Abstract Through a reading of Teju Cole’s novel Open City (2011), this article argues that the exposure of black migrants constitutes the principal organizing conceit of global literary culture and knowledge production. The novel’s protagonist, a Nigerian emigre named Julius, is faced with ceaseless scrutiny as he traverses urban spaces in the US, Europe, and West Africa, meeting other migrants. In staging Julius’ encounters with others, the novel allegorizes a structure of racialized subjection continuous with the modern history of western epistemology and glaringly present in the contemporary. Yet it also provides grounds for a recursive ethic of opacity, which Julius eagerly endorses. The article surveys critical studies of race, migration, infrastructure, and world literature, in addition to Cole’s writings on photography. The aim is not only to uncover the logics of racialization at play in the enactment of culture, but also to conceive of culture itself as a historical infrastructure of privation and control.

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Teju Cole 的暴露和黑人移民

摘要 本文通过阅读特珠科尔的小说《开放城市》（2011），认为黑人移民的曝光构成了全球文学文化和知识生产的主要组织构想。小说的主人公是尼日利亚移民尤利乌斯，他在穿越美国、欧洲和西非的城市空间，遇到其他移民时面临着无休止的审视。在讲述朱利叶斯与他人的遭遇时，这部小说寓言了一种种族化的服从结构，这种结构与西方认识论的现代历史相延续，并在当代明显存在。然而，它也为不透明的递归伦理提供了基础，朱利叶斯热切地赞同这种伦理。除了科尔关于摄影的著作之外，这篇文章还调查了对种族、移民、基础设施和世界文学的批判性研究。