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Salt Babies: Narrating Maternity in Russian and Comparative Literature

盐婴儿：俄罗斯文学和比较文学中的母性叙事

基本信息

批准号：
AH/V013319/1
负责人：
Muireann Maguire
金额：
$ 4.41万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV013319%2F1
关键词：
Salt Babies Narrating Maternity Russian

项目摘要

Salt Babies: Narrating Maternity in Slavic and Comparative Literature is a planned research network which will connect Slavic Studies scholars, active in Maternal Studies, with wider disciplinary fields. Through two academic conferences and three public seminars held over nine months in Lithuania and the UK, complemented by a range of related events and publications, we shall interrogate received understandings of maternal experience and behaviour, while re-opening dialogue about how contemporary literatures and cultures reflect motherhood. As the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator share expertise in Slavic literature, literary and cinematic culture are the main foci of our research questions; additionally, this approach enables our network to address the long-term marginalization of Maternal Studies within Slavic Studies. Our title "Salt Babies" derives from Russian author Isaak Babel's 1926 short story "Salt", an account (set during the Russian Civil War) of a woman who persuades Cossack soldiers to let her ride their train by pretending to nurse an infant. As they venerate nursing mothers, the soldiers let her travel unmolested; but when her unnaturally peaceful "baby" is exposed as a sack of smuggled salt, they fling her off the train and shoot her. Our title also references Anne Fine's influential children's novel "Flour Babies" (1992), in which a class of disruptive boys learn to model good parental practice by nurturing bags of flour for two weeks. Both stories show how "good", nurturing maternal behaviour is culturally enshrined in their respective contexts; but, by also demonstrating that maternal behaviour can be faked, they expose the vulnerability and fluidity of our ideals of motherhood. This inspires the network's key questions:1. How do cultural (primarily, but not exclusively, literary) representations of motherhood differ between former Soviet nations and the West? How does the public perception of motherhood differ?2. How do methodological approaches to Maternal Studies, especially to maternal fictions, differ between Slavic Studies and other disciplinary fields?3. How can we use translated maternal fictions effectively to engage the wider public in reflection on maternal experience?The opening two-day academic symposium at the Co-Investigator's institution (Vilnius University, Lithuania), will survey the state of our field, uniting Slavic Studies scholars from different disciplines - sociology, history, literature - in panels chaired by established non-Slavist Maternal Studies scholars, who will later act as mentors for the network's Slavist researchers and as internal reviewers for our outputs. Connections created between Slavists and leading scholars in the wider field of Maternal Studies will stimulate interdisciplinary knowledge exchange within Slavic Maternal Studies, which we will disseminate through (1) a follow-up workshop at the Devon and Exeter Institution (DEI, Exeter) where network members will present and discuss new research and (2) a special Slavic writing-focused issue of the peer-reviewed journal "Studies in the Maternal" which will publish this research, and ultimately an edited volume. "Salt Babies" thus consolidates and extends the work of previous AHRC-funded networks on European motherhood.Three themed public seminars, challenging the prevailing culture of silence around (1) breastfeeding; (2) infant loss; (3) adoption and fostering, are planned for UEA, Norwich; Exeter's former maternity hospital (Poltimore House); and Pasaka Cinema (Vilnius, Lithuania), respectively. Each seminar will link to a relevant Slavic literary/cinematic text; we will invite authors/directors, scholars, and representatives from parental support organizations to lead audience discussion. We will also curate two public exhibitions on maternal experience (a photographic study of working motherhood at Exeter University, and a display about Devon's historical maternity provision at the DEI).

盐宝宝：在斯拉夫语和比较文学中叙述母性是一个计划中的研究网络，它将连接斯拉夫语研究学者，活跃在母性研究中，具有更广泛的学科领域。通过在立陶宛和英国举行的为期九个月的两次学术会议和三次公开研讨会，以及一系列相关活动和出版物，我们将询问对母亲经验和行为的理解，同时重新开启关于当代文学和文化如何反映母性的对话。由于首席研究员和共同研究员分享斯拉夫文学，文学和电影文化的专业知识是我们研究问题的主要焦点;此外，这种方法使我们的网络能够解决斯拉夫研究中孕产妇研究的长期边缘化问题。我们的标题“盐婴儿”来自俄罗斯作家伊萨克·巴贝尔1926年的短篇小说“盐”，一个女人谁说服哥萨克士兵让她坐火车假装护士一个婴儿的帐户（设置在俄罗斯内战期间）。士兵们尊敬哺乳期的母亲，所以让她在旅途中不受骚扰;但当她那异常平静的“婴儿”被发现是一袋走私盐时，他们把她从火车上扔了下来，并开枪打死了她。我们的标题也引用了安妮·费恩（Anne Fine）1992年的著名儿童小说《面粉宝宝》（Flour Babies），在这部小说中，一群捣乱的男孩学习如何通过喂养一袋袋面粉来树立良好的父母行为榜样。这两个故事都表明，在各自的文化背景下，“良好”的、养育子女的母性行为是多么神圣;但是，通过证明母性行为可以伪造，它们暴露了我们母性理想的脆弱性和流动性。这激发了网络的关键问题：1。前苏联国家和西方国家对母性的文化（主要是但不完全是文学）表述有何不同？公众对母性的看法有何不同？2.斯拉夫研究和其他学科领域的研究方法有何不同？3.我们如何有效地利用翻译后的母性小说来让更广泛的公众参与对母性经历的反思？为期两天的学术研讨会在共同研究者的机构（维尔纽斯大学，立陶宛）开幕，将调查我们的领域的状态，团结来自不同学科的斯拉夫研究学者-社会学，历史，文学-在由既定的非斯拉夫产妇研究学者主持的小组中，他们后来将担任网络的斯拉夫研究人员的导师，并作为我们输出的内部评审员。斯拉夫人和产妇研究领域的主要学者之间建立的联系将促进斯拉夫产妇研究领域的跨学科知识交流，我们将通过以下方式传播：（1）在德文郡和埃克塞特研究所举办后续讲习班（DEI，埃克塞特），网络成员将介绍和讨论新的研究和（2）一个特殊的斯拉夫写作为重点的问题，同行评审的杂志“研究在产妇”，这将出版这项研究，并最终编辑卷。计划分别在诺里奇东英吉利大学、埃克塞特的前妇产医院（Pollinghouse）和Pasaka电影院（立陶宛维尔纽斯）举办三次主题公开研讨会，挑战围绕（1）母乳喂养、（2）婴儿丢失、（3）收养和寄养的普遍沉默文化。每个研讨会将链接到相关的斯拉夫文学/电影文本;我们将邀请作者/导演，学者和家长支持组织的代表带领观众讨论。我们还将策划两个关于母亲经验的公共展览（埃克塞特大学工作母亲的摄影研究，以及DEI关于德文郡历史生育规定的展示）。