Neural science and cognitive psychology have in recent years established the fundamental importance of episodic memory in the formation of an individual’s personal and social identity. These models of understanding help to explain the widespread prevalence of the shades in numerous cultural and literary traditions, including those in contemporary South Africa. This paper applies these findings to the appearance of the shades in the work of poets as diverse as Homer, Dante, Hardy and Vilakazi, and argues that a fuller recognition of the universality of the shades challenges the inward and spiritual apartheid of individuals in a globalised world fissured by recalcitrant identity politics.

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归属之诗：情节记忆和阴影

近年来，神经科学和认知心理学确立了情景记忆在个人和社会身份形成过程中的根本重要性。这些理解模型有助于解释阴影在众多文化和文学传统中的广泛流行，包括当代南非的传统。本文将这些发现应用于荷马、但丁、哈代和维拉卡齐等不同诗人作品中阴影的出现，并认为对阴影的普遍性的更全面认识挑战了全球化中个人的内在和精神种族隔离。世界因顽固的身份政治而分裂。