ABSTRACT Movement, or travel, characterises the life of Lindiwe Bishop, the main character and narrator in Irene Sabatini’s debut novel, The Boy Next Door. In this paper I examine how Lindiwe’s movements, and experiences in Zimbabwe’s major cities, Harare and Bulawayo, contribute to her construction of a city-dweller’s and a Coloured identity. I also examine how, as places, the cities are related to her identity formation. In the paper I put forward a social constructionist paradigm of Coloured identity and hold that, as places, Bulawayo and Harare play an important role in Lindiwe’s construction and maintenance of a Coloured identity as well as her identity as a city dweller. Through inhabiting and navigating Zimbabwe’s two major cities, Lindiwe inscribes herself upon these places and constructs and reifies a Coloured identity, thereby highlighting her quest to belong to a racial category and community that offer better prospects and privileges than blackness does.

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生活在和穿越城市：艾琳·萨巴蒂尼的《隔壁男孩》中的位置和身份

摘要 运动或旅行是艾琳·萨巴蒂尼 (Irene Sabatini) 处女作《邻家男孩》(The Boy Next Door) 中的主角和叙述者 Lindiwe Bishop 的生活特征。在这篇论文中，我考察了 Lindiwe 的运动以及在津巴布韦主要城市哈拉雷和布拉瓦约的经历如何为她构建城市居民和有色人种身份做出贡献。我还研究了作为地方的城市如何与她的身份形成相关。在论文中，我提出了有色人种身份的社会建构主义范式，并认为布拉瓦约和哈拉雷作为地方，在林迪威构建和维护有色人种身份以及她作为城市居民的身份中发挥着重要作用。通过在津巴布韦的两个主要城市居住和航行，Lindiwe 将自己铭记在这些地方，并构建并具体化了一个有色人种身份，