Jae Xin
Zhang Ailing 100: Everyone should read Ailing Zhang
September 30 this year is the 100th birthday of Ailing Zhang. Many media reiterated and commemorated Zhang Ailing. The two Taiwanese media "United Literature" "And "INK Engraved Literary Life Chronicles" (hereinafter referred to as "Ink")
The August issue of "INK Imprinting Literary Life"
"Everyone should read his own Zhang Ailing", as the executive editor of "Ink" Cai Junjie said in the editorial report of the August issue, this may be an important theme of Zhang Ailing for a century. . In August and September, the topic of "Ingraving" is "Zhang Ailing 100". "Imprinting" invites scholars and literati to reinterpret Zhang Ailing, focusing on works, cultural symptoms, historical context, and so on. "United Literature" is titled "1912-1949 Republican Women's Pictorial: Zhang Ailing is so surprised at 100 years old", and highlights Zhang Ailing's uniqueness among the female groups in the Republic of China through cultural research.
writer Yang Zhao discussed Zhang Ailing’s classicism in "The Centennial Festival of Zhang Ailing" (published in the August issue of "Printing"), and also combed Zhang Ailing's reading history and influence history. Yang Zhao thought that "from 1920 to 2020, we couldn't find any other authors in this century, who had the status of Zhang Ailing." Yang Zhao found that many of Zhang Ailing's readers were writers. "Those who want to write will deliberately read Zhang Ailing's novels, learn how to write novels from Zhang Ailing's novels, and consciously follow and imitate Zhang Ailing's style to write Zhang Ailing's novels." Zhang Ailing can be described as a writer among the writers.
"Zhang Ailing is a legend, Zhang Xue, Zhang Pai, grandmother and grandmother, and a generation of literary queens. These are positive words. Turned over, that is the mortal world like you and me." The writer Jian Zhen said in an article. Wei Kefeng archived the diseases that Zhang Ailing wrote in her letters and diaries, and listed her entire history of diseases, ranging from small diseases such as typhoid fever to mysterious skin diseases in her later years. "In 1983, Zhang Ailing wrote to Johnson Johnson, saying that fleas from neighboring cats and dogs were introduced, and the next few letters began to'flea drifting.'" During her lifetime, Zhang Ailing will have several illnesses every year.
screenwriter Cai Tianlun expressed his love and hate attitude towards Zhang Ailing in the article "Hate Zhang Ailing". When she was on a college graduation trip, she was fascinated by watching "Half Life", so that she forgot about her surroundings and other things, and forgot the boat she took. Her memory only left the words "We can't go back". This may be the typical attitude towards Zhang Ailing, "And I, I don’t dare to challenge the remake of Zhang Ailing for the rest of my life. Her master of detail and metaphor is too difficult to serve and cannot be handled by a creator like me. Or, I'd rather be cute, hate Zhang Ailing in the text, and don't let these dreams in my mind become real. Don't wake us sleepwalkers."
Zadi Smith and other writers joined the "Revolt against Extinction" non-violent movement, Protest against right-wing think tanks downplaying the climate crisis
September 2, UK time, the second day of the “Extinction Rebellion” (XR) movement, British writer Zadie Smith, British actor Mark Lilangs Rylance joined the "Writers Rebel" movement to urge people to face the climate crisis and oppose politicians' rhetoric of downplaying the crisis.
Writers at 55 Tufton Street. Speakers from the
“Rebellion Writers” group crowded Tufton Street to protest. Tufton Street is also known as Brexit Street. Number 55 on this street is the nine right-wing think tanks including TaxPayers' Alliance, Global Warming Policy Foundation, and Brexit Central. The meeting place of the regiment. At the entrance of No. 55 Tufton Street, the words "lie, lie, economy and lie" were sprayed by protesters.
In response to an interview with "Guardian" , Zadie Smith said, "The huge, unruly emotions surrounding the scientific fact of climate change are caused by something more thoughtful and external than biological shame. They are not organic, natural, and inevitable, but are driven by oil companies and other vested economic interestsThe emotions created, customized, arranged, and paid by the group, these vested economic interest groups sacrifice people's long-term future for their short-term interests. This is no longer a personal moral issue. This is a structural problem of corrupt politics and a lie at the highest level of our government. This economic exploitation based on the survival of the entire planet poses a huge challenge to human survival. The fate of this planet cannot be determined by the men and women who are paid generously in the dark office. This planet belongs to mankind. More precisely, we all belong to this planet. "
Supporters of this ten-day "Resistance to Extinction" movement include the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood (Margaret Atwood), American novelist and Environmental activist Jonathan Franzen, Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, Chinese-British writer Jane filmmaker Guo Xiaolu. Guo Xiaolu carefully expressed his pessimistic view: "The influence of the Anthropocene Is huge. If it reaches the final stage of the Anthropocene, the words of writers no longer make sense. "She believes that mankind will disappear and the earth will survive. At the same time, she also believes that literature is a myth of mankind and needs to be oriented towards nature; but today, literature has no hope.
Atwood is "resisting extinction." The video on the official YouTube account stated that human activities lead to climate change. This is not a theory or an opinion, but a fact. Denying this fact for the benefit of money will lead to the extinction of the human species. It’s very late, but it’s late enough,” she said. Atwood has been writing dystopian novels since the 1980s.
Rebellion against Extinction is a decentralized, non-political global organization founded in 2018 In May, its symbol is a round hourglass. Its goal is to allow people to face the reality of the Anthropocene, which is the Sixth Mass Extinction, and make positive and fruitful At the beginning of its establishment in 2018, "Resisting Extinction" set its own goals: (1) Call on the government to tell the truth and declare a climate and ecological emergency to citizens; (2) Call on the government to stop it by 2025 Loss of biodiversity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero; (3) Call on the government to establish a citizens’ assembly on climate and ecological justice and accept the decision-making leadership of the citizens’ assembly; (4) Call on the government to give priority to the most vulnerable The sovereignty of the people and indigenous peoples. Among them, the fourth article was added when the movement expanded to the United States. On October 31, 2018, "Resisting Extinction" convened about 100 scholars to issue a declaration to the British government in Parliament Square in London. Subsequently. On November 17th, about 6,000 people blocked the five major bridges on the Thames in London and maintained them for several hours. At the time, it was the largest demonstration in Britain in this century. In 2019, "resisting the extinction" "Expanded to New York, Cape Town and other places in the world.
"The'social contract' has been broken... Therefore, it is our right and ours to bypass the government's inaction and flagrant negligence and defend life itself." Responsibility", one of the organizers of the parade, Gail Bradbrook (Gail Bradbrook) said in 2018, "Like our ancestors, occupying the streets will bring about change. Only this kind of large-scale economic destruction can make the government quickly sit at the negotiating table and discuss our demands. We are ready to take risks for our future. "
" in July this year, "Times" published an article pointed out that the most powerful tactic of the "Resistance to Extinction" movement is political mobilization. After two years of exploration, this movement has penetrated into the community and produced great effects. "Being a security force When protests cannot be controlled, it will be easier for the government to take drastic actions to reduce carbon emissions, rather than stand by and allow the protests to continue. "The former director of Greenpeace and the secretary-general of Amnesty International, Kumi Naidu, also said that "resisting extinction" has achieved quite good results with a small amount of resources in a short period of time.
Claudia Rankin Criticizing racism
Claudia Rankine (Claudia Rankine) continues her right in the new work "Just Us" (Just Us)Criticism of racism. "Just Us" is a scrapbook type of work, including poems, screenshots of web pages, essays, historical documents, etc. More importantly, "Just Us" is also mixed in content. She intertwined daily narrative and critical narrative. "It's just us" is taken from the famous American talk show actor Richard Pryor (Richard Pryor), "you go there to find justice, all you find-only us." This sentence is also the inscription of the book.
Claudia Rankin
"For me, people of color mean not structurally white white (not structurally white), they are not part of the structural power of institutions, these structures destroy others, or deprive them Right, or expel them from the country, or pass passive or radical legislation to eliminate racial discrimination against certain groups of people, so that white people can’t see others. As Jiménez Román put it, Puerto Rico 75.8% Puerto Ricans all think that they are white and a member of the ordinary white group, even if others don’t think so, I think this is our problem.” Rankin said in the book.
"Just Us" takes us to experience the racism that permeates all aspects of American society, from corporate culture, to classrooms, to the form of hair. The so-called racism is structural, accidental and subtle. But Rankin did not seem to provide us with an effective solution. What she did was appeal, concern, coordination, and desire for practice. While revealing the constraints and entanglements of history and society, the differences between bodies and individuals, Rankin suggested that we make a concerted attempt. American philosopher and feminist Judith Butler praised Rankin for expressing a rare affirmation, despite its potential. Rankin's practice started in the fall of 2016, when she just came to Yale University to teach. She helped Mexicans and linked them to the treatment of Irish, Italians and Asians in the last century. Rankin suffered a lot of failures for this, but also gained little. "The Atlantic Monthly" stated that she was ahead of the times. She spent ten years exploring the century-old question of W·E·B·Du Bois, "How does it feel to be a problem?" Rankin wrote in poetry. The form answered, "The justice of white whites in the daytime/doubles the white dominance/in our way". This country still has a lot to go, Rankin said in an interview with The Guardian.
Why is deconstructing white sex so important? Rankin explained to the “Financial Times”: “White people don’t feel that their own position is a created position. They think this is a meritocracy...not that the entire culture is set up to help them. So they begin to believe that they are normal incarnations. This means that everyone else is in a different position from them, and unless you question them, whenever you raise racial issues, they feel that they have been personally suffered. Attack without understanding that they belong to a group, and this group including all of us has created this hierarchical structure." In an interview with the Paris Review, Rankin said that her family members have a kind of attitude towards everything. curiosity. She recalled her thoughts when she was a child, "So, is this how it works? Is this racism?" Under the circumstances of a different culture and history, she discovered the true nature of the matter, and she has a lot of things for future generations. look forward to. Rankin also believes in the optimism of immigrants. She does not expect white men to come back and praise her criticism of white men. "I try to be responsible for myself, for the process, history and language, and do my best," Rankin said.
Rankin was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the United States with his family. She followed the former American poet laureate, Louise Glück, to study poetry at university. In 2013, Rankin was elected dean of the American Academy of Poets. In 2016, Rankin won the MacArthur Award. She used $625,000 to establish the Racial Imaginary Institute. Its mission is to "search for immortal truths about race: this is an artificially invented concept, but based on Unusually powerful forces affect our lives and limit our activities and imagination.” Rankin is best known for his award-winning Citizen: American Lyrics (Citizen: An American Lyric). This book has received more than 30,000 ratings on the goodreads website. Like many of Rankin's works, "Citizen" explores the racial issues and civic status of contemporary America in the form of prose poems, which can be said to be contemporary "Song of Self".
"The Second Generation" Martin Amis's "Life Writing"
Martin Amis's new work "Inside Story" (Inside Story) is a full-length novel and a memoir. "This book is about my own life, so it doesn't read like a novel," Amis wrote in the preface. "It is more like a compilation of related short stories, with prose-like detours. (Essayistic detours)." "Inside News" is based on the sequel to the autobiographical novel "Life: A Novel" (Life: A Novel) that died about 20 years ago, when he was lying on a beach in Uruguay and realized that The bankruptcy of a novel—"the first death", he said.
Martin Amis at home in Brooklyn. The protagonist of the
novel and Amis’s pseudonym ex-girlfriend Julia (Julia) complained at the beginning that this is a book written by a man, and he continued on his own accord. Amis traced back the illnesses and deaths of Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow , Philip Larkin, Christopher Hitchens and others, who treated him All had a deep impact. Their death allowed Amis to rewrite, or regain his freedom, because for Amis, "fiction is freedom." In the 1970s, Hitchens worked with him in "The New Statesman" (New Statesman), and the two had a drink at noon and had a long conversation. He and his author father were in Soho, drinking grappa and talking a lot of nonsense. And so on. Amis also counted down the anti-Semitism, dentistry, and height of Nabokov and T.S. Eliot he admired. Amis himself often complained about his shortness.
"Fiction is essentially a temporary, rational form-a form of social-realist, as we will see," Amis wrote in the preface. He also proposed the concept of "life-writing". According to him, DH Lawrence, John Updike, Saul Bellow and others are like this, and he extended "life-writing" to the memoir. field. He complained about the higher autobiography of Margaret Duras, Philip Roth and , "Philip Roth’s Zuckerman choked his energy and comedy with a compulsive self-circulation." Through this In this autobiography, Amis joined the team of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Rachel Cusk, and Benjamin Lerner.
Amis has a strong irony style, and he can also express emotions in a melodrama. This seems to stem from the unique anxiety that accompanied Amis throughout his life. In the novel, Amis kept asking, "What are the benefits of this novel? ...what is it for?" What Amis is best at is straightforward. Describe the things that interest or touch him deeply. This is his "life writing"-what does love, poetry, and death bring? Humor, in Amis's pen, seems to be only halfway through, because he is obsessed with parody and obsessed with the past world. In an interview with the "Daily Telegraph" (The Daily Telegraph), Amis gave suggestions for writing a good article, "Pay attention to the rhythm of the sentence, keep repeating it, avoid repeating words or even syllables, and don't use long and short paragraphs. Confusion, avoid clichés." This statement is a bit cliché and a bit outdated.
During the epidemic, Amis lived in Brooklyn, where he had a property in Cobble Hill. As a natural optimist, Amis now does not feel very promising. He told the Guardian reporter: "SpecialI was shocked by the selection of Lampe, but I thought it would be interesting. ...But now it looks...terrible. "
Editor in charge: Zang Jixian
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