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Animal-Man-Power: Shape-shifting fictions and political transformation

兽人力量：变形小说和政治转型

基本信息

批准号：
329051450
负责人：
Privatdozentin Dr. Jing Xuan
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Sinologie
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2016-12-31 至 2019-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/329051450?language=en
关键词：
Animal Man Power Shape shifting

项目摘要

The project explores the animal human relationship as a configuration that generates political fictions. Focusing on the motif of shape-shifting, it studies the narratives of animal/human metamorphosis in relation to the problem of sovereignty. The general hypothesis is that fantasies of species transformation are imaginary expressions of the political transition from an old to a new form of sovereignty. The key task of the research will be to show how literary and later cinematographic imaginations of animal/human conjunction change according to the three crucial phases in the Western history of sovereignty: the emergence of monarchical sovereignty in the 12th century, the foundation of popular sovereignty in the 19th century, and the new challenges to democracy in the age of globalization.Connecting the question of animal/human relationships with the problem of sovereignty, the proposal addresses two key issues on the cultural and political agenda of our time. Previous literary studies on animal subjects have considered the political aspects in a limited way, by setting up a monolingual textual corpus and addressing a single historical period. This project, on the contrary, chooses a comparative and diachronic approach. It covers different national literatures in a broad historical scope from the High Middle Ages to the modern and postmodern eras. From this comprehensive perspective, the research has a dual aim: 1. to trace the literary tradition in which shape shifting fiction functions to create and legitimate sovereign power; 2. to broach the topic of political culture for a critical revision of current animal theory. In both cases, the proposal will not only fertilize the current debate on animal matters, but also shed new light on the political significance of the animal/human binary.

该项目探索了动物与人之间的关系，作为一种产生政治虚构的配置。它围绕变形母题，研究了与主权问题有关的动物/人的蜕变叙事。普遍的假设是，对物种转变的幻想是从旧的主权形式向新的主权形式的政治过渡的想象表达。这项研究的主要任务将是展示文学和后来的电影对动物/人类联系的想象是如何根据西方主权历史的三个关键阶段发生变化的：12世纪君主制主权的出现，19世纪人民主权的建立，以及全球化时代对民主的新挑战。将动物/人类关系问题与主权问题联系起来，该提案解决了我们这个时代文化和政治议程上的两个关键问题。以往关于动物题材的文学研究都是通过建立单语文本语料库和处理单一的历史时期来有限地考虑政治方面。相反，这个项目选择了一种比较和历时的方法。它涵盖了从中世纪晚期到现代和后现代时代的广泛历史范围内的不同民族文学。从这个综合的角度来看，这项研究具有双重目的：1.追溯塑造转变小说功能以创造合法主权的文学传统；2.提出政治文化话题，对当前的动物理论进行批判性修改。在这两种情况下，这项提议不仅将丰富目前关于动物问题的辩论，还将为动物/人类二元论的政治意义提供新的线索。