Emergent Remembering II. Saying the Unsayable

紧急记忆II。

• 批准号: 391351163
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stefan Pfänder
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Romanisches Seminar
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391351163?language=en
• 关键词: Emergent; Remembering; II.; Saying; Unsayable

This proposal continues the SNF/DFG-funded research project Emergent Remembering. Fragmented Syntax and Textual Production in Contemporary Literature and Oral History (Emergentes Erinnern. Fragmentierte Syntax und textuelle Herstellung in Gegenwartsliteratur und Oral History) with a new point of focus. The project group, consisting of literary scholars from Zurich and linguists from Freiburg, previously conducted a comparative investigation of the production of autobiographical memories in literature and interviews, on the basis of memory narratives in French, but also in Italian and German, that focus on the period of World War II. The collaboration between literary and linguistic researchers proved highly fruitful. Hence, building on the achievements of the first project, as documented in thirteen articles and two books (PhD theses), we will now move on to examine more generally emergent remembering in literary and oral history memory narratives from the perspective of the unsayable. For the continuation of the project, we thus start from a fundamental challenge of text production that lies in the (un)sayability of the extreme experiences of violence suffered in war, forced labour, deportation, and concentration camp internment. We ask how narrators of eyewitness interviews and literary narratives can master the challenge of telling the unsayable and making it present, by creating specific forms of recipient design. This has not been done before, especially considering that our various corpora have not been compared previously. Our preliminary work has shown that there are certain techniques for coping with the challenge of unsayability which are applied in both corpora. For the joint project work, we will focus on three of these techniques: (1) the explicit naming of the unsayability of the experience, (2) the choice of only one salient aspect of the narrated situation, which as a pars pro toto makes the experience comprehensible, and (3) the evocation and presentification of a situation, which is not reported but re-enacted through a textual accumulation of sensory experiences or by the oral narrator’s body language. The research goal is twofold: on the one hand, we will work out how the very diverse medial conditions of reception and production shape the narrative techniques; on the other hand, we will show that despite these medial differences, one factor remains constant: the inclusion of the recipient.

该提案延续了SNF/DFG资助的研究项目“涌现记忆”。《当代文学和口述历史中的碎片化写作和文本生产》（Emergentes Erinnern）。在Gegenwartsliteratur和口述历史中的碎片和文本Herstellung）与一个新的焦点。该项目组由来自苏黎世的文学学者和来自弗赖堡的语言学家组成，他们之前对文学和访谈中自传体记忆的产生进行了比较研究，以法语、意大利语和德语的记忆叙事为基础，重点关注第二次世界大战时期。文学和语言研究者之间的合作证明是卓有成效的。因此，在第一个项目的成就的基础上，正如13篇文章和两本书（博士论文）所记录的那样，我们现在将从不可说的角度来研究文学和口述历史记忆叙述中更普遍的涌现记忆。为了继续这个项目，我们从文本生产的一个根本挑战开始，这个挑战在于战争、强迫劳动、驱逐出境和集中营拘留中遭受的极端暴力经历的（非）可说性。我们问目击者访谈和文学叙事的叙述者如何通过创造特定形式的接受者设计来掌握讲述不可说的东西并使其呈现的挑战。这是以前没有做过的，特别是考虑到我们的各种语料库以前没有比较过。我们的初步工作表明，有一定的技术来应对这两个语料库中应用的不可说性的挑战。对于联合项目工作，我们将重点关注其中三种技术：（1）对经验的不可言说性的明确命名，（2）只选择叙述情境的一个突出方面，这作为一个部分使经验变得可理解，（3）情境的唤起和呈现，这不是报告，而是通过文本的感官经验的积累或口头叙述者的身体语言重新制定。研究目标有两个方面：一方面，我们将研究不同的媒介接受和生产条件如何塑造叙事技巧; 2另一方面，我们将表明，尽管存在这些媒介差异，但有一个因素是不变的：接受者的参与。