Abstract:This essay critically reads Simon Gikandi's Slavery and the Culture of Taste (2011) and poses questions about Gikandi's method of reading allegorically. By closely analyzing his discussion of the painting Two Africans by Rembrandt van Rijn in particular, and scrutinizing how Gikandi sometimes relies on historical and art-historical contextualization and at other moments does not, I argue that his interpretations of the past are up for debate.

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寓言作为历史方法，或阿姆斯特丹与阿尔巴尼亚的相似之处：阅读西蒙·吉坎迪的奴隶制与品味文化

摘要：本文批判性地阅读了西蒙·吉坎迪 (Simon Gikandi) 的《奴隶制与品味文化》(2011)，并对吉坎迪 (Gikandi) 的寓言式阅读方法提出了质疑。通过仔细分析他对伦勃朗·范·莱恩 (Rembrandt van Rijn) 的画作《两个非洲人》(Two Africans) 的讨论，并仔细审视吉坎迪 (Gikandi) 有时如何依赖历史和艺术历史语境化而在其他时候不依赖，我认为他对过去的解释值得争论。