This paper examines Jacob Dlamini’s two main historical works, Askari (2014) and Native Nostalgia (2009), for the ways in which they critique dominant South African memory practices while offering an alternative, and presumably more ethical, form of memoralisation which can also be read as a modality of temporality in the literary (re)historicisation of South Africa’s national history. In Askari, Dlamini’s recall of collaboration between traitors within the liberation movement and the apartheid security agencies disrupts the received narrative of South Africa’s transition from anti-apartheid struggle to democracy. Similarly, in his earlier book, Native Nostalgia, he provocatively uses nostalgia to challenge the apparent politicisation of official memory projects. Furthermore, both texts adroitly complicate the relationship between the past, present and future in ways that may be read as a re-temporalisation of South African national history by deconstructing notions of a teleological national transition from an apartheid to a post-apartheid dispensation. The paper draws on Chris Lorenz and Berber Bevernage’s (2013) as well as Homi Bhabha’s (1990) theories on the construction of national histories.

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记忆、伦理和雅各布·德拉米尼作品中南非国家历史的重新时间化

本文考察了雅各布·德拉米尼 (Jacob Dlamini) 的两部主要历史著作，阿斯卡里 (2014) 和本土怀旧 (Native Nostalgia) (2009)，以了解他们批评南非主流记忆实践的方式，同时提供了另一种可能更符合道德的记忆形式，这也可以在南非国家历史的文学（重新）历史化过程中，它被解读为一种时间性的形式。在阿斯卡里，德拉米尼回忆起解放运动内部叛徒与种族隔离安全机构之间的合作，打破了人们普遍接受的南非从反种族隔离斗争向民主过渡的叙述。同样，在他较早的著作《乡土怀旧》中，他挑衅地使用怀旧来挑战官方记忆项目的明显政治化。此外，这两个文本巧妙地使过去之间的关系复杂化，通过解构从种族隔离到后种族隔离时代的目的论国家过渡的概念，现在和未来可以被解读为南非国家历史的重新时间化。该论文借鉴了 Chris Lorenz 和 Berber Bevernage (2013) 以及 Homi Bhabha (1990) 关于国家历史建构的理论。