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Serina Maseko in Charles Mungoshi’s Branching Streams Flow in the Dark
English Academy Review Pub Date : 2018-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2018.1534647
Bernice Borain 1 , Mbongeni Malaba 1
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This article argues that the leading character in Charles Mungoshi’s Branching Streams Flow in the Dark (2013. Harare: Mungoshi Press), Serina Maseko, successfully foregrounds the desperate position of women who contract HIV from their husbands. It also explores the stigmatization that ensues. Mungoshi reveals that women like Serina are strong, and, despite the enormous odds, are able to overcome the oppression they experience in patriarchal Zimbabwe. Besides his critique of patriarchy, Mungoshi provides shrewd observations on the sanctimonious nature of some believers, like Laiza, the protagonist’s mother, who is more concerned about her reputation within the church and her community than with her daughter’s welfare. The novel also explores another recurrent theme in Mungoshi’s earlier works written in English, the divided family, using the motif of branching streams. This is a metaphor for the brokenness caused by infidelity and abandonment that causes the division of one stream into many, suggesting that as one stream, the family would be stronger, and probably not ‘in the Dark’.

中文翻译:

查尔斯·芒格希 (Charles Mungoshi) 的《黑暗中的支流流动》中的瑟琳娜·马塞科 (Serina Maseko)

本文认为,查尔斯·芒格希 (Charles Mungoshi) 的《黑暗中的支流流动》(2013 年。哈拉雷:芒格希出版社)的主角塞丽娜·马塞科 (Serina Maseko) 成功地突出了从丈夫那里感染艾滋病毒的妇女的绝望境地。它还探讨了随之而来的污名化。Mungoshi 透露,像 Serina 这样的女性很坚强,尽管困难重重,但她们能够克服她们在父权制津巴布韦所经历的压迫。除了对父权制的批判之外,芒戈希还对一些信徒的道貌岸然进行了精明的观察,比如主角的母亲莱扎,她更关心自己在教会和社区中的声誉,而不是女儿的福祉。小说还探讨了 Mungoshi 早期英文作品中另一个反复出现的主题,分裂的家庭,使用分支流的主题。这是对不忠和遗弃造成的破碎,导致一条溪流分成许多条的比喻,暗示作为一条溪流,家庭会更强大,而且可能不会“在黑暗中”。
更新日期:2018-07-03
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