Performing Emotional Histories: Centenary Commemorations and Memories of the First World War.

表演情感历史：百年纪念和第一次世界大战的回忆。

• 批准号: 1964207
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1964207
• 关键词: Performing; Emotional; Histories; Centenary; Commemorations

One Hundred years on, the First World War continues to play a prominent role in British cultural memory. It was known as 'the war to end war' but the unexpected scale of causalities and the destruction of full-scale industrial warfare resulted in the events of 1914-18 becoming seared into the British popular memory. Representations of the war have shifted over time, but one of the dominant narratives since the late 1950s has been that of tragedy. In contrast with the popular memory of the Second World War this was not Britain's 'finest hour'; it was 'lions led by donkeys'. Despite various recent attempts to reconceptualise the war as a strategic military victory, the dominant perception is that Britain was drawn into a conflict for reasons most did not understand, where brave men were lead by incompetent officers, and many men were left with physical and mental scars. A turn toward affect within historiography, coupled with an interest in the psychological and affective representations of the First World War have produced a fertile atmosphere for new styles of commemorative activity and the exploration of new narratives. The commemorative activity surrounding the centenary of the First World War has included a significant amount of performance art-based commemoration that draws on elements of re-enactment (hereafter 'performative re-enactment'), and stimulates affective engagement with both performers and their audiences. While based in the study of history and memory, this research will take an interdisciplinary approach to performance-based commemorations of the First World War throughout the centenary years of 2014-2018. QuestionsAs the First World War moves out of living memory why has performative re-enactment become an increasingly popular mode of commemoration during the centenary years, and what is its contribution to the wider cultural memory of World War One?Has the wider cultural shift towards an emphasis on experience and emotion opened up new possibilities through which our understanding of the uses of the past in the present can be enhanced through performative re-enactment? What is the relationship between the individual subjective embodied experience of performative re-enactment and the transmission of collective memory?To what extent do performative re-enactments challenge, or conform to, the dominant cultural memories of the First World War, and what is the relationship between such performances and the wider debates surrounding the remembrance of the First World War?AimsTo explore the relationship between the embodied experiences of performative re-enactment as a mode commemoration, and the circulation of historical knowledge and cultural memory between participants and audiences during the centenary years of 2014-2018. To determine whether performative re-enactments can be viewed as an attempt to inscribe past events from communicative memory into cultural memory, or, alternatively put, as a way of trying to maintain the intimate bonds of communicative memory, lost as generations die out.

一百年过去了，第一次世界大战继续在英国的文化记忆中扮演着重要的角色。这场战争被称为结束战争，但意外的伤亡规模和全面工业战争的破坏导致了1914-18年的事件在英国人的记忆中烙印着。随着时间的推移，对战争的描述发生了变化，但自20世纪50年代末以来，占主导地位的叙事之一就是悲剧。与人们对第二次世界大战的普遍记忆形成鲜明对比的是，这并不是英国最美好的时光，而是“驴牵狮子”。尽管最近各方试图将这场战争重新定义为一场战略军事胜利，但主流看法是，英国被卷入一场冲突的原因大多数人都不理解，勇敢的人由不称职的军官领导，许多人在身体和精神上都留下了伤痕。在史学中转向情感，再加上对第一次世界大战的心理和情感表现的兴趣，为新的纪念活动风格和新叙事的探索创造了肥沃的氛围。围绕第一次世界大战一百周年的纪念活动包括大量以表演艺术为基础的纪念活动，利用重演的元素(以下称为表演重演)，并刺激表演者和观众的情感参与。在研究历史和记忆的同时，这项研究将采用跨学科的方法，在2014-2018年的百年纪念活动中以表演为基础纪念第一次世界大战。问题随着第一次世界大战逐渐走出人们的记忆，为什么表演重演在百年间成为一种越来越受欢迎的纪念方式，它对一战更广泛的文化记忆有什么贡献？更广泛的文化转向强调体验和情感是否打开了新的可能性，通过表演重演可以增强我们对过去在现在的用途的理解？表演重演的个人主观体验与集体记忆的传递之间是什么关系？表演重演在多大程度上挑战或符合第一次世界大战的主流文化记忆？表演与围绕第一次世界大战记忆的更广泛辩论之间有什么关系？旨在探索表演重演体验作为一种纪念模式与2014-2018年百年期间参与者和观众之间历史知识和文化记忆的循环之间的关系。为了确定表演重演是否可以被视为试图将过去的事件从沟通记忆中记录到文化记忆中，或者换言之，作为一种试图维持沟通记忆的亲密纽带的方式，这种联系随着几代人的消亡而消失。