Noir Affect in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City

被引：0

作者：

Borbely, Carmen ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Babes Bolyai Univ, Cluj Napoca, Romania

来源：

CAIETELE ECHINOX | 2022年 / 43卷

关键词：

Noir Affect; Crime Fiction; Muti Noir; Lauren Beukes; Cruel Optimism;

D O I：

10.24193/cechinox.2022.43.16

中图分类号：

C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

Taking its cue from Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker's rethinking of noir affect as a descriptor of detective fiction, this paper contributes to the discussion of South African writer Lauren Beukes's Zoo City as a narrative that both harnesses and fluidifies the generic conventions of the crime thriller. Pondering Beukes's claim that her story may become the site for the transmutation or transmission of ethically adjusted emotion, the paper resorts to Lauren Berlant's thoughts on detective fiction as a genre condensing the "cruel optimism" of the ordinary, rather than the evental, present to explore the clues of affectional attunement in Lauren Beukes's postapartheid novel.

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页码：246 / 261

页数：16

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