Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial Era

超越线性叙事：后殖民时代写作和表演中的断裂叙事

• 批准号: AH/F019629/1
• 负责人: Robert Gordon
• 金额: $ 51.35万
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF019629%2F1
• 关键词: Beyond; Linear; Narrative; Fractured; Narratives

Taking Pinter's work as a starting point for, or symbol of, the fracturing of narrative across many art-forms in twentieth and twenty-first century work, this research project will ask a series of questions about the links between inter-cultural and political change and the emergence, or re-emergence, of non-linear and fractured narrative. Focussing on literature and performance, particularly in postcolonial and diasporic contexts, it will ask why non-linear narrative has been such a feature of this period's artistic production. If these fractured and experimental forms are a response to the breakdown of the west's grand narratives of progress, what forms of resistance or revision do they provide? In what ways can they be seen to emerge from the increasing interaction of different cultures in the colonial, post-colonial and post-Cold War world? How do such fractured narratives work in postcolonial and diasporic writing and performance? How can these fractured forms explore our culturally diverse society's competing and conflicting narratives? The project will also ask in what ways changing understandings of the self have contributed to the disruption of linear narrative, and in particular, how fractured narratives enable the move away from the Cartesian mind/body duality to an understanding of the embodied self, making the writing of the body such an important element in contemporary performance, fiction and life-writing. In addition, if non-linear narratives emerge from the destabilising of traditional hierarchies of power, what are the implications for issues of gender and sexuality in writing and performance? The project will not assume the distinct identity of traditional 'literary' genres, but will ask these questions of all forms of literature and performance as a continuum of work. Up till now, most investigations of non-linear narrative have been limited to its digital development, seeing it in terms of technological change. While being alert to this research and its implications, the emphasis of this project is different, centring as it does on the relation between fractured narratives and cultural change in the late colonial and post-colonial period, and on intercultural and diasporic exchange in contemporary art practices. Our project is in no way formalistic: rather it will ask what profound social, political and conceptual changes are being mapped in these artistic practices, addressing questions fundamental to an understanding of the role the arts play in negotiating social change in today's culturally diverse society. The project will have in-depth studies of three areas: African/African diasporic performance, Caribbean/Caribbean diasporic life writing, and gender and sexuality in contemporary British diasporic writing and performance. The research methods employed will be varied, combining traditional academic means, such as conferences and seminars, with creative practice, plays, performances, readings, musical events, film, video and digital arts. Two doctoral students will be attached to the project, one working on African performance, the other in Caribbean life writing; there will be two artists-in-residence, each for three months. Goldsmiths' strengths in creative writing and innovative performance, in critical creative practice, community arts, urban studies and postcolonial theory, as well as its strong tradition of interdisciplinary research, make it an ideal place for this project. Dissemination will take a variety of forms, through conferences, seminars and creative events, as well as book and journal publication, and the videoing and archiving of events and performances. The outcomes of our research will be of interest both to scholars and to creative artists. It will contribute to the understanding of postcolonial and diasporic literature and performance, their evolution and development, and to the assessment of the nature and impact of contemporary creative practices.

将品特的作品作为20世纪和21世纪作品中许多艺术形式的叙事断裂的起点或象征，本研究项目将提出一系列关于跨文化和政治变革与非线性和断裂叙事的出现或重新出现之间的联系的问题。关注文学和表演，特别是在后殖民和散居背景下，它将问为什么非线性叙事一直是这一时期艺术生产的一个特点。如果这些支离破碎的实验性形式是对西方宏大的进步叙事崩溃的回应，那么它们提供了什么样的抵抗或修正形式？在殖民时期、后殖民时期和后冷战时期，不同文化的相互作用日益增强，从中我们可以看到它们以何种方式出现？这种支离破碎的叙事如何在后殖民和散居的写作和表演中发挥作用？这些支离破碎的形式如何探索我们多元文化社会中相互竞争和冲突的叙事？该项目还将探讨对自我理解的改变在哪些方面导致了线性叙事的中断，特别是，破碎的叙事如何使人们从笛卡尔的精神/身体二元性转向对体现自我的理解，从而使身体的写作成为当代表演、小说和生活写作中的重要元素。此外，如果非线性叙事从传统权力等级的不稳定中出现，那么在写作和表演中对性别和性行为的问题有什么影响？该项目不会承担传统“文学”流派的独特身份，而是将所有形式的文学和表演作为一个连续的工作来提出这些问题。到目前为止，大多数对非线性叙事的研究都局限于其数字化发展，从技术变革的角度来看待它。虽然对这项研究及其影响保持警惕，但这个项目的重点是不同的，因为它集中在殖民后期和后殖民时期的断裂叙事与文化变化之间的关系，以及当代艺术实践中的跨文化和流散交流。我们的项目绝不是形式主义的：相反，它将询问在这些艺术实践中正在映射的深刻的社会，政治和观念变化，解决在当今文化多样化的社会中理解艺术在谈判社会变革中所扮演的角色的基本问题。该项目将深入研究三个领域：非洲/非洲流散表演，加勒比/加勒比流散生活写作，当代英国流散写作和表演中的性别和性行为。所采用的研究方法将多种多样，将传统的学术手段（如会议和研讨会）与创造性实践、戏剧、表演、阅读、音乐活动、电影、视频和数字艺术相结合。该项目将附属于两名博士生，一名研究非洲表演，另一名研究加勒比生活写作；届时将有两位艺术家驻场，每人为期三个月。金史密斯学院在创意写作和创新表演、批判性创意实践、社区艺术、城市研究和后殖民理论方面的优势，以及其强大的跨学科研究传统，使其成为该项目的理想场所。传播将采取各种形式，包括会议、研讨会和创意活动，以及出版书籍和期刊，以及对活动和表演进行录像和存档。我们的研究成果将会引起学者和有创造力的艺术家的兴趣。它将有助于理解后殖民和散居文学和表演，它们的演变和发展，以及对当代创作实践的性质和影响的评估。

项目成果

'Performative Interactions in African Theatre 3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa'

“非洲戏剧中的表演互动3：创造空间，重新思考非洲的戏剧和戏剧”

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Igweonu, K.

'Performative Interactions in African Theatre 1: Diaspora Representations and the Interweaving of Cultures'

“非洲剧院的表演互动 1：散居海外的代表和文化的交织”

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Igweonu, K.

'Imagism: Essays on its Initiation, Impact and Influences

《意象主义：论其起源、影响和影响》

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Carr, H.B.

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines - Volume II: North America 1894-1960

牛津现代主义杂志批判与文化史 - 第二卷：北美 1894-1960

• DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199545810.003.0003
• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: Carr H

The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 9

莎士比亚国际年鉴，9

• 发表时间: 2009
• 作者: Gordon, R. J.