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Marginalia as narratives of ordinary lives: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Down to This
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Pub Date : 2021-01-05 , DOI: 10.1177/0021989420981115
Silvia Julia Caporale-Bizzini 1
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This article examines Canadian author Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s 2004 memoir Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown through the notions of marginalia and the ordinary in order to question dichotomic representations of homelessness. It explores how the author moves beyond binaries, interrogating the dichotomy ordinary/out of the ordinary lives by narrating his ethical encounter with the other (Butler, 2004). The text is written as a journal where Bishop-Stall describes his personal journey through homelessness; and more importantly, it gives a voice to the other down-and-out people in notorious Toronto’s Tent City. The characters’ unreliable and fragmented storytelling uncovers the lives of the faceless others. I contend that in Down to This individuals’ life stories are connected to realities which question binaries through the re/mapping of ordinary experiences and affects; they disintegrate the opposition materiality vs abstraction, or as I argue, exclusion vs inclusion (out of the ordinary/ordinary). Down to These bridges the private details of the residents’ life stories, and the public perception of the problem of homelessness, illustrating how everyday moments of precarity intersect with wider political issues. In the process, the narrative also questions the binary attitudes of exclusion (disfranchisement) and inclusion (privilege). This literary strategy gives the constellation of stories a profound illuminating vision of the human condition. I show my point by drawing on the of marginalia (Kistner 2014), and by analysing the characters’ narratives of precariousness through the notions of editing and affective assemblage (Gerlach, 2015; Hamilakis, 2017).



中文翻译:

边缘主义作为普通生活的叙事:肖尼西·毕晓普·斯托尔的沉迷于此

本文考察了加拿大作家肖内西·毕晓普·斯托尔(Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall)于2004年撰写的回忆录,内容如下:大城市棚户区的肮脏和辉煌通过边缘化和普通的概念来质疑无家可归的二分法表示。它探讨了作者如何超越二进制,通过叙述自己与他人之间的道德遭遇来审视平凡/非平凡的生活二分法(Butler,2004)。文本写成日记,Bishop-Stall在其中描述了他通过无家可归而经历的个人旅程;更重要的是,它为臭名昭著的多伦多帐篷城中的其他沉浮人士发出了声音。角色不可靠且零散的故事讲述了那些不露面的人的生活。我认为,在《至此》中,个人的生活故事与现实联系在一起,这些现实通过重新/映射普通的经历和影响来质疑二进制。他们将反对派的实质性与抽象性瓦解了,或者正如我所说,排除与包含(非同寻常/普通)。直到这些,都弥合了居民生活故事的私人细节,以及公众对无家可归问题的认识,从而说明了每天的危险时刻如何与更广泛的政治问题相交。在这一过程中,叙述还质疑排斥(剥夺权利)和包容(特权)的二元态度。这种文学策略使故事群对人类状况有了深刻的启发。我通过边缘化(Kistner 2014),并通过编辑和情感组合的概念来分析角色的不稳定叙事来表达我的观点(Gerlach,2015; Hamilakis,2017)。以及公众对无家可归问题的认识,说明了illustrating可危的每一天如何与更广泛的政治问题相交。在这一过程中,叙述还质疑排斥(剥夺权利)和包容(特权)的二元态度。这种文学策略使故事群对人类状况有了深刻的启发。我通过边缘化(Kistner 2014),并通过编辑和情感组合的概念来分析角色的不稳定叙事来表达我的观点(Gerlach,2015; Hamilakis,2017)。以及公众对无家可归问题的认识,说明了illustrating可危的每一天如何与更广泛的政治问题相交。在这一过程中,叙述还质疑排斥(剥夺权利)和包容(特权)的二元态度。这种文学策略使故事群对人类状况有了深刻的启发。我通过边缘化(Kistner 2014),并通过编辑和情感组合的概念来分析角色的不稳定叙事来表达我的观点(Gerlach,2015; Hamilakis,2017)。这种文学策略使故事群对人类状况有了深刻的启发。我通过边缘化(Kistner 2014),并通过编辑和情感组合的概念来分析角色的不稳定叙事来表达我的观点(Gerlach,2015; Hamilakis,2017)。这种文学策略使故事群对人类状况有了深刻的启发。我通过边缘化(Kistner 2014),并通过编辑和情感组合的概念来分析角色的不稳定叙事来表达我的观点(Gerlach,2015; Hamilakis,2017)。

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