Women's Contemporary Experimental Life Writing

女性当代实验生活写作

• 批准号: 2265926
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2265926
• 关键词: Women; Contemporary; Experimental; Life; Writing

My thesis will examine what I term 'co-construction', a bricolage technique introducing theory, multimedia, and secondary references, in women's contemporary life writing. I will argue that co-construction is used by contemporary authors forming a new canon, proliferating multi-farious conceptions of female identity and producing a truth effect previously unavailable to marginalised women. It will focus upon the inclusion of archival ephemera as key to the technique and the influence of technology in extending the potential for these referential acts and expanding participation. It will crucially interrogate the invalidation of this writing through the term 'oversharing,' a misogynistic expression connoting inappropriate female accounts of personal experience, and the enduring grand narratives these subjects are read against. Key research questions:- How does co-construction produce 'believable subjects'?- How is new technology creating the conditions for co-construction? - Why is co-construction particular to subjects identifying as women?- Which subjects remain beyond the margins of representation in this movement?- How significant are counters like oversharing in the curtailment of previously unrepresented identity categories?My primary authors will be: graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel, memoirist Maggie Nelson, blogger Jackie Wang and auto-fictional novelist Chris Kraus. Each author is significant for unconventional presentations of female subjects, intersecting with race, sexuality, aging, gender, and mental illness. Together they provide culturally significant American representations of experimental forms that produce 'believable subjects' from outsider positions, creating a coherent literary movement. I will analyse them through close readings and in light of intersectional feminist theory. My research will build on recent studies in life writing, alongside subversive theories of truth. Writers on co-construction and oversharing are emerging and span concepts of gestural online self-presentations, and collage providing double meaning through referential origin and additional new use. I use 'co-construction' to provide an umbrella term for these gestural and collage techniques as a narrative device specific to my identified movement. Identity will be read as self-constituting through discourse and temporal and cultural conceptions of truth, with representations formed of performative acts displayed in co-construction. Feminist and digital theory will also be considered alongside female-centric technologically driven populist movements gaining traction via co-construction, such as #MeToo and Everyday Sexism.

我的论文将探讨我所称的“共同建构”，一种在女性当代生活写作中引入理论、多媒体和次级参考的拼贴技术。我会认为，共同建设是由当代作家形成一个新的佳能，扩散的女性身份的多种多样的概念，并产生以前无法边缘化的妇女的真相效果。它将侧重于包括档案蜉蝣作为关键的技术和技术的影响，在扩大这些参考行为的潜力和扩大参与。它将通过“过度分享”一词来质疑这种写作的无效性，这是一种厌恶女性的表达方式，意味着对个人经历的不恰当的女性叙述，以及这些主题被阅读的持久的宏大叙事。关键研究问题：-共建如何产生“可信的主体”？-新技术如何为共建创造条件？- 为什么共建特别针对女性主体？在这场运动中，哪些主题仍然处于代表性的边缘之外？在削减以前没有代表性的身份类别方面，像过度分享这样的计数器有多重要？我的主要作者将是：图画回忆录作者艾莉森·贝克德尔，回忆录作者玛吉·纳尔逊，博客作者杰基·王和小说家克里斯·克劳斯。每一位作者都对女性主题的非传统呈现具有重要意义，与种族，性，衰老，性别和精神疾病交叉。他们共同提供了具有文化意义的美国实验形式的代表，从局外人的立场产生“可信的主题”，创造了一个连贯的文学运动。我将通过细读和交叉的女权主义理论来分析它们。我的研究将建立在最近的生活写作研究的基础上，以及颠覆性的真理理论。关于共同建构和过度分享的作家正在出现，他们跨越了姿势在线自我展示的概念，拼贴通过参考来源和额外的新用途提供了双重意义。我用“共同建构”来为这些手势和拼贴技巧提供一个总括性的术语，作为我所确定的运动的特定叙事手段。身份将被解读为通过话语和真理的时间和文化概念的自我构成，与表现行为形成的表征显示在共同建设。女权主义和数字理论也将与以女性为中心的技术驱动的民粹主义运动一起被考虑，这些运动通过共同建设获得牵引力，例如#MeToo和日常性别歧视。