Abstract Recent fictionalized texts on East Africa and on the political turmoil that began just before the 1994 Rwanda genocide, later morphing across the Great Lakes, provide insightful contrasts to the scholarship on transnationalism. Concentrating on two agents that foreground these alterities, ‘the soldier who refuses’ and ‘the refugee’, the article disaggregates this region’s heterotopias. The argument is that, in their walking away from civil wars in East Africa to Southern Africa, these subjects provide an original set of lexical items to interpret new but fragile peoples who break free from the nation state.At the same time, the unique grammar broadens the methodology for considering the ‘Indian Ocean’ as a topic that recurs in studies on East Africa. In this reading, the discussion works with the cultural studies concept of ‘walking’, as its politics of terra firma centres on guerrilla tactics and on how they weaken the postcolony.The first part of the article attempts a review of the cartographies of East Africa.The second section closely considers how the representations of these sets of heterotopias in select fiction on East Africa render this region transnational.

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最近关于东非的虚构文本中的跨国主义

摘要 最近关于东非和 1994 年卢旺达种族灭绝之前开始的政治动荡的虚构文本，后来演变成横跨五大湖，与跨国主义学术提供了深刻的对比。这篇文章着重于突出这些异类的两个代理人，“拒绝的士兵”和“难民”，分解了该地区的异托邦。论点是，在他们从东非内战到南部非洲的过程中，这些主体提供了一套原始的词汇项目来解释摆脱民族国家的新的但脆弱的民族。同时，独特的语法拓宽了将“印度洋”视为东非研究中反复出现的主题的方法。在本阅读中，讨论与“行走”的文化研究概念有关，