Narratives of Scottish Settler Colonialism in Nova Scotia: Re-examining Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Works

新斯科舍省苏格兰定居者殖民主义的叙述：重新审视托马斯·钱德勒·哈利伯顿的作品

• 批准号: 420587684
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Kirsten Sandrock
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Halifax
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/420587684?language=en
• 关键词: Narratives; Scottish; Settler; Colonialism; Nova

My project is situated at the interface of Canadian literature and history studies. It shows that literary narratives about Scottish settler colonialism in Nova Scotia have had a greater effect on Atlantic Canada than previous studies have shown. Whereas most studies on the topic focus on images of Scottishness in Nova Scotia in the twentieth century, the present project investigates the works of nineteenth-century author, judge and historian Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865), Canada's first internationally acclaimed author. Not only did Haliburton actively investigate his ancient Scottish ancestry and wrote about it, but his works include a variety of narratives of Scottish settlers in Nova Scotia, which helped to establish Scots as trademark colonists of the region. Since Haliburton's works were widely popular in Canada, the USA and in Great Britain in his time, it can be assumed that his publications helped to spread narratives of Scottish settler colonialism in the nineteenth-century British Atlantic. Hitherto no study of this interconnection between literature and colonial history in Haliburton's oeuvre exists. During my research stay at St. Mary's University, I will sight a number of unpublished documents because there is strong evidence in secondary sources that they include further material on Scots in general and Scottish settlers in Nova Scotia in particular, which have not been systematically studied. These documents include Haliburton's autobiographical writings as well as early editions of his works. The two archives where the documents are housed are the Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, and the Haliburton Collection, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. On a theoretical level, the project contributes to the field of critical empire studies by exploring a form of 'minor' colonialism in Atlantic Canada that has had, however, long-term effects on the region. It asks about the role literary texts played in the colonial power dynamics of the nineteenth-century British Atlantic. My study also promotes a reconsideration of established terms such as colonizer and colonized, which are under-complex as concepts when trying to come to terms with Scotland's colonial history. The project expands on my recently finished study on Scottish colonialism in the seventeenth century, which includes a chapter on Nova Scotia in the 1620s. The manuscript of the previous study is currently under review with Edinburgh University Press, and it has successfully passed the first stage of review. At St. Mary's University, I would work together with three experts in the field of Nova Scotia literature and history (Prof. Karly Kehoe, Prof. Alexander MacLeod, Prof. John Reid), who know my research proposal and endorse it. Prof. Kehoe is also interested in a long-term cooperation with me. The findings of my study will be published in a collection, edited by Prof. Karly Kehoe (see below), which is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.

我的项目位于加拿大文学和历史研究的交界处。它表明，关于新斯科舍省苏格兰殖民者殖民主义的文学叙事对大西洋加拿大的影响比之前的研究显示的更大。虽然大多数关于这一主题的研究都集中在20世纪新斯科舍省的苏格兰形象上，但本项目调查的是加拿大第一位享誉国际的作家、法官和历史学家托马斯·钱德勒·哈利伯顿(Thomas Chandler Haliburton，1796-1865)的作品。哈里伯顿不仅积极调查并记录了他的古代苏格兰血统，而且他的作品还包括对新斯科舍省苏格兰殖民者的各种叙事，这有助于将苏格兰人确立为该地区标志性的殖民者。由于哈里伯顿的作品在他那个时代的加拿大、美国和英国都很受欢迎，可以想见，他的出版物帮助传播了19世纪英属大西洋苏格兰殖民者殖民主义的叙事。到目前为止，还没有关于哈利伯顿作品中文学和殖民史之间的这种相互联系的研究。在圣玛丽大学做研究期间，我将看到一些未出版的文件，因为二手资料中有强有力的证据表明，这些文件包含了更多关于苏格兰人，特别是新斯科舍省的苏格兰定居者的材料，这些材料还没有得到系统的研究。这些文件包括哈利伯顿的自传体作品以及他作品的早期版本。存放这些文件的两个档案馆是哈利法克斯的新斯科舍省档案馆和新斯科舍省沃尔夫维尔阿卡迪亚大学的哈利伯顿收藏馆。在理论层面上，该项目通过探索大西洋加拿大的一种“小”殖民主义形式，对该地区产生了长期影响，从而为批判性帝国研究领域做出了贡献。它询问文学文本在19世纪英国大西洋殖民权力动态中所扮演的角色。我的研究还促进了对诸如殖民者和殖民者等既定术语的重新考虑，当试图与苏格兰的殖民史达成妥协时，这些概念并不复杂。该项目对我最近完成的关于17世纪苏格兰殖民主义的研究进行了扩展，其中包括一章关于17世纪新斯科舍省的研究。前一项研究的手稿目前正在与爱丁堡大学出版社进行审查，并已顺利通过第一阶段审查。在圣玛丽大学，我将与新斯科舍省文学和历史领域的三位专家(卡莉·凯霍教授、亚历山大·麦克劳德教授和约翰·里德教授)合作，他们知道我的研究建议并予以支持。Kehoe教授也有兴趣与我进行长期合作。我的研究结果将发表在一本由卡莉·凯霍教授(见下文)编辑的合集中，该合集与爱丁堡大学出版社签订了合同。