ABSTRACT The article discusses three contemporary works about and by first- and second-generation South African exiles. In Lauretta Ngcobo's collection of memoirs, Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile (Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2012), 17 South African women present their personal accounts of political exile. In Sisonke Msimang's Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2017), she writes about her exile childhood in Zambia, Kenya, Canada, and the United States, and her return to South Africa in the 1990s. Finally, Zinzi Clemmons's experimentalist debut novel, in the form of a grief memoir, What We Lose (New York: Viking, 2017), features a protagonist who, like the author, is a young American woman, the daughter of a South African mother and an African American father. All three works engage with the South African exile's experience of unhoming and conflicted homecoming, and, importantly, with what home has come to signify for second-generation exiles. Focusing on the central exilic motifs of home and homecoming, the article shows how any essentialist or foundational notion of “home” is complicated by the experience of exile, especially for children of exile. Through an analysis of memoir and fictional memoir, the article argues that chaos complexity theory, with its principle of generative disorder and trajectories that are nonlinear, multidirectional, irreversible, unforeseen, unpredictable, and unstoppable, might also provide a useful paradigm for understanding the experiences and approaching the writings of those whose lives have been shaped in the wake of their parents’ exile.

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Lauretta Ngcobo 编辑的浪子们的混乱返乡，Sisonke Msimang 的永远另一个国家，以及我们失去的东西 Zinzi Clemmons

摘要 本文讨论了关于第一代和第二代南非流亡者的三部当代作品。在 Lauretta Ngcobo 的回忆录集《Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile》（斯科茨维尔：夸祖鲁-纳塔尔大学出版社，2012 年）中，17 位南非女性展示了她们对政治流亡的个人描述。在 Sisonke Msimang 的《永远的另一个国家：流亡与家园的回忆录》（约翰内斯堡：乔纳森·鲍尔，2017 年）中，她描写了她在赞比亚、肯尼亚、加拿大和美国的流亡童年，以及 1990 年代返回南非的故事。最后，辛兹克莱蒙斯的实验主义处女作，以悲伤回忆录的形式，我们失去了什么（纽约：维京，2017），主人公和作者一样，是一位年轻的美国女性，一位南非母亲和一位非裔美国人父亲的女儿。这三部作品都与南非流亡者的流离失所和冲突的归乡经历有关，重要的是，家对第二代流亡者的意义。文章聚焦于回家和归乡的中心流放主题，展示了“家”的本质主义或基本概念如何因流亡经历而变得复杂，尤其是对流亡儿童而言。文章通过对回忆录和虚构回忆录的分析，认为混沌复杂性理论以其生成障碍的原理和非线性、多向、不可逆转、不可预见、不可预测和不可阻挡的轨迹，