Slavery is practiced throughout the realm of ghosts in Amos Tutuola’s novel, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and raises the question as to whether its presence in this realm is fully human. Slavery is presented in certain respects as an anti-human aberration: not only do the ghosts themselves implement varied forms of slavery, but also, at the climactic moment in the human realm, it is music, with its numerous humane associations, that possesses the power to surmount the vices associated with slavery. Tutuola’s hero-narrator deploys a childhood song to reach past the defenses of his slaveholding brother’s consciousness; the song locates in the brother not just the memory of his childhood with the narrator but also the deep love that imbues their bond. Accessing the liberating potential of human art and love, the narrator-hero touches in this way the brother he had known and ends his own enslavement. Tutuola does not assert, however, that family ties and the renewal of love alone will bring about a more gen...

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“救赎之歌”：阿莫斯·图图拉《我在鬼丛中的生活》中奴隶制的破坏

在阿莫斯·图图拉 (Amos Tutuola) 的小说《我在鬼丛中的生活》(My Life in the Bush of Ghosts) 中，奴隶制在整个鬼魂领域都实行，并提出了一个问题，即它在这个领域的存在是否完全是人类。奴隶制在某些方面被认为是一种反人类的反常现象：不仅鬼魂本身实施了各种形式的奴隶制，而且在人类领域的高潮时刻，音乐及其众多的人性化联想具有克服与奴隶制相关的恶习的权力。图图拉的英雄叙述者用一首儿歌来突破他的奴隶兄弟的意识防御；这首歌不仅在兄弟身上找到了他与叙述者的童年记忆，而且还体现了他们之间的深厚爱意。获得人类艺术和爱的解放潜力，叙述者英雄以这种方式接触了他认识的兄弟并结束了自己的奴役。然而，图图拉并没有断言，仅靠家庭纽带和爱情的更新就会带来更多的...