Queer Theory in Transit: Reception, Translation, and Production of Queer Theory in Polish and German Contexts

酷儿理论的转变：波兰和德国背景下酷儿理论的接受、翻译和产生

• 批准号: 504643526
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Eveline Kilian
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/504643526?language=en
• 关键词: Queer; Theory; Transit; Reception; Translation

Queer Theory in Transit is dedicated to queer theory in the humanities, with an emphasis on cultural and literary studies. Since the 1990s, critiques of heteronormativity and queer theory production in the US have been instrumental in forming and formulating queer theoretical approaches in various academic disciplines in Europe to a point that locally produced concepts and antecedents were often ignored. This project focuses on Polish and German translations and receptions of, as well as contributions to queer theory. It addresses and makes productive the tension between the origins of this body of theory in US-American academia and its subsequent reception, adaptation and appropriation in very different geographical, political and cultural contexts. It takes the example of Poland and Germany to trace and compare the key processes of adoption, modification and resistance governed by the historical specificities in these two countries. This includes a closer inspection of the ways US-American perspectives and knowledge production have been linked to and integrated in local theoretical traditions and how they have affected the ongoing local production of queer theory as it emerges in response to local discussions and issues. This research set-up will firstly allow us to stress interconnections and divergences between these two European countries and, secondly, to develop a critical perspective on US-American cultural hegemony that historically has been viewed very differently in Poland and Germany and that in recent times has more generally become a debated issue with changing political landscapes in Europe and in a more global framework. The project calls on Edward Said’s discussion of traveling theory, which strongly emphasizes the importance of local contexts in formulating and applying theoretical concepts. Germany and Poland have had a robust exchange in the realm of queer theory for almost two decades, holding joint conferences and issuing publications since the early 2000s. And this intercultural and academic dialogue extends much further into the past if queer theory is understood to include critical and literary antecedents that date back to Modernism and beyond (e.g. in the area of sexology). Since the formulation of queer theory as a field in the late 1980s and its transit to Germany and to Poland in the 1990s and 2000s, it has become possible to identify those antecedents in the light of current theoretical formulations. Moreover, the rapid uptake of queer theory in the two countries invites a comparative analysis of the translations and local work in the field. Queer Theory in Transit will contribute to the ongoing debate about knowledge production in a globalizing context and critically examine the dominance of cultural concepts emanating from the US.

《过渡中的酷儿理论》致力于人文科学中的酷儿理论，侧重于文化和文学研究。自20世纪90年代以来，美国对异正规性和酷儿理论生产的批评在欧洲各学科形成和形成奇特的理论方法方面起到了重要作用，以至于当地产生的概念和前件往往被忽视。该项目侧重于波兰语和德语对酷儿理论的翻译和接受，以及对酷儿理论的贡献。它解决了这一理论体系在美国-美国学术界的起源与随后在非常不同的地理、政治和文化背景下的接受、改编和挪用之间的紧张关系，并使之富有成效。它以波兰和德国为例，追踪和比较了这两个国家的历史特殊性所支配的采用、修改和抵制的关键过程。这包括更仔细地检查美美观点和知识生产与当地理论传统的联系和整合方式，以及它们如何影响酷儿理论在回应当地讨论和问题时正在进行的当地生产。这一研究机构将首先让我们强调这两个欧洲国家之间的相互联系和分歧，其次，发展对美美文化霸权的批判性视角。历史上，波兰和德国对美美文化霸权的看法截然不同，近年来，随着欧洲政治格局的变化和更全球化的框架，美美文化霸权已成为一个更普遍的辩论问题。该项目需要爱德华·赛义德对旅行理论的讨论，该理论强烈强调了地方背景在制定和应用理论概念方面的重要性。近20年来，德国和波兰在酷儿理论领域进行了强有力的交流，自21世纪初以来，两国举行了联合会议，并出版了出版物。这种跨文化和学术对话延伸到更远的过去，如果酷儿理论被理解为包括可以追溯到现代主义和更远的(例如，在性学领域)的批评和文学先例。自从20世纪80年代末酷儿理论作为一个领域被提出，并在20世纪90年代和21世纪头10年转移到德国和波兰以来，根据目前的理论公式已经有可能识别这些先行因素。此外，酷儿理论在两国的迅速普及促使人们对翻译和该领域的本地工作进行对比分析。过渡中的酷儿理论将有助于正在进行的关于全球化背景下知识生产的辩论，并批判性地审视源自美国的文化概念的主导地位。