Post/colonial travel adventures in pragmatic and fantastic dimensions

务实且奇幻维度的后/殖民旅行冒险

• 批准号: 391760332
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Tobias Döring
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department III - Anglistik und Amerikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/391760332?language=en
• 关键词: Post; colonial; travel; adventures; pragmatic

This project sets out to explore anglophone travel narratives from colonial and postcolonial contexts, between the 18th and the 20th century, which draw on tropes and topoi of adventure writing, partly replaying a traditional repertoire while also partly reconsidering, redrawing and rewriting the tradition. In this way, our travel texts engage with and explore an older legacy that has come under pressure and, in modernity, has frequently been questioned or dismissed. Yet its revival and reuses, under different cultural conditions, turn out to be remarkably productive. In confirming or confronting structural violence and hegemonic social norms, as manifest in the culture of the British Empire, the narratives of quest and travel that we study may either move within the imperial order given or move across, perhaps even against, its strict confines, thus following very different trajectories and using the inherited adventure forms to very different ends. With this in mind, we plan to focus on two areas of interest. The first case study undertakes a dialogic reading of T.E. Lawrence and J.R.R. Tolkien, whose shared endeavour, grounded in Oxonian learning, is to restage or reinvent a world of masculine heroic perseverance, rife with medievalist adventure and full of strong colonial repercussions. The second case study looks at creole adventures, as evinced in postcolonial Caribbean writing since the 18th century, including slave narratives and creole pirate tales, using the adventure modes so as to claim and perform new forms of authority and authorship.

该项目旨在探索18世纪和20世纪之间殖民和后殖民背景下以英语为母语的旅行叙事，这些叙事借鉴了冒险写作的比喻和拓扑，部分重演了传统剧目，同时也部分地重新思考、重新绘制和重写了传统。通过这种方式，我们的旅行文本接触并探索了一项古老的遗产，这项遗产受到了压力，在现代性中经常受到质疑或置之不理。然而，在不同的文化条件下，它的复兴和重复使用被证明是非常富有成效的。在确认或对抗结构性暴力和霸权社会规范时，正如大英帝国文化中所体现的那样，我们研究的关于探险和旅行的叙事要么在给定的帝国秩序内移动，要么跨越甚至违背其严格的界限，从而遵循非常不同的轨迹，并使用继承的冒险形式达到非常不同的目的。考虑到这一点，我们计划将重点放在两个感兴趣的领域。第一个案例研究对T·E·劳伦斯和J·R·R·托尔金进行了对话阅读，他们的共同努力植根于牛津学派，旨在重新上演或重新创造一个充满男子气概、英雄般的毅力、充满中世纪冒险和强烈殖民影响的世界。第二个案例研究着眼于克里奥尔人的冒险，这在18世纪以来的后殖民加勒比海写作中表现出来，包括奴隶叙事和克里奥尔海盗故事，使用冒险模式来主张和执行新的权威和作者身份。