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1、ResistingDisplacementinBernardineEvaristo’sTheEmperor’sBabeNancyCaroniaain’tnoonenevergonnawriteaboutyourlifebutyou.Onceyou’redead,youneverexisted,baby,sogettoit.VenustoZuleikainTheEmperor’sBabe1BernardineEvaristo’sTheEmperor’sBabe(2000)isaliteralandliter-aryremappingofLondo
2、n.SetinAD210inaictionalizedversionofRomanLondinium,Evaristo’sideaforthenovelemergedaftershereadPeterFryer’sassertionthata“[black]presence…[inEngland]goesbacksome2000years.”2,3NotingthattheEnglishlandscapehas“alwaysbeen…mixedraciallyandculturally,”Evaristopredateshernovelmore
3、thanamillenniumbeforeBritishcolonization.4,5Londinium’sglobalpopulationisdrawnfromtheRomanEmpire,which“stretched…over9000kilometersintoAfricaandAsia,”andthosewhocolonizethemetropolisenslaveBritannia’sindigenouspeople.6Zuleika,theblackfemaleprotagonistchartingthismulticultura
4、llandscape,immigratestoLondiniumasachildwithherparents,for-merslavestotheKingofMeroe.7HercharacteristheestablishmentofN.Caronia(*)EnglishDepartment,WestVirginiaUniversity,Morgantown,WV,USA©TheAuthor(s)201719C.A.BrownandJ.X.K.Garvey(eds.),MadnessinBlackWomen’sDiasporicFiction
5、s,GenderandCulturalStudiesinAfricaandtheDiaspora,DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58127-9_220N.CARONIAblacklifeonBritishsoilwellbeforeanyconsanguineouspresencetoapresent-daywhiteEnglishpopulation.Zuleika’smappingofLondiniumeraseshomogeneousdepictionsofthecity,especiallythe“reignof‘CoolB
6、ritannia,’when[newlyelectedPrimeMinister]TonyBlair’sNewLaborPartyrebrandedLondonastheglobalcapitalofcoolness.”8TheNewLaborParty’sviewreinforcedawhitenostalgicimaginaryofimperialismwherecoolnesswascastasaby-productofcolonialistexpansionism.Zuleika’snarrativeacuitypushesagains
7、tthisconstructionthroughanunsentimentalbrandoflinguisticcool.SheinterspersesLatinandanach-ronisticreferencestoLondonattheMillenniumtosubvertthecou-pletformofRomanepicandRomanticpoetry—genresthatelevatetheheroic.Sheignorestheverseascribedtogods,warriors,orartistsinfavorofthes
8、langspokenbyamerchant-classblackfemalesubject.Atonceadiary,amemoir,andacult
