Self-Reflexive/Self-Confident Narratives: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary US-American Culture

自我反思/自信的叙事：当代美国文化中的文本性和社会相关性

• 批准号: 222302976
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Katja Kanzler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Amerikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-31 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/222302976?language=en
• 关键词: Self; Reflexive; Confident; Narratives; Textuality

In the course of the last three years, this project has explored milblogs, weblogs written by soldiers during deployment to the war zone, as a corpus of self-confident / self-reflexive narratives - as a corpus, that is, whose formal dynamics and cultural work are predicated on an interplay of self-confidence and self-reflexivity that enables the blogs to contribute to contemporary social engagements with war and war experience. Drawing on a comparative cultural studies approach that correlates milblogs to Indigenous warrior cultures, we theorized milblogs as a practice of ceremonial storytelling which, by performing and simultaneously reflecting on ritual communicative patterns, can do socially therapeutic work. Our research has shown that is vital to complement the project by paying attention to narrative practices that are closely related to milblogs yet unfold outside the genre's parameters: ritual scripts about the return of veterans into civil society, scripts hosted by a variety of media and modes, that we call the "Homecoming Scenario." Iterated in diverse textual and performative formats, the "Homecoming Scenario" shares with milblogs its recourse to rituals of ceremonial storytelling. Moreover, it has a sequential relationship to milblogs, immediately attending to the moment of return to civilian life that milblogs prospectively anticipate. Parts of an overarching phenomenon, milblogs and instances of the "Homecoming Scenario" thus need to be interrogated together as expressions of a characteristic cultural mode by which contemporary US society engages with war experience and negotiates the relationship between military and civil society. Research on selected forms of the "Homecoming Scenario" is to be integrated with the research on milblogs conducted so far by focusing on the ways in which it throws into relief the media-specific properties of ceremonial storytelling about war experience and the temporality effects (temporal relationship between the experience of war or of homecoming and its mediation in storytelling) that inform it.

在过去的三年中，这个项目探讨了milblogs，在部署到战区的士兵写的博客，作为一个语料库的自信/自我反思的叙述-作为一个语料库，也就是说，其正式的动态和文化工作是基于自信和自我反思的相互作用，使博客有助于当代社会参与战争和战争经验。借鉴比较文化研究的方法，将milblogs与土著战士文化相关联，我们将milblogs理论化为仪式讲故事的实践，通过表演和同时反思仪式的交流模式，可以做社会治疗工作。我们的研究表明，通过关注与milblogs密切相关但在体裁参数之外展开的叙事实践来补充该项目至关重要：关于退伍军人回归公民社会的仪式脚本，由各种媒体和模式主持的脚本，我们称之为“回家的场景”。在不同的文本和表演格式迭代，“回家的场景”与milblogs分享其诉诸仪式讲故事的仪式。此外，它与milblogs有着连续的关系，立即关注milblogs预期的回归平民生活的时刻。因此，作为一个总体现象的一部分，milblogs和“返乡情景”的实例需要一起被审问，作为一种典型的文化模式的表达，当代美国社会通过这种文化模式参与战争经验，并谈判军事和公民社会之间的关系。对选定形式的“返乡情景”的研究将与迄今为止对milblogs进行的研究相结合，重点关注它如何将有关战争经历的仪式性故事讲述的媒体特定属性和告知它的时间性效应（战争或返乡经历及其在故事讲述中的中介之间的时间关系）。