Remediating Stevenson: Decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction through Graphic Adaptation, Arts Education and Community Engagement

补救史蒂文森：通过图形改编、艺术教育和社区参与使罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的太平洋小说去殖民化

• 批准号: AH/W007010/1
• 负责人: Michelle Keown
• 金额: $ 103.13万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW007010%2F1
• 关键词: Remediating; Stevenson; Decolonising; Robert; Louis

This interdisciplinary project explores the legacies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific writing, investigating the relevance of his work to contemporary readers in Samoa, Scotland and Hawai'i, and producing new art and poetry inspired by the three short stories published in Stevenson's 1893 collection Island Nights' Entertainments. These include 'The Bottle Imp' and 'The Isle of Voices' - set in Hawai'i - and 'The Beach of Falesá', rooted in Stevenson's experience of Samoan culture.Given that educational institutions throughout the world are actively engaged in decolonising their curricula, Stevenson's work and legacy present a particularly valuable focus of inquiry. Stevenson became actively involved in supporting Samoan and Hawaiian indigenous sovereignty movements at a crucial period just before these islands were annexed by the US and Germany, and yet his Pacific fiction, while iconoclastic in featuring indigenous protagonists with considerable agency and dignity, and offering a critical proto-modernist perspective on western imperialism, still upholds many of the colonial stereotypes typical of fin-de-siecle western literature. This project is unique, in terms of:(a) developing a set of creative outputs and teaching resources emphasising the relevance of Stevenson's Pacific corpus to explorations of pressing contemporary issues such as globalisation, the transnational, climate change and sustainability,(b) exploring the rich and complex legacies that Stevenson's Pacific writing, and his historic presence in Hawai'i and Samoa, has left for contemporary Pacific communities, and (c) producing the first ever graphic adaptation of the three Island Nights' Entertainments stories, translated into Samoan and Hawaiian. Other outputs include new poetry by indigenous authors; a documentary film; an exhibition; a website; and various scholarly publications. The project contains three major disciplinary strands, focused around visual arts-based practice and research; literary/adaptation studies; and arts education/pedagogy. These inform various project activities and methods, including:1) On-location and archival research into the environments, cultures and histories depicted in Stevenson's Pacific fiction, and the contexts in which his work was originally published and illustrated, so that the adaptation process takes due account of the fact that Stevenson's Pacific writing was inflected by a desire to develop a literary realism attuned to meticulous observations of Pacific cultures and places also documented in his Pacific travel writing, photography and painting2) In recognition of Stevenson's own respect for Pacific traditions of cross-cultural reciprocity (informing his practice of sharing Scottish/European folk tales in exchange for narratives from indigenous Pacific interlocutors, and blending European and Pacific storytelling traditions in his writing), indigenous Pacific communities will be involved in every stage of our creative and research processes, using Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methodologies, including: (i) semi-structured interviews exploring what Stevenson means to contemporary Pacific communities, as well as project artists/poets (ii) participatory arts workshops (run by project artists/poets in Samoa, Hawai'i and Scotland) enabling participants to produce an illustrated piece of creative writing engaging with Stevenson's literary legacy and/or the Pacific places/cultures depicted in his fiction (iii) involving Samoan interns in the making of a documentary film which will draw upon indigenous methodologies3) Consultations with educators in Samoa, Hawai'i and Scotland that will inform the production of teaching resource packs, attuned to local pedagogical needs and appropriate age groups, to accompany our graphic novel. Partnerships with local educational organisations will enable us to pursue options for our resources to be adopted at national curricular level.

这个跨学科的项目探讨了罗伯特·路易斯史蒂文森的太平洋写作的遗产，调查他的工作在萨摩亚，苏格兰和夏威夷的当代读者的相关性，并产生新的艺术和诗歌的灵感来自于史蒂文森的1893年收集岛之夜'娱乐发表的三个短篇小说。这些作品包括以夏威夷为背景的《瓶子小恶魔》、《声音之岛》，以及植根于史蒂文森对萨摩亚文化体验的《法莱萨的海滩》。鉴于世界各地的教育机构都在积极致力于课程的非殖民化，史蒂文森的作品和遗产成为一个特别有价值的研究焦点。史蒂文森积极参与支持萨摩亚和夏威夷土著主权运动，就在这些岛屿被美国和德国吞并之前的关键时期，然而他的太平洋小说，虽然以相当大的力量和尊严描绘土著主角，并提供了一个批判的原始现代主义视角，仍然坚持许多典型的世纪末西方文学的殖民刻板印象。这个项目在以下方面是独一无二的：（a）开发一套创造性的产出和教学资源，强调史蒂文森的太平洋语料库与探索全球化、跨国、气候变化和可持续性等紧迫的当代问题的相关性，（B）探索史蒂文森的太平洋写作及其在夏威夷和萨摩亚的历史性存在给当代太平洋社区留下的丰富而复杂的遗产，以及（c）制作有史以来第一部改编自三个岛屿之夜娱乐故事的图形，翻译成萨摩亚语和夏威夷语。其他产出包括土著作家的新诗、一部纪录片、一个展览、一个网站和各种学术出版物。该项目包含三个主要学科，重点围绕视觉艺术为基础的实践和研究;文学/适应研究;和艺术教育/教育学。这些信息为各种项目活动和方法提供了信息，包括：1）对史蒂文森太平洋小说中描绘的环境、文化和历史进行现场和档案研究，以及他的作品最初出版和插图的背景，以便改编过程适当考虑到这样一个事实：史蒂文森的太平洋写作受到了发展文学现实主义的愿望的影响，这种现实主义与对太平洋文化和地方的细致观察相适应，也记录在他的太平洋旅行写作中，摄影和绘画2）为了表彰史蒂文森本人对太平洋地区跨文化互惠传统的尊重（告知他分享苏格兰/欧洲民间故事的做法，以换取土著太平洋对话者的叙述，并在他的写作中融合欧洲和太平洋讲故事的传统），土著太平洋社区将参与我们的创作和研究过程的每一个阶段，使用基于社区的前瞻性研究（CBPR）方法，包括：（i）半结构化访谈，探讨史蒂文森对当代太平洋社区以及项目艺术家/诗人的意义（由萨摩亚的项目艺术家/诗人管理，夏威夷和苏格兰），使参与者能够产生一个插图的创意写作与史蒂文森的文学遗产和/或太平洋地区/（iii）让萨摩亚实习生参与制作一部纪录片，这部纪录片将借鉴土著方法; 3）与萨摩亚、夏威夷和苏格兰的教育工作者进行磋商，这将为制作教学资源包提供信息，这些资源包将适应当地教学需要和适当的年龄组，以配合我们的图画小说。与当地教育机构的合作伙伴关系将使我们能够寻求我们的资源在国家课程水平上采用的选择。