Entangled Island Times. A history of literature and knowledge of the Islandbiogeography between 1600 and 1850

纠结岛时代。

• 批准号: 320010664
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Roland Borgards
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Deutsche Literatur und ihre Didaktik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/320010664?language=en
• 关键词: Entangled; Island; Times.; history; literature

The project examines which different distinct time forms feature in the investigation of islands. From a systematic perspective, it is especially interested in the tension between a nature-time (with its two variants of a geological and a biological time) and a culture-time (with its two variants of a European-Western conception of time and an ethnologically foreign conception of time). It aims at criticizing these conceptions of time with regard to their implicit anthropocentrism and confronting them with the new-materialistic concept of an entangled time. On the basis of this theoretical redetermination of a material temporality, the project focuses historically on the era between 1600 and 1850, that means the years before, during and after the time-theoretical turn in the late 18th century. The projects subject foci are tropical and South Sea Islands, for which in the first contact between Europeans and islanders there are particularly sharp contrasts concerning the cultural conception of time. With regard to disciplinarity, the project has its center in literary studies and from this standpoint considers the aesthetics of a material distinct temporality; in addition it also integrates constitutively ethnological questions as well as scientific perspectives of the islandbiogeography, especially animal ecology and climatology. Accordingly, the corpus to be analyzed consists of literary, documentary, ethnographic, zoological and geographic European texts about islands from the years between 1600 and 1850. It will be examined to what extent these texts implicitly or explicitly negotiate phenomena of time, to what extent they feature the tension between different time forms, where covert traces of a distinctive cultural-indigenous time can be found which defy the European regime of time, and finally how the different temporalities become intertwined as part of the progressing globalization of trade and the related networking of islands, so that something like an Entangled Island Time evolves as a historical phenomenon. Out of this, the question emerges to what extent the island-times of the colonializing Europeans change as part of the time-theoretical turn of the late 18th century and how vice versa the colonial island-times have contributed to the development of our modern conception of time and which role aesthetic procedures play in this process, which can be found as much in natural-historic and ethnographic accounts of islands as in literalized travelogues and fictional island narratives.

该项目研究了岛屿调查中哪些不同的独特时间形式。从系统的角度来看，它特别感兴趣的是自然时间（地质和生物时间的两种变体）和文化时间（欧洲-西方时间概念和民族学外国时间概念的两种变体）之间的紧张关系。它旨在批判这些时间观念中隐含的非中心主义，并以新唯物主义的纠缠时间观念来对抗它们。基于这种对物质时间性的理论重新界定，该项目在历史上关注1600年至1850年之间的时代，即18世纪后期时间理论转向之前、期间和之后的几年。该项目的主题重点是热带和南海岛屿，在欧洲人和岛民之间的第一次接触中，关于时间的文化概念存在特别鲜明的对比。关于学科性，该项目以文学研究为中心，并从这个角度考虑材料的美学独特的时间性;此外，它还整合了民族学问题以及岛屿地理学的科学观点，特别是动物生态学和气候学。因此，要分析的语料库包括1600年至1850年期间有关岛屿的文学，纪录片，民族志，动物学和地理学欧洲文本。它将研究这些文本在多大程度上含蓄或明确地协商时间现象，在多大程度上体现了不同时间形式之间的紧张关系，在哪里可以找到一种独特的文化-本土时间的隐蔽痕迹，而这种独特的文化-本土时间无视欧洲的时间制度，最后，不同的时间性是如何交织在一起，成为贸易全球化和岛屿网络化的一部分，所以像纠缠岛时间这样的东西就演变成了一种历史现象。由此产生的问题是，作为世纪后期时间理论转向的一部分，殖民欧洲人的岛屿时代在多大程度上发生了变化，反之亦然，殖民岛屿时代如何促进了我们现代时间观念的发展，以及审美程序在这一过程中发挥了什么作用，这可以在自然历史和民族志中找到，也可以在文学化的游记和虚构的岛屿叙事中找到。