(Re-)Thinking Home: 21st-Century Caribbean Diaspora Writing and Geopolitical Imaginaries in North America

（重新）思考家园：21 世纪加勒比侨民写作和北美地缘政治想象

• 批准号: 393947293
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Wilfried Raussert
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Department Anglistik (British and American Studies)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/393947293?language=en
• 关键词: Re; Thinking; Home; 21st; Century

In a world characterized by global capitalism, extreme inequalities, and mass migrations, questions of belonging and home become particularly pressing. The proposed research project explores the (re-)thinking of home in a diversified corpus of 21st-century Anglophone diaspora writing by Caribbean authors of different origins, who reside in the US or Canada. In taking an interdisciplinary approach, which fosters dialogue between the study of literature, the social sciences, as well as cultural studies paradigms of space and mobility, the project aspires to develop innovative insights on the complex issues of home and belonging, their (re)negotiation in contemporary diaspora writing, and in relation to shifting geopolitical imaginaries in North America. Recent Inter-American Studies and Comparative North American Studies/Literature paradigms that view the Americas as mobile and interconnected function as overall analytical framework.The research thesis which is to be investigated can be phrased as follows: 21st- century Caribbean diaspora writers in Canada and the United States employ aesthetic forms of fictional and non-fictional writing to represent the diverse and complex experiences of the multiply dispersed, transmigrant Caribbean diaspora. Their literary texts challenge and (re-)construct mode(l)s of transnational forms of belonging and function as potential productive spaces in which notions of home may be discursively (re-)produced and (re-)negotiated. Central to this investigation will be the interrelated questions of how actors of the Caribbean diaspora mobilize their inherited and/or constructed complex and often contradictory locations and positionings to (re-)think and (re-)write home and how this mobilization is materialized in contemporary works of Caribbean diaspora writers. Other objectives include the critical assessment and development of im/migration-related terminologies such as diaspora and transmigration, as well as of paradigms, or lenses, of translocation and translocational positionality (Anthias 2012) which serve to conceptualize the complex positionings of the diasporic subject. In this way, the project claims that aesthetic artifacts can function to inspire the development of theory. The project further argues that the analysis of home in the chosen writings presents a valuable starting point for the exploration of geopolitical imaginaries on a theoretical level. The project explores the Caribbean, Canada, and the US as connected im/migrant locations. It critically challenges and ventures beyond a reductive North-South divide and enters into an urgently needed dialogue of multiple relations within the Americas. As there exists comparatively little research which takes a practical case-study approach in applying more recent spatio-temporal and socio-spatial terminologies to the study of home in (postcolonial) literatures in the Americas, this research project intends to close an important gap.

在一个以全球资本主义、极端不平等和大规模移民为特征的世界里，归属感和家园问题变得尤为紧迫。这项拟议的研究项目探索了居住在美国或加拿大的不同出身的加勒比海作家在21世纪流亡英语的多元化语料库中对家的(重新)思考。通过采取跨学科的方法，促进文学研究、社会科学以及空间和流动的文化研究范式之间的对话，该项目渴望对家庭和归属感等复杂问题、它们在当代侨民写作中的(重新)谈判以及与北美不断变化的地缘政治想象之间的关系提出创新的见解。最近的美洲研究和比较北美研究/文学范式将美洲视为流动和相互联系的整体分析框架。将被调查的研究论文可以这样表述：加拿大和美国的21世纪加勒比海侨民作家使用虚构和非虚构的审美形式来表现分散的加勒比移民侨民的多样化和复杂的经历。他们的文学文本挑战和(重新)建构了S的跨国归属模式(L)，并成为潜在的生产空间，在这个空间中，家的观念可以被话语(重新)生产和(重新)谈判。这项调查的核心将是加勒比侨民行为者如何动员他们继承和/或构建的复杂和往往相互矛盾的地点和立场来(重新)思考和(重写)家书，以及这种动员如何在加勒比侨民作家的当代作品中实现。其他目标包括严格评估和发展与移民/移民有关的术语，如侨民和移民，以及移位和移位的范例或透镜(安蒂亚斯，2012年)，这些范例或透镜有助于对侨民主题的复杂位置进行概念化。通过这种方式，该项目声称审美文物可以激励理论的发展。该项目进一步认为，对所选作品中的家园的分析为在理论层面上探索地缘政治想象提供了一个宝贵的起点。该项目探索加勒比海、加拿大和美国作为相连的移民/移民地点。它极大地挑战并超越了缩小的南北鸿沟，并进入了美洲内部迫切需要的多重关系对话。由于在美洲的(后殖民)文学中，较新的时空和社会空间术语应用于家的研究中采用实用的案例研究方法的研究相对较少，本研究项目旨在填补这一重要空白。

项目成果

Migration literature

移民文献

• DOI: 10.4324/9781351064705-13
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: The Routledge Handbook to the Culture and Media of the Americas
• 作者: Brandel;Miriam;Luz Angélica Kirschner
• 通讯作者: Luz Angélica Kirschner

Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean: Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics

加勒比地区的抵抗实践：叙事、美学和政治

• DOI: 10.4324/9781315222721
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Brandel;Miriam;Wiebke Beushausen;Joseph Farquharson;Marius Littschwager;Annika McPherson;Julia Roth (Eds.)
• 通讯作者: Julia Roth (Eds.)