Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson and 'Tusitala': Ethnography and the Politics of Genre

罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森和“图西塔拉”的奇怪案例：民族志和流派政治

• 批准号: 2289549
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 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-2289549
• 关键词: Strange; Case; Robert; Louis; Stevenson

My PhD will focus on the politics of genre in Robert Louis Stevenson's writing and address the prevailing critical tendency to view his pre-Pacific and Pacific work as discrete projects with separate political agendas and styles. It will recognise that a consistent 'ethnographic concern' can be traced not only through the Pacific texts but also through Stevenson's earlier, better known writing, by identifying the influence of emerging 'scientific' modes of understanding cultural and racial difference such as ethnography and comparative anthropology. It will explore how the implicit, often subversive, politics that were inherent to this approach allow for a re-evaluation of genre in Stevenson's early writing, and more broadly of genre at the fin-de-siècle. Furthermore, it will explore how the Pacific plays a vital role in the transformation of genre across Stevenson's writing, and look at how the Pacific influences the later works beyond merely the ethnographic. My project will seek to establish new connections between anthropology, literature and heritage and to present these in public facing ways by exploring the role of literature in colonial encounters that saw Pacific cultural artefacts traverse across the sea to Western museums - as well as explore how literature (for instance, Stevenson's Pacific folklore tales which focus on local artefacts and spiritual customs) display non-Western objects descriptively rather than literally.

我的博士学位将专注于罗伯特·路易斯史蒂文森的写作中的体裁政治，并解决普遍的批评倾向，即将他的前太平洋和太平洋工作视为具有独立政治议程和风格的独立项目。它将认识到，一个一致的“民族志关注”可以追溯到不仅通过太平洋文本，但也通过史蒂文森的早期，更好地了解写作，通过确定新兴的“科学”模式的影响，理解文化和种族差异，如民族志和比较人类学。它将探讨如何隐含的，往往是颠覆性的，这种方法所固有的政治允许重新评估类型在史蒂文森的早期写作，更广泛的类型在世纪末。此外，本研究亦将探讨太平洋地区如何在史蒂文森作品的体裁转换中扮演重要角色，以及太平洋地区如何超越人种志的层面影响到后来的作品。我的项目将寻求在人类学、文学和遗产之间建立新的联系，并通过探索文学在殖民遭遇中的作用，以面向公众的方式呈现这些联系，这些殖民遭遇见证了太平洋文化艺术品漂洋过海来到西方博物馆，并探索文学如何（例如，史蒂文森的太平洋民间传说故事（侧重于当地的手工艺品和精神习俗）展示非西方的对象，而不是字面上。