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Family Affairs: Complicity, Betrayal, and the Family in Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men and Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture Pub Date : 2019-06-04 , DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.3547
Lital Levy

This essay undertakes a comparative reading of the dynamics of complicity and resistance in two contemporary Anglophone novels, Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story (1990) and Hisham Matar’s In the Country of Men (2006). My analysis pursues three main lines of inquiry: the ostensible public/ private and political/ personal divides; loyalty and betrayal in the family; and the ambiguous status of the child as a witness and a political subject. I argue that in their respective portrayals of the protagonists’ struggles against South African apartheid and authoritarian rule in Libya, both authors use the device of the child narrator to expose the tension between the family and the political world, pointing to the fallacy of separating the political from the personal. The two novels depict complicity not as a problem of individual morality in a standoff against the state’s abuse of power, but rather as an issue that is deeply embedded in the psychology of family relations. As such, they lead us to evaluate both resistance and complicity through the lens of familial betrayal. Ultimately, Gordimer and Matar use the child narrator’s partial understanding to reconsider the ethics of complicity, yet the two authors diverge in their political conclusions. Lital Levy, "Family Affairs: Complicity, Betrayal, and the Family in Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men page 2 of 15 and Nadine Gordimer's My Father's Son" CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.3 (2019): Special Issue On Complicity and Dissent. Ed. Nitzan Lebovic

中文翻译:

家庭事务:希瑟·马塔尔(Hsham Matar)的《男人的国家》和纳丁·戈迪默(Nadine Gordimer)的《我的儿子的故事》中的同谋,背叛和家庭

本文比较了纳丁·戈迪默(Nadine Gordimer)的《我的儿子的故事》(My Son's Story)(1990年)和希沙姆·马塔尔(Hisham Matar)的《男人的乡村》(2006年)中的两部当代英语英语小说的同谋和抵抗动力。我的分析遵循三个主要问题:表面上的公共/私人和政治/个人鸿沟;对家庭的忠诚和背叛;以及儿童作为证人和政治主体的模棱两可的地位。我争辩说,在两位主角分别描绘利比亚反对南非种族隔离和专制统治的斗争时,两位作者都使用儿童叙述者的手段来揭露家庭与政治世界之间的紧张关系,指出分离种族隔离的谬论。政治来自个人。这两部小说描绘的共谋不是在对抗国家滥用权力的对立中的个人道德问题,而是深深植根于家庭关系心理学中的问题。因此,它们引导我们通过家族背叛的视角评估抵抗力和同谋力。最终,戈迪默和马塔尔利用儿童叙述者的部分理解重新考虑了共谋的伦理,但两位作者在政治结论上存在分歧。利塔尔·利维(Lital Levy),“家庭事务:共谋,背叛和家庭中的希沙姆·马塔尔(Hsham Matar)的《男人所在的国家》第2页,共15页和纳丁·戈迪默(Nadine Gordimer)的《我的父亲的儿子》” CLCWeb:比较文学与文化21.3(2019):他们引导我们通过家族背叛的视角评估抵抗力和同谋心。最终,戈迪默和马塔尔利用儿童叙述者的部分理解重新考虑了共谋的伦理,但两位作者在政治结论上存在分歧。利塔尔·利维(Lital Levy),“家庭事务:共谋,背叛和家庭中的希沙姆·马塔尔(Hsham Matar)的《男人所在的国家》第2页,共15页和纳丁·戈迪默(Nadine Gordimer)的《我的父亲的儿子》” CLCWeb:比较文学与文化21.3(2019):他们引导我们通过家族背叛的视角评估抵抗力和同谋心。最终,戈迪默和马塔尔利用儿童叙述者的部分理解重新考虑了共谋的伦理,但两位作者在政治结论上存在分歧。利塔尔·利维(Lital Levy),“家庭事务:共谋,背叛和家庭中的希沙姆·马塔尔(Hsham Matar)的《男人所在的国家》第2页,共15页和纳丁·戈迪默(Nadine Gordimer)的《我的父亲的儿子》” CLCWeb:比较文学与文化21.3(2019):共谋与异议特刊。埃德 尼赞·莱博维奇
更新日期:2019-06-04
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