Writing women back in: Rethinking historical erasure in the story of the Ashmolean

重新书写女性：重新思考阿什莫林故事中的历史抹除

• 批准号: 2277360
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 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-2277360
• 关键词: Writing; women; back; Rethinking; historical

My practice-based research for the Creative and Critical Writing PhD programme at UEA will be a project in two parts. The creative element will consist of a novel, The Ark, based on the true story of the creation of the Ashmolean museum at Oxford in the late seventeenth century. The novel will be told from the perspective of a woman, Hester Tradescant, who drowned herself following her family's loss of the founding collection to Elias Ashmole, but who has so far been obscured from the museum's official narrative. The critical essay will explore the significance of restoring a hidden voice to the history of a well-established institution, suggesting it has the potential to disrupt our understanding of the historical record. Can it be authoritative if it does not represent the varied voices and experiences that constitute it? And what does this mean for public institutions - museums, universities - who in significant ways are in charge of communicating the past to the general public? I will suggest that writing such accounts is an important act in creating a new, inclusive historical record, demonstrating how multi-faceted influences produce human actions and decisions.

我在东安格利亚大学的创意与批判性写作博士项目的实践研究将分为两个部分。创意元素将包括一部小说《方舟》（The Ark），改编自17世纪末牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆（Ashmolean museum）创建的真实故事。这部小说将从一个名叫海丝特·特拉德桑特（Hester tradesant）的女人的视角来讲述，她在家里的创始收藏品被埃利亚斯·阿什莫尔（Elias Ashmole）偷走后，她淹死了自己，但到目前为止，她还没有出现在博物馆的官方叙述中。这篇评论文章将探讨为一个成熟机构的历史恢复一个隐藏的声音的重要性，表明它有可能破坏我们对历史记录的理解。如果它不代表构成它的各种声音和经验，它还能具有权威性吗？这对博物馆、大学等公共机构意味着什么？这些机构在很大程度上负责向公众传播过去。我认为，写这样的记录是创造一个新的、包容性的历史记录的重要行为，它展示了多方面的影响如何产生人类的行为和决定。