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The Idea of a Good and Bad Gemeinschaft in William Bloke Modisane’s Autobiography, Blame Me on History
African Historical Review ( IF 0.1 ) Pub Date : 2017-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/17532523.2017.1341466
Lucky Mathebe 1
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ABSTRACT William Bloke Modisane, the African writer and journalist, attracted wide notice with his autobiography, Blame Me on History, which was banned in South Africa in 1963, the year in which it received its first publication. The sociologist's interest in Modisane's autobiography can be located in several basic themes (among these can be counted the problem of his cultural dilemma as a member of the African middle class), but for present purposes, we need to note only one aspect of the book which I think has been constantly ignored, namely the sociological tradition that informs the meaning of his concept of the community— Sophiatown. The name “Sophiatown” carries a profoundly important meaning in Modisane's autobiography. I will argue that in the sociological sense in which the Drum writer uses the name, he articulates the central notions of what the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies regards as a Gemeinschaft social order. There is a different, though related, point that needs to be made about Modisane's use of the term “community”: if we read his book carefully, we can see that it contains two different narratives about Sophiatown, a positive one which appears to have been slightly romanticised, and a negative one, which focuses on the community's darker side, showing it up to have been a Gemeinschaft in an unusual way. It is through this binary opposition that Modisane creates in his autobiography that he shows his ambiguity with regard to his Gemeinschaft community.

中文翻译:

威廉·布洛克·莫迪萨内自传中的好与坏 Gemeinschaft 的想法,怪我历史

摘要 非洲作家兼记者威廉·布洛克·莫迪萨内 (William Bloke Modisane) 的自传《历史上的责备我》引起了广泛关注,该自传于 1963 年在南非被禁,那年该书首次出版。社会学家对莫迪萨内自传的兴趣可以集中在几个基本主题上(其中可以算作他作为非洲中产阶级成员的文化困境问题),但就目前而言,我们只需要注意本书的一个方面我认为这一点一直被忽视,即影响他的社区概念的社会学传统——索菲亚敦。“索菲亚镇”这个名字在莫迪萨内的自传中有着极其重要的意义。我会争辩说,在鼓作家使用这个名字的社会学意义上,他阐明了德国社会学家 Ferdinand Tönnies 所认为的 Gemeinschaft 社会秩序的核心概念。关于莫迪萨内对“社区”一词的使用,有一个不同但相关的观点需要说明:如果我们仔细阅读他的书,我们会发现它包含了关于索菲亚镇的两种不同的叙述,一种积极的叙述似乎有有点浪漫化,而负面的则侧重于社区的阴暗面,以一种不寻常的方式显示它是一个 Gemeinschaft。正是通过莫迪萨内在他的自传中创造的这种二元对立,他展示了他对 Gemeinschaft 社区的含糊不清。关于 Modisane 对“社区”一词的使用需要说明的一点:如果我们仔细阅读他的书,我们会发现它包含两种关于 Sophiatown 的不同叙述,一种是正面的,似乎有点浪漫化,另一种是负面的,它关注社区的阴暗面,以一种不寻常的方式展示它是一个 Gemeinschaft。正是通过莫迪萨内在他的自传中创造的这种二元对立,他展示了他对 Gemeinschaft 社区的含糊不清。关于 Modisane 对“社区”一词的使用需要说明的一点:如果我们仔细阅读他的书,我们会发现它包含两种关于 Sophiatown 的不同叙述,一种是正面的,似乎有点浪漫化,另一种是负面的,它关注社区的阴暗面,以一种不寻常的方式展示它是一个 Gemeinschaft。正是通过莫迪萨内在他的自传中创造的这种二元对立,他展示了他对 Gemeinschaft 社区的含糊不清。以一种不寻常的方式表明它是一个 Gemeinschaft。正是通过莫迪萨内在他的自传中创造的这种二元对立,他展示了他对 Gemeinschaft 社区的含糊不清。以一种不寻常的方式表明它是一个 Gemeinschaft。正是通过莫迪萨内在他的自传中创造的这种二元对立,他展示了他对 Gemeinschaft 社区的含糊不清。
更新日期:2017-01-02
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