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Decolonizing Voices: World Literature and Broadcast Culture at the End of Empire

非殖民化的声音：帝国末期的世界文学与广播文化

基本信息

批准号：
AH/K007491/1
负责人：
Michael Niblett
金额：
$ 25.1万
依托单位：
University of Warwick
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK007491%2F1
关键词：
Decolonizing Voices World Literature Broadcast

项目摘要

"Decolonizing Voices" is a research project that investigates the interconnected history of radio broadcasting and literary production across three continents in the period 1945-1968. The study employs a mixture of scholarly approaches, including literary criticism, global book history, biographical writing and cultural studies. Focusing on the loosely articulated networks of literary and cultural production in the Anglophone Caribbean, the work of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation in Accra, and the mediating role played by the BBC Colonial Service, we will examine the involvement of these networks and institutions in shaping the stylistic and political contours of emerging world literatures in the twentieth century. The project aims to map out how cultural forms such as novels, poems, and short stories circulate through publishing and media channels across the globe, and the ways in which this circulation is rendered highly uneven by unequal international power relations, which are often the legacy of colonialism and imperialism. These inequalities are frequently manifested in the pressures placed on writers and artists from colonized and formerly colonized countries by publishing houses, broadcast institutions, and market forces.The project will be based around archival research into material in the Caribbean, the UK, and West Africa, much of which is relatively unexplored. This material includes transcripts, letters, and programme information relating to various radio series broadcast in the Caribbean and Ghana in the 1940s and 1950s, including 'Caribbean Voices' and 'West African Voices'. These showcased the work of authors from those regions and were important in providing access for a wider public to discussions about literary, cultural and political issues during an era in which colonial rule was ending and the prospect of national independence was on the horizon. The project is unique in that it will bring together archival material currently scattered across three continents, examining this through a global optic attentive to the uneven circulation of cultural forms.The project will make use of exclusive access to the papers, diaries, and letters of the BBC producer Henry Swanzy. Swanzy's career is indicative of the connections that existed between literary and broadcast histories across the three continents, having produced 'Caribbean Voices' between 1946-54, before becoming Head of Programmes for the Gold Coast Broadcasting System in Accra in 1954. Moreover, Swanzy's writings in his diaries provide a wealth of stories about working life both at the BBC and abroad, while also registering key cultural trends and the social and political upheavals of the post-war era. One of the principal aims of the project is to investigate how the BBC was enmeshed in the political discussions over race and immigration at the time."Decolonizing Voices" will produce a series of outputs both for an academic and a wider audience, including a popular critical edition of Swanzy's memoirs, as well as scholarly writings (articles, a short monograph) on the interconnections between literary and broadcast histories informed by recent debates on world literature and the politics of literary value. Another key output of the project will be a radio programme to be broadcast on the BBC World Service and stations in the Caribbean and Ghana. The programme will examine the importance of the historical relationships between media institutions, programme makers, and literary magazine series in the era of decolonization. Our programme, in revisiting these relationships, will help to inform and enhance discussions over the function and future of public service broadcasting in a "globalized age".In these ways, the "Decolonizing Voices" project will make a vital contribution to an understanding of the relationships between literary production, the role of broadcasting as a medium of cultural expression, and the legacies of empire.

“非殖民化的声音”是一个研究项目，调查1945-1968年期间三大洲无线电广播和文学创作的相互关联的历史。这项研究采用了多种学术方法，包括文学批评、全球图书史、传记写作和文化研究。重点放在松散的文学和文化生产网络在英语加勒比地区，加纳广播公司在阿克拉的工作，以及英国广播公司殖民地服务所发挥的调解作用，我们将研究这些网络和机构在塑造风格和政治轮廓的新兴世界文学在二十世纪的参与。该项目旨在绘制出小说、诗歌和短篇小说等文化形式是如何通过出版和媒体渠道在地球仪上传播的，以及这种传播是如何因不平等的国际权力关系而变得高度不平衡的，这种关系往往是殖民主义和帝国主义的遗产。这些不平等经常表现在出版社、广播机构和市场力量对来自殖民地和前殖民地国家的作家和艺术家施加的压力上。该项目将基于对加勒比海、英国和西非材料的档案研究，其中大部分相对未开发。这些材料包括1940年代和1950年代在加勒比和加纳广播的各种广播系列节目的文字记录、信件和节目资料，包括“加勒比之声”和“西非之声”。这些展览展示了来自这些地区的作家的作品，对于在殖民统治即将结束、民族独立的前景即将出现的时代，让更广泛的公众有机会讨论文学、文化和政治问题，具有重要意义。该项目的独特之处在于，它将汇集目前分散在三大洲的档案材料，通过关注文化形式不平衡流通的全球视角来审视这一点。该项目将利用BBC制片人亨利·斯旺齐的独家文件、日记和信件。斯万齐的职业生涯表明了文学和广播历史之间存在的联系，在1946年至1954年之间制作了“加勒比之声”，1954年成为阿克拉黄金海岸广播系统的节目负责人。此外，Swanzy在日记中的作品提供了大量关于BBC和国外工作生活的故事，同时也记录了战后时代的主要文化趋势和社会政治动荡。该项目的主要目的之一是调查英国广播公司是如何卷入当时关于种族和移民的政治讨论的。“非殖民化的声音”将产生一系列的输出都为学术和更广泛的观众，包括斯旺兹的回忆录的流行的批判版，以及学术著作（文章，一个简短的专着）之间的相互联系的文学和广播的历史，通过最近的辩论对世界文学和文学价值的政治通知。该项目的另一项主要产出是将在英国广播公司世界服务台以及加勒比和加纳的电台上播放的一个无线电节目。该节目将探讨非殖民化时代媒体机构、节目制作者和文学杂志系列之间历史关系的重要性。我们的节目通过重新审视这些关系，将有助于提供信息和加强关于“全球化时代”公共广播服务的功能和未来的讨论，通过这些方式，“非殖民化的声音”项目将为理解文学创作、广播作为文化表达媒介的作用和帝国遗产之间的关系作出重要贡献。