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Narrating Migration: The Experience of Migration in Contemporary British Prose Fiction

叙事移民：当代英国散文小说中的移民经历

基本信息

批准号：
253899846
负责人：
Professor Dr. Ralf Schneider
金额：
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依托单位：
Lehrstuhl Anglistische Literaturwissenschaft
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2013-12-31 至 2016-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/253899846?language=en
关键词：
Narrating Migration Experience Contemporary British

项目摘要

This project investigates the literary portrayal of experiences of migration in British prose fiction since World War II. Drawing on basic narratological text analysis as well as the sociological concept of transnational social spaces (Thomas Faist), the project will analyse novels and short stories with regard to their narrative techniques and cultural functions. Building on a broad understanding of migration as a process of spacial relocation of the place of residence, which involves transgressing socio-political and cultural borders (Ingrid Oswald), the project is organised on several interconnected levels of investigation. Firstly, we will examine which aspects and phases of migration phenomena are expressed in the texts at hand and which patterns and topics the corpus contains as a whole. Secondly, the narratological stratagies by which the texts represent the characters' experienced reality of migration will be at the centre of investigation. Thirdly, in the context of our theme-based and narratological assessment, our particular interest lies in the specific literary representation and evocation of transnational social spaces. The sociological term "transnational social spaces" denominates the various material, personal, symbolical and cultural ties established by migrants between their receiving country and their country of origin. Based on this concept, the central hypothesis of the project states that migration literature creates mental spaces in which the experienced realities of migrants is revealed to be, and imagined as, interconnected with other countries and cultures. In presenting the life and experiences of migrant characters, the novels and short stories evoke a connection between Great Britain and other realms of the world in the shape of lived and imagined cognitive-emotional relations with different characteristics and evaluations. The function of these transnational conceptual spaces within the literary presentation of migration experiences and their discursive negotiation in British society is still widely under-researched in English literary migration studies. Previous research focused primarily on post-colonial theory, as well as texts and contexts concerned with migrants (and their descendants) from Commonwealth countries. It paid special attention to racism, social dislocation and hybrid identities. Within the project proposed here, novels and short stories featuring characters coming from non-Commonwealth countries and authors without migration experience will be included. The innovative contribution of this project to research on English migration literature thus consists in broadening the scope of study compared to previous research, but also in the thematic and the conceptual expansion of the subject matter.

这个项目调查了二战以来英国散文小说中移民经历的文学描绘。该项目将利用基本的叙事学文本分析以及跨国社会空间的社会学概念(托马斯·费斯特)，分析长篇小说和短篇小说的叙事技巧和文化功能。基于对移徙作为居住地空间迁移过程的广泛理解，这涉及跨越社会-政治和文化边界(英格丽德·奥斯瓦尔德)，该项目是在几个相互关联的调查层面上组织的。首先，我们将考察在手头的文本中表达了迁移现象的哪些方面和阶段，以及语料库作为一个整体包含了哪些模式和主题。其次，文本用来表现人物经历的移民现实的叙事策略将成为调查的中心。第三，在我们的主题和叙事学评估的背景下，我们特别感兴趣的是跨国社会空间的具体文学表现和召唤。社会学术语“跨国社会空间”是指移民在其接受国和原籍国之间建立的各种物质、个人、象征性和文化联系。基于这一概念，该项目的中心假设指出，移民文学创造了精神空间，移民的经历现实被揭示出来，并被想象为与其他国家和文化相互联系。在呈现移民人物的生活和经历时，小说和短篇小说以生活和想象的认知-情感关系的形式唤起了英国与世界其他领域的联系，这些关系具有不同的特点和评价。这些跨国概念空间在移民经历的文学呈现中的作用及其在英国社会中的话语谈判在英国文学移民研究中仍然是一个普遍不足的研究领域。以前的研究主要集中在后殖民理论，以及与来自英联邦国家的移民(及其后代)有关的文本和背景。它特别注意种族主义、社会错位和混血特性。在这里提出的项目中，将包括以来自非英联邦国家的人物和没有移民经验的作家为特色的小说和短篇小说。因此，该项目对英国移民文学研究的创新贡献不仅在于与以前的研究相比拓宽了研究范围，而且还在于主题和概念的扩展。