Abstract:Henrietta Rose-Innes's novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes drawn from South Africa's history to address ecological concerns. Rose-Innes transforms South African literature's "vermin" imaginary to collapse figurative boundaries among humans and nonhumans, and repurposes the fraught concept of "relocation" to spotlight creaturely entanglements in the post-apartheid city. These gestures of reclamation produce a representational tension, reframing immediate political matters to focus on more durable ecological concerns. Yet Nineveh further tilts these discourses into an "ethics of transience" attentive to ecological scale but still cognizant of historical and ongoing injustices. The novel thus undertakes an "ecological relocation," understood along the lines of the essay's three movements as figurative interchange, spatial transit, and perceptual rescaling.

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害虫中的生活：尼尼微与生态迁移

摘要：Henrietta Rose-Innes 的小说尼尼微 (2011) 记录了一位人道害虫专家的活动，她发现在开普敦郊外正在建设的庄园中，人类和昆虫行为者如何破坏种族隔离后南非的空间期望。Rose-Innes 通过重新塑造从南非历史中汲取的有争议的主题来解决生态问题，从而推进了种间联系的愿景。Rose-Innes 改变了南非文学中的“害虫”想象，以打破人类和非人类之间的比喻界限，并重新利用“搬迁”这一令人担忧的概念，以突出种族隔离后城市的生物纠缠。这些开垦的姿态产生了一种代表性的张力，重新规划了眼前的政治问题，以关注更持久的生态问题。然而，尼尼微进一步将这些话语倾斜为一种“短暂的伦理”，关注生态规模，但仍然认识到历史和持续的不公正。因此，小说进行了一次“生态重新定位”，按照文章的三个运动的思路来理解，即比喻交换、空间传输和感知重新缩放。