Post/colonial travel adventures in pragmatic and fantastic dimensions

该项目旨在探索18世纪至20世纪之间殖民和后殖民背景下的英语旅行叙事，利用冒险写作的比喻和主题，部分重播传统的保留节目，同时也部分重新考虑，重新绘制和重写传统。通过这种方式，我们的旅行文本接触和探索了一种古老的遗产，这种遗产受到压力，在现代，经常受到质疑或忽视。然而，在不同的文化条件下，它的复兴和再利用是非常富有成效的。在确认或对抗结构性暴力和霸权社会规范的过程中，正如在大英帝国文化中所体现的那样，我们研究的探索和旅行的叙述可能会在既定的帝国秩序内移动，也可能会跨越甚至违背其严格的限制，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，我们计划关注两个感兴趣的领域。第一个案例研究对T.E.劳伦斯和J.R.R.托尔金进行了对话式的阅读，他们的共同努力是在牛津的学习基础上，重新演绎或重塑一个男性英雄毅力的世界，充满了中世纪的冒险和强烈的殖民影响。第二个案例研究着眼于克里奥尔冒险，这在18世纪以来的后殖民加勒比写作中得到了证明，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形式。

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.