The Poetics of Diplomacy: Poetry, Creative Short Prose and Diplomatic Discussions in Western Sahara and the Saharawi Diaspora

该项目有两个主要目标：第一，通过创建和促进利用记录、转录和翻译的撒哈拉诗歌和短文的多语种资源，促进保护濒危的撒哈拉文化遗产；第二，促进关于诗歌在外交中的作用以及如何通过诗歌交流对外交阴谋的看法的跨学科对话。该项目有四条探索路线：1)国际诗歌协会将探索文本(书面或口头诗歌和短的创造性散文)如何参与国际外交进程；2)除了文本本身，国际诗歌协会将询问这些文本如何成为撒哈拉人和其他读者或听众就外交问题进行讨论的跳板；3)国际诗歌协会将探索这些文本及其传播如何共同构成公共外交行为；4)国际诗歌协会将通过追溯历史上游牧民族之间诗意斗争的演变，以及当今数字世界中的诗歌外交交流，提供撒哈拉诗歌与外交接触的文化史。关于该项目的文化遗产部分，活动如下：1)国际诗歌协会将录制十二位撒哈拉诗人朗诵他们的三部作品(总共将录制36部作品)。她将记录四位用西班牙语创作的友谊一代诗人，他们大多生活在西班牙，四位居住在阿尔及利亚难民营/流亡国家的难民游牧诗人，以及四位以阿拉伯语和/或哈萨尼亚语创作的现代诗人，他们驻扎在被占领土或最近从那里流亡。她将在毛里塔尼亚的努瓦迪布记录来自后者的诗人，那里有一个庞大的流亡撒哈拉人社区，来自被占领土的撒哈拉人在那里度假。2)国际诗人协会还将对所有诗人进行半结构化采访。所有采访都将集中在诗人的生活史和他们的诗歌产出上。关于年长的游牧诗人，采访还将侧重于他们对诗歌战争史的了解，以及在部落之间的冲突中使用诗歌作为调解工具的情况。对西班牙和被占领土年轻一代诗人的采访将侧重于他们作为诗人在受众和影响方面的意图。所有采访将被转录并翻译成英语，以供出版。3)国际诗歌协会将在三场诗歌表演中进行参与者观察，并在三场表演中对观众进行半结构化访谈，三个实地考察地点各一名。这将得到数字民族志的补充，在他们的批准和同意下，PI将关注十名诗歌爱好者的社交媒体个人资料和评论。4)国际诗歌协会将对录制和转录的诗歌进行仔细阅读。5)国际诗社将与撒哈拉诗人兼翻译员远程合作，将哈桑尼亚语、阿拉伯语和西班牙语的诗歌和短文翻译成英文，准备翻译、诗歌录音和对诗人的采访，以便在数字收藏中存档(大英图书馆声音档案馆和撒哈拉国家档案馆)，并提供开放获取的在线选集。6)国际诗歌协会将在这项研究的基础上发表三篇期刊文章，阐明诗歌与外交之间的关系。这些成果将通过展示非洲裔拉美裔研究新工作的在线会议以及撒哈拉诗人参与英国各诗坛举办的在线阅读活动进一步传播。在线选集将包括用于促进在拉美裔研究课程上教授撒哈拉诗歌的开放式获取的在线教学材料。

This project has two overarching aims: firstly, to contribute to the preservation of endangered Saharawi cultural heritage by creating, and promoting engagement with, an accessible and multilingual resource of recorded, transcribed and translated Saharawi poetry and short creative prose; and secondly, to further interdisciplinary (Cultural Studies and International Relations) conversations on the role of poetry in diplomacy, and how perspectives on diplomatic intrigues are communicated through poetry. The project pursues four lines of exploration: 1) the PI will explore how the texts (written or spoken poetry and short creative prose) engage with the process of international diplomacy; 2) Beyond the texts themselves, the PI will ask how the texts act as a springboard for discussions among Saharawis, and other readers or listeners, on issues of diplomatic interest; 3) The PI will explore how the texts and their circulation together constitute an act of public diplomacy and 4) The PI will provide a cultural history of Saharawi poetry's engagements with diplomacy, by tracing the evolution of historical poetic battles between nomads, to today's poetic-diplomatic exchanges in a digital universe. With regards to the cultural heritage part of the project, activities are as follows: 1) The PI will record twelve Saharawi poets reciting three of their works (36 works will be recorded in total). She will record four 'Friendship Generation' poets, who compose in Spanish and mostly live in Spain, four refugee nomad-poets, who reside in the refugee camps/state-in-exile in Algeria, and four 'modern' poets composing in Arabic and/or Hassaniya, based in the occupied territory or recently exiled from there. She will record poets from the latter group in Nouadibou, Mauritania, where there is a large community of exiled Saharawis and where Saharawis from the occupied territory travel for holidays. 2) The PI will also conduct semi-structured interviews with all poets. All interviews will focus on the poet's life history and their poetic output. With regards to the older nomad-poets, interviews will also focus on their understanding of the history of poetic battles and the use of poetry in conflicts between tribes as a tool for mediation. Interviews with younger generations of poets in Spain and in the occupied territory will focus on their intentions, as poets, with regards to audience and impact. All interviews will be transcribed and translated into English, for publication. 3) The PI will conduct participant observation at three poetry performances, and semi-structured interviews with audience members at three performances, one in each of the three fieldwork locations. This will be complemented by a digital ethnography in which, with their approval and consent, the PI will follow the social media profiles and comments of ten poetry enthusiasts. 4) The PI will conduct a close reading of the recorded and transcribed poetry. 5) The PI will work remotely with Saharawi poet-translators to translate the poetry and short prose texts from Hassaniya, Arabic and Spanish into English, preparing the translations, poetry recordings and interviews with poets for archive in digital collections (the British Library Sounds Archive, and the Saharawi Republic's national archive), and for an open access, online anthology. 6) The PI will produce three journal articles based on the research, drawing out the relationship between poetry and diplomacy.The outputs will be further disseminated through an online conference that showcases new work in Afro-Hispanic Studies, and Saharawi poet participation at online readings hosted by various UK-based poetry circles. Online, open access pedagogical materials for promoting teaching of Saharawi poetry on Hispanic Studies courses will be included with the online anthology.