，叙事和文化记忆的关键和艰难的影响。本文的第一部分围绕叙事角色扮演。在黑人社区，试图构想和阐述对历史的另类理解的尝试是知识生产的行为，这种行为否定了帝国和殖民地的现代性，特别是否定了他们对种族服从和排斥的政治。本节最后简要介绍了传统的解释性叙事方法及其政治要求所带来的解释学挑战。在强调叙述为何如此重要之后，本文的第二部分阐述了将异化作为黑人存在的重要组成部分的持久方式，特别是在土地，生活方式，亲属，空间和社会形态方面。讨论结束时考虑了一些关键挑战，这些挑战要求对知识生产，叙述和解释过程进行转型和非殖民化。