Konzeptionen von Europa in afrikanischen Literaturen seit der Negritude

自黑人以来非洲文学中的欧洲观念

• 批准号: 40915776
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Susan Arndt
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglophone Literaturen
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2006-12-31 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/40915776?language=en
• 关键词: Konzeptionen; von; Europa; afrikanischen; Literaturen

The European expansion and hegemony since 1492 constitutes a profoundly consequential event ¿ both for the history of Europe / the West and that of the nations of the "global South" formerly subjected to European colonial rule. This historically unique process, given its global scope and duration, has had formative influences on the social, political and economic systems, and therefore impacted on the areas of science, culture, literature and philosophy of the formerly colonized societies. To pursue the question of how Africans by means of literary practices and theoretical discourses responded to the European master narrative of modernity, civilisation and progress to legitimize colonialism and racism, will open up a so far negated perspective on Europe and raise awareness for the entangled (his)stories of the two continents. My research interest goes beyond a simple revision of the perspective that views Africans and people of African descent in Europe merely as colonized or discriminated passive participants of European modernity: The gaze onto Europe through the prism of African and African-diasporic authors and theorists also allows for a view of the various forms and interpretations of modernity which originated in Africa and its diasporas themselves, and how these have contributed to modernity in Europe.

自1492年以来，欧洲的扩张和霸权对欧洲/西方和以前受欧洲殖民统治的“全球南方”国家的历史都是一个深远的影响事件。鉴于其全球范围和持续时间，这一独特的历史进程对社会、政治和经济制度产生了重大影响，因此对前殖民社会的科学、文化、文学和哲学领域产生了影响。追问非洲人如何通过文学实践和理论话语回应欧洲关于现代性、文明和进步的大师叙事，使殖民主义和种族主义合法化，将打开对欧洲迄今被否定的视角，并提高人们对这两个大陆错综复杂的(他的)故事的认识。我的研究兴趣不仅仅是对这样一种观点的简单修正，即把欧洲的非洲人和非洲人后裔仅仅视为欧洲现代性的殖民者或受歧视的被动参与者：通过非洲和散居海外的非洲作家和理论家的棱镜凝视欧洲，也允许我们看到起源于非洲及其散居国外的现代性的各种形式和解释，以及这些如何促进欧洲的现代性。