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Our Bondage and Our Freedom: Struggles for Liberty in the Lives and Works of Frederick Douglass and His Family (1818-1920)

我们的束缚和我们的自由：弗雷德里克·道格拉斯及其家人的生活和作品中争取自由的斗争（1818-1920）

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R007195/1
负责人：
Celeste-Marie Bernier
金额：
$ 25.75万
依托单位：
University of Edinburgh
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR007195%2F1
关键词：
Our Bondage Freedom Struggles Liberty

项目摘要

Working to develop an alternative interdisciplinary framework, this project investigates the legendary example of Frederick Douglass as a renowned formerly enslaved and self-emancipated liberator in conjunction with the under-researched biographies and writings authored by his daughters and sons: Rosetta, Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., Charles Remond and Annie Douglass. By reinterpreting the writings of the mythologised figure of Frederick Douglass within the context of his neglected family members, it is possible to reconceptualise dominant scholarly paradigms according to which the iconic and exceptional few are theorised over and above the individual and invisibilised many when it comes to black lives. An interdisciplinary project drawing together early, mid and senior career academics, activists, archivists and artists and aimed at specialist and general audiences, this proposed research consists of a literary biography, a family biography/scholarly anthology, a UK exhibition, 2 US companion exhibits, guided exhibition and Edinburgh black history city tours, a public educational programme, an academic conference, a US workshop on engaged scholarship, 2 refereed journal special issues, a commemorative plaque, an exhibition guide and 4 educational learning guides and online resources for use in universities, schools, adult-learning environments and by the general public. At the heart of this project is the conviction that the only way in which to do justice to the under-researched writings and artworks produced by black women, children and men bought and sold into transatlantic slavery, and for whom the written word and the image remained contested terrain, is to develop a cross-, multi- and inter- disciplinary scholarly practice. Dominant theoretical models do not apply. Researchers must develop alternative analytical approaches in order to examine black authored literary and visual arts traditions forged in the interstices of legal, physical, cultural, historical, psychological and imaginative subjugation. Just as black authors and artists developed self-reflexively experimental textual and visual practices as they took on the burden of representation by acknowledging that, as Douglass insisted, "language has no power" and "images are mute" when faced with the impossibility of representing the tragedies of chattel slavery and its traumatising legacies, we as scholars must take on the burden of interpretation by developing a new theoretical language. I take the view that we are not there yet by arguing for the intellectual and political necessity of working with interdisciplinary methodologies within Black Studies, African Diasporic Studies, Slavery Studies, American Studies, Memory Studies and Social Justice Studies as the only way in which to investigate the otherwise missing historical, social, cultural, philosophical, ideological, political, psychological and aesthetic contexts of black lives. I take inspiration from Audre Lorde to argue that an interdisciplinary examination of black literary and visual arts traditions establishes that it is not the "master's tools" but the "slaves' tools" that succeed in "dismantling" the "master's house." During the two-hundred year anniversary of his birth in 2018 and in a Black Lives Matter era, the Douglass needed now is no representative self-made man but a fallible, mortal individual. It was not only Douglass but his family members who despaired of "committing to paper the pain" they experienced as the "wounds upon the soul" defied textual or visual expression. The onus is on academics, archivists, artists and activists to harness every intellectual tool available in order to tell the story not only of the enslaved but of black women and men experiencing freedoms that were in name only in a post-emancipation era. For Douglass' rallying cry, "My Bondage and My Freedom" it is possible to read: "Our Bondage and Our Freedom."

该项目致力于开发一个替代的跨学科框架，调查弗雷德里克·道格拉斯作为一个著名的前奴役和自我解放的解放者的传奇例子，以及他的女儿和儿子撰写的研究不足的传记和著作：罗塞塔，刘易斯亨利，小弗雷德里克，查尔斯·雷蒙德和安妮·道格拉斯通过重新解释弗雷德里克·道格拉斯的神话人物的著作，在他被忽视的家庭成员的背景下，有可能重新概念化占主导地位的学术范式，根据这种范式，当涉及到黑人生活时，标志性的和特殊的少数人被理论化，凌驾于个人之上，而无形化了许多人。一个跨学科的项目，吸引了早期，中期和高级职业学者，活动家，档案管理员和艺术家，针对专业和普通观众，这项拟议的研究包括文学传记，家庭传记/学术选集，英国展览，2个美国同伴展览，导游展览和爱丁堡黑人历史城市图尔斯，公共教育计划，学术会议，一个关于参与式奖学金的美国讲习班、2份经过评审的期刊特刊、一块纪念牌匾、一份展览指南和4份教育学习指南以及供大学、中小学、成人学习环境和公众使用的在线资源。该项目的核心是坚信，要公正对待被买卖成为跨大西洋奴隶的黑人妇女、儿童和男子所创作的研究不足的著作和艺术品，对他们来说，书面文字和图像仍然是有争议的领域，唯一的办法是发展一种跨学科、多学科和跨学科的学术实践。主流理论模型不适用。研究人员必须开发替代的分析方法，以检查黑人创作的文学和视觉艺术传统中锻造的间隙法律的，物理，文化，历史，心理和想象力的征服。正如黑人作家和艺术家发展自我反思的实验文本和视觉实践，因为他们承担了代表的负担，承认，正如道格拉斯坚持的那样，“语言没有力量”和“图像是无声的”，当面对不可能代表奴隶制的悲剧及其创伤遗产时，我们作为学者必须通过发展一种新的理论语言来承担解释的负担。我认为，我们还没有通过争论黑人研究，非洲移民研究，奴隶制研究，美国研究，记忆研究和社会正义研究中的跨学科方法的知识和政治必要性，作为调查黑人生活的历史，社会，文化，哲学，意识形态，政治，心理和美学背景的唯一途径。我从奥德·洛德那里得到灵感，认为对黑人文学和视觉艺术传统的跨学科研究表明，成功地“拆除”“主人的房子”的不是“主人的工具”，而是“奴隶的工具”。在2018年他诞辰200周年之际，在一个“黑人的命也是命”的时代，道格拉斯现在需要的不是一个有代表性的白手起家的人，而是一个容易犯错的、会死的人。不仅是道格拉斯，他的家人也对他们所经历的“痛苦”感到绝望，因为“灵魂上的伤口”无视文本或视觉表达。学者、档案管理员、艺术家和活动家有责任利用一切可用的知识工具，不仅讲述被奴役者的故事，而且讲述黑人妇女和男子经历解放后时代名存实亡的自由的故事。道格拉斯的战斗口号“我的束缚和我的自由”可以读成：“我们的束缚和我们的自由。"