一首超越死亡的歌——川端康成的《抒情歌》的世界

新感觉派运动从文坛消失之后,无论是日本文坛还是川端康成个人都迎来了一个黑暗的时代。在这样的一个低谷时期,川端在1932年发表的《抒情歌》中构筑了一个唯美的、纯粹的、童话般的死后的世界。这在一个既找不到生存的意义也找不到文学的意义的时代,可以说意义深远。这是川端的东方之歌,是川端在那个年代的超越死亡之歌。     

Geographies of migration and relatedness: transmigrancy in open transnational adoptive parenting

Current transnational adoptive parenting is characterized by ambiguous practices of (1) discursively distancing adoptive children from immigrants, while (2) symbolically or actually reconnecting newly constituted families to children's birth countries through charity and culture work. This ambiguity reveals the ubiquity of contradictory and essentialist understandings of categories of familial and national belonging. However, adoptive parents’ strategies for accommodating their children's sense of belonging may also open up space for rethinking care and family building in transnational contexts. Using the case of a Belgian family who adopted a 12-year-old girl from Ethiopia, decided to maintain strong connections with the child's biological family, engage in charity work in Ethiopia and forge strong ties with immigrant communities in Belgium, the article explores how the concept of ‘transmigration’ may further our understanding of identity configurations within adoptive families. Furthermore, this particular case of ‘open’ transnational adoptive parenting testifies to adoptive parents’ efforts to escape from essentialist and exclusionary frameworks and create counter-spaces of multiplicity and transmigrancy in a context of severe social and economic inequality.