Literary Geographies of Absence

“缺席的文学地理学”研究项目（2017-18）建立在早期文学地理学领域资助的研究项目的基础上，以最近关于缺席概念的地理学工作为基础，为跨学科的文学/地理研究开辟了新的理论和主题线。项目成员也继续在文学地理学方面的工作，维持了《文学地理学》杂志，并组织了两次文学地理学国际研讨会，均在剑桥大学伊曼纽尔学院举行。在原创性研究方面，在这一轮正在进行的项目中，参与者首先共同建立了一个理论框架，以理解缺席对作者-读者互动、替代读者体验、跨距离参与和同理心的重要性。项目成员还集体讨论了缺席的地理位置与过去的选择性机构记忆之间的联系。与斯旺西大学的同事进行研究合作。麦考瑞大学（英国）（澳大利亚）和联合国。《都灵（意大利）》继续进行。个别地，项目成员制作了一系列与文学地理学中缺席主题相关的会议报告和出版物。这个输出集中在存在和缺席的问题相关的主题，如重大灾害（如2011年的地震和海啸），历史创伤和种族灭绝（如纳粹死亡集中营和军事袭击），萦绕和幽灵的存在（如M.R.詹姆斯的鬼故事和他们的诺托尔克设置），和战争记忆叙事。

The research project ‘Literary Geographies of Absence’ (2017-18) built on earlier funded research projects in the area of literary geography to open up a new theoretical and thematic line of work for interdisciplinary literary/geographical research grounded in recent geographical work on the concept of absence. Project members also continued its work on literary geography generally, maintaining the journal Literary Geographies and organising two international workshops on literary geography, both held at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In terms of original research, for this round of the ongoing project, participants first collectively established a theoretical framework for understanding the significance of absence to author-reader interaction, vicarious reader experience, engagement across distance, and empathy. Project members also discussed collectively the connections between geographies of absence and the selective institutional remembrance of the past. Research collaborations with colleagues at Swansea Uni. (UK), Macquarie Uni. (Australia) and the Uni. of Turin (Italy) were continued. Individually, project members produced a range of conference presentations and publications linked to the theme of absence in literary geography. This output focused on questions of presence and absence in relation to topics such as major disasters (e.g. the 2011 earthquake and tsunami), historical trauma and genocide (e.g. Nazi death camps and military attacks), haunting and ghostly presences (e.g. the ghost stories of M.R. James and their Nortolk settings), and war memory narratives.